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Madden 12 Promo Video Spoils the Bills’ New Uniform Surprise
A teaser trailer for EA Sports’ Madden 12 shows off the game’s unparalleled eye for detail, right down to the new uniforms the Buffalo Bills weren’t quite ready to show the world. ESPN has confirmed with sources within the National Football League that the Bills uniforms seen in a teaser trailer briefly available last night…
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World Of Warcraft‘s Rise of the Zandalari Patch Feeds The Trolls
The Zandalari tribe once sided with the Alliance and Horde against their troll brothers in Zul’Gurub and Zul’Drak. In World of Warcraft patch 4.1, their sympathies have changed. Coming soon to a World of Warcraft server near you, the Rise of the Zandalari patch brings sweeping changes to the once-friendly troll tribe. Now fighting to…
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What Can Terrorists Learn from Video Games?
Gamification is the act of applying video game-like rewards to non-gaming situations as a form of motivation. Imagine earning experience points for taking out the trash, or scoring well on a customer service survey, or learning how to create homemade explosives for use in terrorist acts. The same mechanic that shows so much potential for…
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In Search of a Massively-Multiplayer RPG that isn’t World of Warcraft
Commenter ValeriaHeart is looking for suggestions for a massively-multiplayer online role-playing game to play with her partner that isn’t World of Warcraft in today’s episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku. Won’t you help her? Are there any MMORPG players out there that are playing something that isn’t WoW? How is that game? Would you recommend it?…
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Valve’s “Three Turret Moon” T-Shirt So Behind the Curve It’s Ahead Again
The famous turrets from Portal 2 howl at the moon, having gone feral under the leadership of the mighty Animal King. Twenty bucks from the Valve store. (I’m resisting. If I want it by the next full moon, I’ll pull the trigger.) Three Turret Moon T-Shirt ($20) [Store.ValveSoftware.com]
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Rhythm Paradise Brings Most Exciting Keynote Slide of the Year
Follow up to the cult portable series Rhythm Heaven, Rhythm Paradise is coming to Wii this summer. We don’t know much beyond that it designed to be played “only with buttons”. But it’s clear from the slide a whole world of spaghetti stabbing awaits. Nintendo Heaven Financial Results Briefing (March 2011) [Nintendo.co.jp] Update: It has…
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It Sure Looks Like Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness is Coming to the 3DS
The magazine scans reader David points us towards are ridiculously blurry and the images vague, but three things are certain: That spiky-haired character is holding a Pokéball, the game is on the 3DS, and that’s Agate Village from Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness For more than a decade now, Pokémon fans have been clamoring for…
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Sony PlayStation Tablets’ Touchscreen D-Pad In Real Life
A virtual d-pad has worked better on tablets and phones than many have expected, but mostly for games designed with those limitations in mind. [Impress Watch] One thing hasn’t changed: Sony knows how to make pretty hardware. The slate-style tablet isn’t as thin as you’d think. Sony’s New PlayStation Tablet is a Sexy Beast Today…
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Talk Amongst Yourselves
Another week, another Tuesday—and what have we all got to say for ourselves? ShinLord has struck again, and proves that you can never have too much Minecraft (unless, of course, you’re the dead kid in the picture). Think you’ve also got some mad Photoshop skills? Submit your own handy-work at #TAYpics (Read this thread for…
By Drew Cohen
