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They Died For Mega Man’s 4.0 GPA

If I had the Mega Buster, junior year chemistry would have been so much easier. Two birds, one stone and all that, too. Seen on Dorkly.

Halo Reach, Time, Golf Balls & One Poor Spartan Make An Epic Machine

Halo Reach player and Forge tinkerer “Carnage A51” spent a month in the Xbox 360 game’s level maker, crafting a Rube Goldberg machine with a red letter ending. It may take a while to get there, but it pays off. Warthogs Mongeese and Ghosts toppling like dominoes and slow moving Halo golf balls may test…

Fallout: New Vegas Does Thing On Japan’s Sales Charts

The most exciting new addition to this week’s Japanese game sales chart is the appearance of Fallout: New Vegas. Looks like that “protest” against Japanese role-playing games campaign worked. While Fallout: New Vegas didn’t managed to unseat reigning champ God Eater Burst—or sell better than the Super Mario Bros. collection, Pokemon or Winning Eleven 2011,…

Kinect Sports Launches Facebook App

Rare has built and launched a Kinect Sports application for Facebook, which will keep track of players’ league results, allow them to issue invitations and be invited to others, and collect video highlights in a single place. The application will soon update with the ability to see complete personal stats and records (by event, or…

Turkey, Attorneys and Some Lovely Bruschetta

To: Ash From: Crecente I got a turkey in the mail today. It was an entire turkey, smoked. It came from the smokehouse wizards in New Braunfels, Texas. They are magical with their meats…. Hmmm, that didn’t come out right. I once spent a week in New Braunfels covering a very high-profile murder trial that…

Melt Down The Megacopter In Bionic Commando Rearmed 2

This is how you bring down the Megacopter in Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 – hang on its undercarriage, blast away at the engines and then – jump on a plunger so it shits out a clown car? Well alright. That’s one way to finish off a boss in BCR2. Capcom released the following gallery o’…

Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 Characters

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Super Meat Boy Teases New 360 Chapter, New PC Character

Minecraft guy and Captain Viridian of VVVVVV are known to be two of three playable characters exclusive to Super Meat Boy’s upcoming PC version. Team Meat teased the third today; looks like the guest star’s game name rhymes with Shmachinarium. There are three more characters to be revealed, and Team Meat dropped these hints: “One…

de Blob 2 Lets Blob Drink Lead Paint, Be A Morph Ball

Wii hit de Blob is going 2D, HD and stereoscopic 3D when the globose, paint-drenched hero makes his way to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 next year. THQ’s Blob also has a few new tricks, including one that made 3D Metroid games more fun. de Blob 2 retains the soft, brightly colored charm of…

Know Mega Man’s Evil Robot Masters

With ten installments of the main Mega Man series and several spinoffs, it’s hard to tell one evil Robot Master from the next. That’s where Udon’s Mega Man Robot Master Field Guide comes in. The Mega Man Robot Master Field Guide, due out in March of next year from frequent Capcom collaborator Udon Entertainment, compiles…

The Assassin’s Creed Comic Has Got Me Wondering…

Maybe the assassins are the bad guys? I’ve played the Assassin’s Creed games as thoroughly as I scrape the bottom of a bowl of vanilla pudding. I’m up on the lore, I’ve unlocked hidden movies and I’m waiting for more information about how Marco Polo was involved in the generations-spanning conflict between the brotherhood of…

Excuse Me, Do You Have the Time?

Take the short survey below, email the your answer to [email protected], and you’ll be entered to win an Oberon LED watch. Now, the next time a girl asks you the time you won’t have to pull out your cell phone full of text messages from your mom. Standard contest rules apply. Only open to US…

Call of Duty: Black Ops Luckiest Kill Is Axe To Ankles

We’ve seen off the wall knife kills before in Call of Duty multiplayer—remember this lucky Modern Warfare 2 stab?—but across the map, off the wall, off the floor and into the Achilles heel of an online opponent? The unlucky recipient—a player by the handle of “BotteDimix”—of this Call of Duty: Black Ops tomahawk is likely…

You Don’t Need Two Arms To Play Kinect

Chris Erickson’s brother found himself without the use of his right arm following a tragic accident, but that hasn’t stopped him from enjoying Xbox 360 Kinect games. Here we see one of the direct benefits of controller-free gaming. He might not do quite as well with some of the more limb-intensive Kinect games like Dance…

Monday Night Combat’s PitGirl, Tank & More Get Statuesque

The Monday Night Combat battle continues… in your home! Uber Entertainment, makers of the Xbox Live Arcade hit, have made four of the game’s combatants available in resin form via the developer’s online store. These resin statues of Monday Night Combat’s PitGirl, Assassin, Assault and Tank classes don’t come cheap. They range from $69.99 to…

Instant Action Is No More, Ceasing Their Dream Of In-Browser High-End Gaming [UPDATE]

The company that let us play The Secret of Monkey Island in our browser and just started letting people play a sort of Guitar Hero on Facebook is shutting down. The company also owns the Torque engine which is used in many independent web and disc-based games. The engine is now up for sale. Word…

Sorry Dora, You Are Not Top Chef

Dora the Explorer and Top Chef host and professional hamburger eater Padma Lakshmi hang together at the New York City launch party for Nickelodeon Fit for the Wii. Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.

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The To-Do List For The Goliath Of Video Games

You’re a giant video game company. You’ve released StarCraft II this year, and Call of Duty: Black Ops is selling ridiculous amounts. Your first name’s Activision, last name’s Blizzard. You have a plan for the future and, today, you shared. What we’ve got here is the text from a slide shown today by Thomas Tippl,…

Science Proves We Can See The Future

Is the flow of time constant, or can events that haven’t occurred yet influence our behavior? A new paper provides scientific proof that humans can see into the future. You probably saw this coming. Can we see into the future? It’s a power claimed by soothsayers, oracles, witches, astrologists, and prophets since time began flowing…