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Once and For All, Mario Can Jump the Flagpole
GameTrailers took on, Mythbusters style, the legend that Mario can leap the flagpole in Super Mario Bros on the NES. and, whaddaya know, they indeed proved it true. World 3-3 is where you have the best chance of doing it yourself. Now, GameTrailers, next for you: Turning Smurfette naked in Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel’s Castle…
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PAX Surveys Alternatives to Its Booth Babe Ban
Booth babes are a staple of many games expositions, but not Penny Arcade’s. Still, Some scanty-pants booth reps have made it into recent shows and caught PAX organizers’ attentions. Before they put their foot down, they want some community feedback. “Our definition of a “booth babe” has been a model (male or female) that has…
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Supreme Court Justice O’Connor Calls Games ‘Fabulous’
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor recently spoke a word of charity for video games, telling ABC News in an interview that the medium’s a “fabulous” way to get children to learn. O’Connor was, of course, describing educational games, not Red Dead Redemption, when she said that games can help children learn more about…
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Splinter Cell Supplies Deniable Ops DLC
Friendly reminder: Splinter Cell Conviction’s first downloadable content package, Deniable Ops Insurgency hit PC and Xbox Live marketplaces today. Ubisoft would also like you to know that another 250 achievement points are now available with the DLC. The DLC gives new missions for Archer and Kestral to perform, plus another four maps in Deniable Ops…
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Here’s What Ubisoft Is Bringing To E3
E3 is right around the corner, and the big publishers are rolling out lists of what they’ll be bringing to the show. Ubisoft’s list includes Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Shaun White Skateboarding, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, the next installment of the Driver series, and “many other titles” that haven’t been revealed yet. Keep an…
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Mario’s Voice Yearns For Waluigi Games
Three out of four Mushroom Kingdom plumbers have scored starring video game roles. The man who voices them all, Charles Martinet, wants to make it four out of four, lamenting the lack of a game starring Wario’s skinny lackey, Waluigi. Charles Martinet is a prolific video game voice actor, and if he had his way,…
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Maybe You Only Think You Smell Bad
What’s worse: Smelling bad, or only imagining you smell bad? Psychiatrists are considering adding olfactory reference syndrome – a syndrome where the victim believes they emit an imagined foul odor – to The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. As a lifelong gamer and frequent science fiction convention attendee, I tend to run into…
By Mike Fahey