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On Time For The Launch
On Time For The Launch | A rebel fighter celebrates as his comrades fire a rocket barrage toward the positions of troops loyal to Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday. Rebels exchanged artillery and rocket fire with loyalist troops west of Ajdabiyah as the confict engulfing Libya continued. (Photo: Chris Hondros/Getty Images) MLB 2K11’s Pitching…
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MLB 2K11‘s Pitching Perfectionists Want It Done Right
About two weeks ago, someone uploaded a video purporting to show the final inning of a successful perfect game in MLB 2K11 which, if legitimate, will claim a $1 million prize offered by 2K Sports. In it, the player throws nothing but high curveballs, a strategy that wouldn’t get you out of the first inning…
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The Date Is Not A Lie
There’s some game due to release by Tuesday, its name is on the tip of my tongue. Something about potatoes. Eh, it’ll come to me. If not, Mortal Kombat, SOCOM 4 and Conduit 2 are all A-list drops arriving on the same day. Monday Remington Super Slam Hunting: Alaska (Wii) Tuesday Portal 2 (Mac, PS3,…
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Of Course Crytek Wants 16 Times More RAM In The Next Console Generation
Crytek took it in the shorts from PC loyalists who felt Crysis 2 was handled in a way that catered more to console users than to PC gamers. In an interview, the studio’s graphics engineer said Microsoft and Sony have way underweight RAM configurations, and whatever they build next needs 8 GB of RAM, minimum.…
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Top 5 of 10: Marketing Geniuses
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •Top 10 Embarrassingly Bad Moments In Video Game Marketing [Calm Down Tom] I thought for sure EA’s mailing of brass knuckles for The Godfather Part…
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Presenting Ace of Spades, the “Minecraft FPS”
“Minecraft with rifles,” is how many describe Ace of Spades, and not just because of the low-res visual motif. Or the fact it, too, is in beta. The team-based multiplayer CTF setup also allows players to build bunkers, dig tunnels and erect fortifications. The objective in Ace of Spades is an intel briefcase, stolen from…
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How To Stuff A 3DS Inside A Game Boy
Let’s say you have a loved one sent to a prison, and you need to smuggle them a 3DS inside a Game Boy. (Look, just go with it). Goteking, who gave us the iPod-in-a-Dreamcast-VMU, now supplies a 3DS case made from a Game Boy It’s like the turducken of gaming handhelds. Goteking supplies a fake…
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The Crowd-Sourced Wii 2
Alright, gang, you had to know this one was coming. I had a couple other ideas this week, but in light of rumors that Nintendo will unveil a Wii successor at E3, and the thing will have iPads for controllers, we have to make sense of it all and help the Internet understand what this…
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