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Snooze and the Gray
Snooze and the Gray | Interestingly, South Carolina chose to observe the 150th anniversary of April 12, 1861, the first shot of the American Civil War on April 9, 2011, the 146th anniversary of the Confederates’ surrender. Here a Confederate re-enactor – hell, is there any other left? – takes a nap during South Carolina’s…
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Promoter Sues Microsoft Over Kinect Launch Event
Remember the Times Square launch event for Kinect last fall? It took some begging, pleading, and cold hard cash just to happen, when the cops made the last-minute discovery a full blown concert didn’t have the requisite permits. The promoter who made all the bad stuff go away says Microsoft owes him $63,000 for it.…
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Beating a Different Drum
Another tranquil week; Patapon 3 arrives for PSP; World of Tanks rumbles across the line on PCs. Outside of those two, the heavy sounds of shovels as April’s first bloom hits its stride. Sunday Raving Rabbids: Travel in Time (3DS) Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell 3D (3DS) Monday Escape Trick: The Secret of Rock City Prison…
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LittleBigPlanet 2 Does a Good Job of Babysitting with this Game Boy Remake
Drive up the volume for this user-created level from LittleBigPlanet 2, an homage to World 1-1 from Super Mario Land on the Game Boy. Creator Junkvxxl loaded the level three days ago; it became a developer favorite two days ago; it’s been played more than 36,000 times in that span. If you have the game,…
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Top 5 of 10: Bad Dog Days
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 5 Game Characters Having a Worse Day Than You [Calm Down Tom] Though No. 2 is “Kane and/or Lynch in Kane and Lynch 2,”…
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‘Honest Hearts’ Is Indeed Fallout; New Vegas‘ Next DLC
Back in January, a trademark filing hinted that “Honest Hearts” would succeed “Dead Money” as Fallout: New Vegas’ second DLC extension. A few screengrabs of a video briefly uploaded by Fallout maker Bethesda Softworks verifies that as the title and gives the briefest and tiniest of glimpses at its visuals. A Bethesda forum user who…
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Guard That Nice Everything You Have With This ‘Attack Creeper’
A couple months back a Minecraft enthusiast/do-it-yourselfer figured he needed improved seccurity in his apartment. “Unfortunately for me my building does not allow dogs so a big scary animal was not an option,” he writes. Then, boom! he got this idea. A little crude, but Chris’ Arduino-powered, motion-detecting, RC-scootering, ssssss-booming Creeper from Minecraft does the…
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Adventures in Babysitting — for Sony
This week, the president of Sony Computer Entertainment America gave a rather impertinent comment to Fortune magazine, dismissing Nintendo handhelds as “babysitting tools.” We think this calls for a role reversal. I don’t have a specific image for you to ‘Shop this week – we haven’t gone open-ended for a couple of months. But I…
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