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Box Scores: BCS Buster
Two missed field goals effectively ended Boise State’s shot at a BCS title game bid. Bodies will hit the floor in college football’s penultimate weekend, but zillions of strivers are still alive – in EA Sports’ NCAA Football, that is. Reader Koda89 dusted off a copy of NCAA Football 2007 and challenged himself to take…
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Games That Never Existed But Should Have: Falling Down
Practically any movie released during the SNES’ lifespan was licensed into a video game – except the 1993 angry-man cult hit “Falling Down.” But Pete Curran of Firefly Productions has, uh, gameplay video from a, uh, review copy. No, really. As if that wasn’t enough for you, hang on to the end, where you can…
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The Moneysaver: It’s Not Over Yet
Holiday retail season is officially upon us, and the deals aren’t offered only on the Friday after Thanksgiving. We have a blimpful of them in this morning’s Moneysaver. No snazzy movie quotes – not sure any are recognizable in this 1977 tale of a terrorist plot at the Super Bowl. Black Sunday was a commercial…
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The Week In Review: Retail Therapy
We’re just 24 hours into the Christmas shopping season and we’re thankful there are no reports of tramplings, maimings or tear-gassings. Yet. Update: Apparently there was a Buffalo stampede. No, really. There was a trampling at a Buffalo-area Target. None were seriously hurt. All that said, all of the holiday shopping is not done within…
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Col. Sanders Phantasy Star Screens Are Phinger-Lickin’ Good
Back in September we learned that Col. Harland Sanders would be appearing in Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity, celebrating the 40th anniversary of Kentucky Fried Chicken in Japan. We now have five screengrabs of his secret recipe in action. The Colonel appears in game as a partner character. Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity is out…
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MLB 2K11 Gets The Numbers Right
The first screenshot of MLB 2K11 has been released and it – quite deliberately I think – shows that the hideous uniform numerals from MLB 2K10 have been corrected and made consistent with real life. Roy Halladay (pictured), the game’s cover star, also looks much better, as Pasta Padre’s side-by-side comparison shows. First MLB 2K11…
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Cops Zap PCP-Using Rock Band Enthusiast (With Video)
From the University of Maryland comes this tale of holiday cheer – starring GameStop, Rock Band 3, a guy on PCP, cops, and the requisite taser. A Maryland senior headed to a shopping center on Monday intending to get a new ATM card. Instead, he saw a guy alone inside a GameStop, game cases strewn…
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