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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…
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Watch Me Unbox Batman And The Game He Comes With
After four days of impassable, ice-covered roads the mail finally made it through, and the Batman statue Sony Online Entertainment sent has arrived. Can you believe it came with DC Universe Online packed inside? At least it arrived before the weekend, right? I was certain the roads around my neighborhood wouldn’t be clear until Monday…
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Lovers’ Quarrel Ends With A Face Full Of Wii
An Oregon couple discovered an unexpected benefit of being a Wii gamer earlier this week: When your drunken girlfriend hurls the console in your face, it does less damage than an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. According to her boyfriend, 31-year-old Rebecca Varina Sloskowski was intoxicated on the evening of January 10, so he left…
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This Xbox Indie Combines Rhythm And Role-Playing
Puzzle Quest taught us how to cast spells by matching brightly colored gems. Iridium Studios’ Xbox Live Indie game Sequence will teach us how to wield the awesome power of dance. Due out in March in Xbox Live’s indie games section, Sequence combines the rhythm action of Dance Dance Revolution with the magic and combat…
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Scientists Can Predict Your Gaming Skills By Scanning Your Head
Do you suck at StarCraft II? Do the intricate combo moves of Street Fighter escape you? Maybe you need an MRI. Researchers have found a method for scanning the brain that could predict how well you play video games. Some of us are just better gamers than other. Mind you I’m not putting myself in…
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Is Gamer A Dirty Word?
In today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter EcksJay22 explores the negative connotations video game enthusiasts give to the word most often used to describe them. I hate the word “gamer.” I really got to thinking about that term, as opposed to parallel ones I could come up with like, say, movie buff. The difference seems to…
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What If Pokémon Featured Real Animals And Tons Of Profanity
The world of Pokémon is bright, colorful, and filled with joy and wonder, but what if we replaced those colorful pocket monsters with real animals, and the kind-spirited characters with foul-mouthed Brits? I think it would go something like this. Much of the ground covered by this short has been covered before. It is ridiculous…
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One Does Not Simply Tunnel Into GameStop
One does not tunnel into GameStop, unless of course they plan on robbing the place blind. Then they just need to prepare to be charged with felony burglary, just like Steven Paul Archer of Chuckey, Tennessee. Archer was arrested by police yesterday for allegedly breaking into an empty store adjacent to a GameStop in Greeneville,…
By Mike Fahey
