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Hate Church Targets Comic-Con
Westboro Baptist Church, the notorious “Gods Hates Fags” congregation out of Kansas, will be in San Diego next week to rain down 45 minutes of eternal and inconsequential damnation upon your idolatrous worship of Spider-Man and Green Lantern. This appears to be an opportunistic double, as the same day the same group is scheduled to…
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Getting Prairie Voles Drunk Isn’t Just For Fun Any More
What small furry rodent do scientists turn to when they need to study the effects of alcohol abuse on humans? That would be the prairie vole: nature’s frat boy. Rats and mice just aren’t social enough. Monkeys are too expensive (believe me, I know). There’s only one animal researchers at Oregon Health & Science University…
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Images From A New Helicopter Combat Game
The prevalence of helicopters in Call of Duty: Black Ops could lead to uncontrollable cravings for a game that features only helicopters. Do these screens of Apache: Air Assault satisfy the craving? In my excitement I completely missed the fact that Crecente posted the news of Apache: Air Assault earlier today, so instead of harping…
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A Novel Introduction To The World Of Guild Wars 2
The novel Ghosts of Ascalon attempts to bridge the 250-year gap between fantasy MMO Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2, but is it a bridge too far? We speak to co-author Jeff Grubb about bringing Tyria’s fiction up-to-date. The world of Tyria changes greatly in the two and a half centuries that follow the events…
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What Do Sonic, Chris Redfield, And Assassin’s Creed’s Ezio Have In Common?
What could possibly link Sega’s speedy blue hedgehog with a founding member of the Bio-terrorism Security Assessment Alliance and a Renaissance-era Italian assassin? Meet Sonic the Hedgehog’s new voice actor, Roger Craig Smith. Having voiced two of gaming’s most prominent cold-blooded killers over the past few years, Roger Craig Smith might seem like an odd…
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Here’s What Passes For A Dead Rising 2 Special Edition In North America
Exclusive to North America, the Dead Rising 2 Zombrex edition promises to delve deeper into the story of Dead Rising, with the Xbox 360 version containing the 83-minute Zombrex Dead Rising Sun film. That’s nice, where’s our action figure? It might not contain an undead tourist like the European special edition, but the North American…
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Assassin’s Creed Goes To Russia In Comic Book Mini-Series
Last month UbiWorkshop teased a secret project featuring the talents of acclaimed comic book illustrators Cameron Stewart and Karl Kerschl. Today that project stands revealed as an Assassin’s Creed comic book mini-series set in Russia, introduced via old-timey film reel. As we expected, Cameron Stewart and Karl Kerschl are indeed lending their talents to an…
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FarmVille’s First Real-World Crops Sprout Next Week
Zynga’s massive community of fake farmers will plant its first branded crops in-game next week, teaching FarmVille players about organic farming and green living through a partnership with General Mills subsidiary Cascadian Farm. Starting Monday and running through July 26, FarmVille players will be able to plant Cascadian Farm-branded organic blueberries on their plots, a…
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Drew Brees Isn’t Afraid Of The Madden Curse
New Orleans quarterback and Madden NFL 11 cover athlete Drew Brees give the audience of last night’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno a special gift for helping him overcome the Madden Curse. The Madden Curse is not real, but if it was, Drew Brees figures he’s managed to find a way around it. He points…
By Mike Fahey
