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‘Shop Contest Roundup
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By Owen Good -
Addicted To What The Sticks Did
Golf, in real life, never took root in me. I had friends who played, and invited me along. As a young sports writer I covered a couple of exciting tournaments. In college, I enrolled in a golf class my senior year and was even partnered with N.C. State’s quarterback, a guy who later became a…
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Digital Pioneer Who Established Sony Computer Entertainment Dies At 81
Norio Ohga, the former chairman of Sony who, in 1993, established Sony Computer Entertainment and paved the way for the PlayStation, died Saturday morning in Tokyo. He was 81. Ohga’s digital media vision had far reaching impact, not just for his company but for all electronics manufacturers. In video games, Sony and Nintendo had been…
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Keep Pluckin’ That Chicken In Monday Night Combat
If your fetish happens to be rodeo-riding a giant chicken named for a former U.S. Secretary of Commerce, you’re going to want to get Monday Night Combat’s latest update, which went live last night. That’s “Chickey Cantor,” the newest star of Monday Night Combat, found in its newest map, Uncle Tully’s Funland. Yes, yes, I…
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Does Sony Owe You Anything For The PSN Outage?
The PlayStation Network has been down for a solid two days. We don’t know when it will end. All we know, in its third day, is that Sony says an “external intrusion” is responsible for the outage. All multiplayer gaming is conked. Some downloadable titles are completely unplayable. (Those good old title updates are still…
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Smell Like An Orc With These RPG-Inspired Perfumes
Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs, who brought you “Chtulhu: The Fragrance,” has released a line of RPG-themed “perfume oil blends.” Yes, if you’ve always wanted to smell like an elf but never thought to mix parma violet, hawthorne bark, white moss and a bunch of other shit together, they’ve got you covered. Choose from all standard…
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You Wouldn’t Like Me When I’m Angry
Reader Joe Lindell couldn’t believe his eyes. After whacking a three-run home run against the Tampa Bay Rays in MLB 2K11, the CPU actually – possibly even deliberately – hit his next batter. Oh, it’s on like (trademarked by Nintendo)! The scene: Twins at Rays, top of the first. Joe’s already playing small ball, so…
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“Hitman: Absolution” Seems To Be The Name Of The Game
Just so you know, IO Interactive was doin’ aug- alternate-reality games before doing alternate-reality games was cool, giving up a look at what’s believed to be Hitman’s next entry. A trademark filing by Square Enix now indicates it will be titled “Hitman: Absolution.” The trademark listing with the European Union says the mark, currently under…
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Come In The Bahamas
You may think phone service stinks since deregulation, but don’t mess with us, because we’re all you’ve got. In fact, if we fold, you’ll have no damn phones. AT&T – we’re tired of taking your crap! Remember: Sony. Because Caucasians Are Just Too Damn Tall. Hardware • PS3 Slim 160GB + $50 Bonus Credit is…
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Heavenly Tetris Delivers A Miracle From Above
On Wednesday, XKCD – look, if you’re reading a video game site at (checks watch) 11:47 PM, then XKCD needs no introduction – offered its vision of Tetris in heaven. Today, someone made that a playable reality. Here is Tetris in Heaven. Too many squigglies? Got a tower or column running up the center? Like…
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Sony Confirms ‘External Intrusion’ Is Behind PSN Outage
Sony has acknowledged that the outage, since late Wednesday, of PlayStation Network is due to “an external intrusion on our system.” Patrick Seybold, PlayStation’s top spokesman, said the service was taken offline “to conduct a thorough investigation and to verify the smooth and secure operation of our network services.” Still no word on when the…
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Paid Subscription Would Offer Early Downloads, Free DLC, For EA Sports Titles
An online survey indicates that EA Sports has plans to offer a paid subscription that, among other features, would deliver some paid downloadable content for free and make full versions of upcoming games available for download before their release date. “Discounts on all downloadable content for participating EA Sports console-based titles,” was the first bullet…
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Romancing the Gnomes Leads To Happily Ever After In Warcraft
Cutting-edge trendspotter The New York Times today tackled the phenomenon of MMO-facilitated romance, noting that the subscriber base for World of Warcraft is six times that of Match.com. To explain the phenomenon, the Times turned to Ramona Pringle, who studied MMO romance as a producer for the PBS news magazine Frontline. Pringle enlisted the animation…
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EA Sports’ “Football Czar” Opens With A Two-Month Drill
In the two and a half months since he traded Canada’s weather for Florida’s, and titles like FIFA for Madden, Cam Weber has read that he delayed Madden’s release for three weeks because of the NFL lockout; that he’s adding some kind of social network to the game, like Need for Speed’s Autolog; and that…
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How One Man Stopped Square-Enix From Letting Gamers Kill Yahweh
The attempt to include overt references to Judeo-Christian figures in the classic role-playing game Xenogears caused a few translators to quit — they feared a violent backlash — and prompted a change in the name of the game’s final boss, according to one of the people who brought the game to America. On this week’s…
By Drew Cohen