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A Chronicle of Misspelled Slurs — Except ‘Fat,’ ‘Ugly’ or ‘Slutty’
From the message that Xbox Live user ralphy305 sent a female gamer, it’s clear the time he should have spent on his spelling and grammar was instead put to keying in a text representation of an ejaculating penis. Give the devil his due, though, ralphy305’s invective was also a hat trick hitting the titular themes…
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Watch a Video Game Being Made In Seven Minutes
Three developers from Cryptic Studios participated in last weekend’s Global Game Jam, the festival that challenges participants to create a game from scratch in just 48 hours. They built this time-lapse video, compressing two days of work into seven minutes. Jimb Esser (programming), James Laird (programming and design) and Nick Duguid (art) collaborated on “Benny…
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A Fistful of Dollars Stopped a Nomination for Red Dead Redemption
Check out that list of games nominated for the Writers Guild’s Video Game Writing Award. Seem like anyone’s missing? Well, there’s neither Red Dead Redemption nor anything from BioWare. The Guild says these games makers “refused” to submit a script. Why is that? The matter of a $60 fee seems to be a sticking point.…
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League of Evil Offers a Meaty Experience of Its Own
Super Meat Boy’s replayable challenge and smartly simple design would make it a natural for an iPhone, right? Yeah, not much chance we’ll be seeing that. But consider League of Evil, which draws on the same concept while expanding it. Released this week by Ravenous Games, League of Evil follows the same gameplay objective as…
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Thought Demon’s Souls Was Hard? Dark Souls Will Be Even Harder
Demon’s Souls was a challenging game, and while some thrived on that challenge, others shied away. That cowardly bunch will find no succor in the game’s follow-up, as Dark Souls promises to be even more difficult. More difficult than Demon’s Souls. To some that seems like an impossible thing, yet that’s just what Dark Souls…
By Mike Fahey
