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The Moneysaver: The Devil’s Greatest Trick
You think you can catch Keyser Soze? You think a guy like that comes this close to getting caught and sticks his head out? If he comes up for anything, it’d be a 3-for-2 used games deal and free shipping. Nominate your favorite movie to lead the next Moneysaver, and get starred if we use…
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The Week in Review: Crosshairs
Video games are not responsible for the mass killing in Tucson, Ariz. a week ago. But the suspect’s deranged ramblings in an online game’s forums put them in the spotlight. Gamers have, justifiably, long mistrusted their portrayal in these stories. The blame script is exceedingly familiar to the community by now, and it’s propagated by…
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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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