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Homecoming Kings
The Rays and the Red Sox had an old-fashioned bad-blood rivalry early last decade, one that cooled off in animosity as the talent gap between the two clubs has narrowed. When these two American League East franchises meet, three big name players will be facing their former team. That would be Carl Crawford, who played…
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Run a Katamari All Over This (and Any) Site
Are you browsing this page on Google Chrome right now? Well, you’re going to want to. Some saint of a coder has developed an utterly delightful hack that rolls up all of a Web page’s text and pictures, Katamari-style. How’s it work? Pasting a piece of JavaScript into Chrome’s address bar activates the hack, which…
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The Moosiest Moose We Know
This is no longer a vacation. It’s a quest. It’s a quest for coupons. I’m gonna have deals and you’re gonna have savings. We’re all gonna have so much fucking fun we’ll need plastic surgery to remove our godamn smiles. You’ll be whistling “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” out of your assholes! Hardware • PS3 Slim 320GB Console, Playstation…
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Imminent NFL Lockout Does Not Threaten Madden 12‘s Release
Though the NFL’s ownership is expected to lock players out, following a breakdown in negotiations with the players’ union, EA Sports repeated reassurances that will have no impact on Madden NFL 12’s release or its rosters. While the NFLPA has decertified, evidently its agreement with EA Sports still provides for the use of the group…
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MLB 11 The Show Gets In a Dig at MLB 2K11‘s Cover Boy
MLB 11 The Show’s third-wheel analyst, Eric Karros, completely telegraphs this burn of Roy Halladay, who graces the cover of Major League Baseball 2K11. If it’s any consolation to 2K Sports, I doubt many people will hear this. You can mute individual announcers in the competing product, and Karros was buh-bye on day one for…
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Yesterday Was a Great Time for a Japanese Politician to Say He’ll Ban Games
On Thursday, this guy, the current governor of Kanagawa prefecture in Japan, wagged his finger at violent video games and said he’d ban them as well if he’s elected governor of Tokyo. About 12 hours later, a tsunami smashed into northeast Japan. As the Tōhoku region is digging out, facing a rising death toll and,…
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NBA 2K11 Gets a New Voice in the Booth
Kevin Harlan, the play-by-play voice of NBA 2K, told KNBR-AM’s Damon Bruce (also a voice in the game) that former NBA executive and player Steve Kerr will join the series as analyst next year. Kerr will replace Clark Kellogg; he was formerly the analyst in EA Sports’ NBA Live series.
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Yeah, Pretty Sure This Cheat Code Doesn’t Work
I’ve tried it repeatedly and can’t get the damn thing to work. Maybe this is only for the PAL version of the game? For those who want an NES controller wallet like that one, let me Google that for you. Or make one for yourself. The Nintendo Wallet Secret [DtotheAimo, YouTube]
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Nintendo’s Just Fine, Thanks for Asking
Nintendo’s Japanese headquarters are in Kyoto, some 300 miles from the devastation of yesterday’s tsunami. Still, many have asked if the 8.9 magnitude earthquake caused any damage. Nintendo tweets: “Thanks for your concern! During the earthquake no one at Nintendo in Japan was injured and there was no apparent structural damage.”
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LEGO Wizards Don’t Stop the Motion in Their Third Games Tribute
Ninja Moped, the Swedish artists behind a series of eye-popping stop-motion LEGO animations depicting classic video games, have released another stunning video, following up these and 2009’s seminal “8-Bit Trip” The Top Gun sequence probably gets my vote for most awesome; appearances by Jeopardy, Castlevania and a really old school stumper, the last one at…
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You Can Contribute to the First Major Study of Sports Video Gamers
The games development research lab GAMBIT, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has launched a study of sports video gamers, one a researcher believes will be the first comprehensive, independent examination of a very large video game segment, but one often seen as an outlier to the wider culture. The researchers are seeking respondents to…
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