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A Comic Book Game Restores A Feeling Of Power
Finishing off Giganta in D.C. Universe Online this week, I was treated to this scene, and a reminder that no matter how much the medium matures, comic books’ emotional attachments are made in your youngest and most vulnerable years. For those not playing this video game, in D.C. Universe Online you create a super character,…
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So I Went To A Hockey Fight And Punch-Out!! Broke Out …
Fighting in hockey is awesome. It’s more than tolerated – the NHL has no problem with fighting on the ice, nor in the video games it licenses. Know what makes a hockey fight more awesome? Punch-Out!! music. This is Zack Stortini of the Edmonton Oilers and Chris Barch of the Dallas Stars getting rough Tuesday…
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Is Minecraft’s Halo Homage A Remake Or A De-Make?
Super Mario Bros.? Check. Portal? Check. What’s next for Minecraft? Halo, inevitably. Here’s “Halocraft,” a PvP arena homage to Halo 2’s Lockout map. Modified textures and sounds, if not the graphics, complete the look and feel of the original. The World Of Halo And Minecraft Collide For Some PVP Action [Hot Blooded Gaming]
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Minor League Team Parties Like It’s NHL ’94
Like Tecmo Bowl and RBI Baseball, NHL ’94 is a sports video game that transcended its genre. Anyone who played a Genesis or Super Nintendo in the 1990s remembers its goal celebration – every player rushing the scorer, sticks raised. Hardly unique to NHL ’94 – many other games signified scores in similar ways –…
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Like Tapper With a Soccer Ball — And Zombies, Of Course
Pro Zombie Soccer got a special iPad version – the “Apocalypse Edition” this past week; today we’ll take a look at the just-a-buck original which combines a single simple gameplay mechanic with that winningest of themes, the undead. PZS is like a country music song that thinks up a catchy chorus and then writes the…
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Even A LEGO Star Wars Game Needs Voice Actors
Just because none of the characters in LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars actually talk doesn’t mean they don’t employ high caliber voice talent. They just grunt a lot. The cast from the hit animated television show Star Wars: The Clone Wars reprise their roles in LEGO Star Wars III, only there’s no script,…
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Scientists Pinpoint The Clock Inside Every Living Thing, Even You
Inside every living creature there’s a 24-hour clock that regulates the biochemical, physiological, or behavioral processes going on inside of us, and now scientists have discovered exactly what that clock is. We call the 24-hour cycle that exists inside all living things on the planet the circadian rhythm. This rhythm can be seen in our…
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Pot Man And The Video Game Characters A Rapper Identifies With
Are Mega Man’s battle chips the same thing as a rapper’s weed and alcohol? Houston-area rapper A.D.D. talks about the video game characters that inspire him, name-checking Kingdom Hearts, Metal Gear, and Tomba. Tomba? Okay, A.D.D. earns some serious video game cred for calling out that pink-haired pig-hugger Tomba as one of his inspirations, even…
By Mike Fahey
