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He Doesn’t Have To Give This One Back
Reggie Bush today forfeited his 2005 Heisman Trophy. He also starred on NCAA 07’s cover. EA Sports, of course, won’t erase that. But if Bush hadn’t played in 2005, it’s likely Heisman runner-up Vince Young would have made the cover. Custom Vince Young cover via Fanblogs.
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Valve Wants To Hear Your Body Talk
Let’s get physical, or more specifically, let’s get biometrical, as Valve’s Gabe Newell, Erik Johnson and Doug Lombardi talk to PC Gamer about using players’ intrinsic physical reactions to playing video games. Valve doesn’t just want to hear how much you like its games. Valve wants to know how you really feel, and the company…
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Enslaved Is More Than One Giant Escort Quest
in the latest developer diary for Ninja Theory’s Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, the fine folks at Ninja Theory explain how Monkey and Trip work together, all while standing in an abandoned home stacking monitors. I quite like it when a developer tries to use compelling locations and nifty special effects to spice up their…
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Vanquish Gets Armored Up In The UK Special Edition
Sam Gideon comes alive in this exclusive special edition of Sega’s Vanquish featuring a lovely window box and one extremely sexy seven inch figure. It’s time to make some friends in the UK. Vanquish’s distinctive visual flair has been catch the eyes of gamers everywhere since Sega first drew back the curtain on the sci-fi…
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When Mega Man Meets Mortal Kombat
What do you get when you cross Capcom’s 8-bit hero Mega Man with the deadliest fighters this side of Outworld? You get the most adorable collection of cold-blooded killers ever. Flickr user ShampooTeacher teaches us a thing or two about combining two of gaming’s most beloved franchises with the help of a little fancy beadwork.…
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Storming The Stronghold In Red Dead Redemption
Red Dead Redemption’s Liars and Cheats DLC is due out next week, bringing with it the brand new Stronghold game type, and this is what it looks like. You can never have enough flags in online multiplayer games; that’s what I always say. Red Dead’s new Stronghold multiplayer mode increases the number of flags in…
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Blizzard Prepares To Ban StarCraft II Cheaters
StarCraft II players using unauthorized hacks and modifications to get a leg up on the competition might want to give fair play a try, as a Blizzard statement indicates the end of the line is in sight for cheaters. Blizzard is a company that takes cheating quite seriously. Regularly banning massive numbers of players for…
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The Colorful Cast Of The Tester’s Second Season
Meet Big Fazeek, Max1m, War Princess, Gaymer, Mo Chocolate, and the rest of the cast of season two of Sony’s PlayStation Network reality show The Tester, in which players compete for one of the worst jobs in the gaming industry. The first season of The Tester gave us an interesting look at the sort of…
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DC Universe Online Adds Talking Monkeys In Purple Undies
Batman’s archenemy is a homicidal lunatic, Superman has a megalomaniac hell-bent on world domination, and the Flash? The Flash has a hyper-intelligent gorilla. Check out Gorilla Grodd and the monkey fun bunch in these latest screens from DC Universe Online. I suppose the logical evil opposite to the Flash would be a guy who moved…
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PopCap Launching Casual Gaming “Disneyland” In Korea
PopCap Games, the company behind ridiculously addictive games like Bejeweled and Plants Vs. Zombies, has teamed up with MMO company NCsoft to create PopCap World, an online multiplayer social game service launching in Korea later this year. Korean gamers, known for latching on to online games and never letting go, are about to meet some…
By Mike Fahey
