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See the Story Treatment for the Aborted Fallout Movie
In 1998, a year after Fallout released and became a smash hit on the PC, the game’s publisher formed a films division intending to develop its properties into movies. One of those was to be Fallout. The story treatment for that film has been found. Brent V. Friedman was commissioned to write the script. The…
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No More Manuals as EA Sports Goes Green
This is the last printed manual you’ll ever see for an EA Sports game. The publisher has joined Ubisoft in releasing games without an instruction booklet, and will instead include a version of instructions that gamers may page through from within the game. EA Sports spokesman Rob Semsey confirmed the change, begun on March 1…
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Dinner After The Show
The longest Major League Baseball game ever played remains the 25-inning marathon between the Chicago White Sox and the Milwaukee Brewers back in 1984. One devotee of MLB 11 The Show and his brother broke that mark on Monday, playing nearly a triple-header’s worth of baseball. Wonder if Dave Campbell, The Show’s analyst, trotted out…
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Creator of NBC’s “Community” Celebrated Its Renewal with … Bulletstorm?
The Twitterverse went off like a fireworks volley on Thursday when news passed that “Community,” the critically acclaimed but low-rated NBC comedy-drama, was picked up for a third season. How did the show’s creator celebrate? “I came home and I played ‘Bulletstorm.'” What the dick? Well, Dan Harmon says it was either Bulletstorm or go…
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Your Bodyguard [Updated]
He was only 9. I practically raised him since he was 2. Drive you crazy! Tell him to sit down, he’d stand up. Tell him do his homework, he’d read a comic book. Couldn’t eat food without spitting it at you. A real shoplifter too. Go through a store, half of it’d wind up in…
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Metacritic Now Ranks iPhone and iPad Games
Metacritic, whose cumulative scores provide a thumbs-up/thumbs-down barometer that can move games publishers’ stock prices, has expanded. The review aggregator has begun listing iPhone and iPad apps. “Our addition of a robust iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch games section … reflects the critical community’s growing acceptance of the iOS platform as a legitimate, full-fledged gaming system whose games…
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Kinect Makes You the Rampaging Controller
Some folks, including the creator, describe this Kinect mod in Hulk-smash terms. It does tint the screen (and the skin of the players) green. But towering above puny buildings and smashing them into rubble, that sounds more like Rampage, to me. Either way, let’s get this one into production, stat. Next on the to-do list:…
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Our First Few Days with the Surprisingly Joyful Nintendo 3DS
The Nintendo 3DS is the next big thing in video games. The new portable gaming system from Nintendo lets you play games in 3D, without the need for special glasses, but there’s much more to it than that. We’ve had two of the first North American 3DS systems for several days and we’ve discovered a…
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Kevin Butler, as You’ve Never Seen Him Before (NSFW)
Cat’s out of the bag, folks. Kevin Butler is not really PlayStation’s vice president of everything from First Person Shooter Relations to Rumor Confirmation. He is, in fact, the actor Jerry Lambert, who played quite the cringe-inducing straight man in the most recent episode of Showtime’s “Shameless” on Monday. KB, under the auspices of being…
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Stacking Piles on the DLC in April
If we had any quibbles with Stacking, Double Fine’s acclaimed downloadable game, it’s that it felt held back in a semi-conspicuous way – one that might have foretold a sequel or a DLC extension. Lo and behold, the latter is indeed coming. The Lost Hobo King, the next chapter of the ragtime nesting-dolls saga, will…
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Ducks, Limited
Duck Hunt’s erstwhile mallard joins two of its kin in flight for this mixed-media wall art, available via Etsy for $120. The pixels forming the duck are quarter-inch tiles made from salvaged book covers. The entire piece is 21″x26″, sold framed with glass. Asshole Dog sold separately.
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PlayStation’s Top U.S. Exec Cleans Up Pro Poker Tour Event
That, folks, is a 10-6 unsuited. In poker jargon, that hand is known as “garbage.” But for Jack Tretton, the CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America, they were the winning cards at a pro-am poker event earlier this week. Tretton was one of several executives entered in the World Poker Tour’s Silicon Valley Poker Challenge,…
By Owen Good
