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EA Sports’ ‘Persistent’ Player Profile Would Mean No More Starting from Scratch Each Year
Each year the new title comes out, sports gamers must re-enter their preferences, their profiles, must re-create themselves in singleplayer careers, must restart dynasties and franchises and online franchises. Remarks by EA Sports’ president hint that their titles may soon put all of that under a persistent experience, imported from a previous version into new…
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The World Bank Proposes Fair Trade Gold Farming
An analysis by a World Bank initiative recommends that gold farming – you read that right – is a substantial growth opportunity for developing nations’ economies, and that NGOs – bureaucrat speak for do-gooder agencies – begin connecting the rural poor in these nations to gold farming enterprises under a fair-trade modeling. That shit-you-not-proposition is…
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A Visit from Photo-Flo
I like the fact this incredibly painful nutshot occurs in what appears to be a hotel suite. That’s where nonsense of this sort should ideally take place. Reminds me of a day long ago – well before digital photography – when half of the school paper checked into the Marriott Marquis of Atlanta for a…
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Get Tired with UFC Personal Trainer
UFC Personal Trainer, the MMA-branded exergame coming soon for Kinect from THQ, dares to ask the question of what is a more ridiculous workout activity: Deadlifting a dumptruck tire in real-life, or in the comfort of your living room? Coming in June, UFC Personal Trainer joins EA Sports Active NFL Training Camp as sports-branded products…
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“Sam B” Performs Before Quite a Dead Crowd
Another set of screenshots dumped today tell the tale of Sam B, a “one-hit wonder rap star of fading fame,” booked for the ill-fated resort of Dead Island the weekend the apocalypse went down. Decked out in pirate garb, Sam B will be the game’s Tank class, according to an accompanying release from developer Deep…
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Game Wall: The Game on a Wall
Here is a video game projected on the side of a building, which sounds like a familiar idea, but Game Wall, by the Swiss film group &Söehne, incorporates the features of the wall into the game itself. The ship in Game Wall must navigate the wall as a maze, using the brick as traversable space…
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Sorry, You’re Grounded
Shutdown Eve | With a budget deal unlikely, the U.S. federal government appears headed for a shutdown, meaning widespread closures of government agencies and suspensions of service. That includes the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, a favorite tourist stop in Washington for more than four decades. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Four New Fighters Enter…
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Watch the Dragon Pop Out of Someone’s Chest With This 3DS Augmented Reality T-Shirt
So, we’ve seen the 3DS’s augmented reality games played on an iPhone, on an Android phone and on a white board. We’ve seen giant cards spawn giant Miis and Marios. Now, thanks to this t-shirt, you may see the AR dragon pop out of someone’s chest. Level Up Studios has printed up this AR Card…
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Of Course We Had To Check Out A Game Called Lesbian Spider-Queens Of Mars
The Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim flash games might not always be wonderful examples of gaming goodness, but they generally have pretty good names. Case in point, Lesbian Spider Queens of Mars. How can you not play that? Well I couldn’t resist trying it out, and I found a game that wouldn’t have been out of…
By Mike Fahey
