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Here Is A Dog In A Tron Costume Playing Donkey Kong
And Excitebike! In Episode 1 of “Tron Dog,” the canine protagonist gets sucked into the game grid to dodge barrels and flip a motorbike. I mean, it’s Tron Dog, the title sort of speaks for itself, right? The video stars Sauce, the four-year-old pomeranian owned by Stephanie Farah, who shot the video with William Voermann.…
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iPhone Dead Space Puts Monsters In Your Pants
Dead Space 2 arrives next week. Sometime soon we’ll be getting Dead Space on the iPhone, in a game whose story bridges that of the two console versions. Here’s how the iPhone’s gameplay will look. Like the original game, Isaac himself is the HUD in the iPhone version (holograms over him show ammo, health, etc),…
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Finally A Chance To Slap PlayStation Home Users
Two new games hit Sony’s PlayStation Home virtual world on Thursday, through one hits harder than the other. Conspiracy’s stealthy infiltration seems entertaining, but Slap Happy Sam’s cartoon violence looks downright therapeutic. From independent developer the Odd Gentlemen, Slap Happy Sam is a multiplayer game in which players can get back at each other for…
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Unleashing Your Evil Side In Dead Space 2 Multiplayer
Dead Space 2’s Outbreak multiplayer mode pits fragile humans against twisted alien monsters in an all-out battle to see who kills what first. Let’s see how that looks through the eyes of a Necromorph. I’ve played plenty of games that pit human characters with guns against hideous creatures with super powers; games like Singularity, Left…
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“Problematic” Gaming Linked To Depression, Drugs, And Fighting
In a survey that’s sure to be taken the wrong way by somebody, researchers at the Yale School of Medicine have discovered links between “problematic gaming” and negative health behaviors like smoking, doing drugs, and fighting. But first, good news! the good news is that the study, which surveyed 4,028 adolescents about their gaming habits,…
By Mike Fahey
