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The Invisible Batter of Baseball on the PlayStation Move
MLB 11 The Show will get PlayStation Move support but I wouldn’t put high hopes on it. The only supported feature will be a Home Run Derby mode, shown here, and that weird floating bat just strikes me wrong. CtrlAltKill brought this back from CES. The game has foregone the representation of a hitter, just…
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Minecraft’s New Musical “Note Blocks” Are Already A Triumph
Note blocks, which play a tone in one of two octaves, were added to Minecraft with the PC hit’s update yesterday. Already someone’s figured out how to make them play the introduction to the Portal theme “Still Alive.” YouTube poster Tritex989 made the music machine, which plays automatically thanks to redstone powering each note block.…
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In Letters From The Front, The Solemn Words Of Angry Birds
“I’m having trouble making sense of all this,” writes Red, from the War of Porcine Passive Aggression. “They tell me I can come home after we get three stars on 3-18.” Yeah, well, it ain’t gonna get no better on 3-19, corporal, I can assure you of that. Chris Riebschlager, a Kansas City web developer,…
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Getting A Casual Flick From Your Phone
FlickBuddies has a cheeky name that resembles another word if you glance at it quickly. The game does provide good, clean fun, though it still is a casual encounter. Two people can play this 99-cent iPhone game (even four on some of its 12 boards) but for large groups the iPad version (which costs a…
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PS3 Hack Dispenses Trophies Galore
Hackers have figured out how to bestow themselves trophies in some PlayStation 3 games, revealing another threat posed by the PS3 root key crack unleashed earlier this month. CVG reported that hackers in some forums claimed to have given themselves trophies, though it was not clear if they were able to sync their altered trophy…
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Would You Play Kinect Games In The Arcade?
The Game Gate VU is an arcade cabinet that houses an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 – a coin-op kiosk, more or less, with some other features. It’s now been outfitted for Kinect. Anybody seen one of these yet? BMI Gaming, a heavyweight distributor of arcade machines, lists the unit for $4,875 – with a…
By Owen Good