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Beat Hazard: One Man’s Quest To Make Your Music Hurt You
This weekend while poking about Steam I stumbled over Beat Hazard, the game that turns your music into colorful, frantic shooter levels, and I fell in love. Watch me play, and then read about the one-man studio behind the game. As someone who often worries about the lack of exposure Xbox Live Indie Games get…
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Nolan Bushnell Rejoins the Atari Force
Nolan Bushnell, who founded the original Atari Inc. in 1972, has returned to the company masthead as a member of Atari S.A.’s board of directors. “Original Atari” and “Atari S.A.” have to be specified because technically they’re not the same company. It’s complicated but it all has to do with Infogrames’ 2008 acquisition of Atari…
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Here’s 45 Seconds of Guys Getting Kneed in the Balls
New iPhone? Pfft. How about three pairs of sweaty men humping kicking the crap out of each other? Wait! Wait! Calm down! Form an orderly line or you’ll crash the Internet! This is 45 seconds of mostly in-game footage from EA Sports MMA, featuring Jake Shields, whose entourage went all Sharks and Jets with Jason…
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Crackdown 2 Becomes “A Beautiful Fusion Of Killing”
Apparently no one told Crackdown 2 senior designer Dean Smith that you aren’t supposed to make up your own cover blurbs, but then this video is titled “Nothing Is Sacred,” so at least he’s keeping in theme. Seriously though, that line needs to go on the game’s box art. I don’t care if it’s from…
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Raise Your Real Life World Of Warcraft Cooking Skill
If you’ve ever found yourself afflicted with hunger while leveling your cooking skill in World of Warcraft. Rock, Paper, Shotgun has a set of real-life WoW recipes that are sure to satisfy your otherworldly hunger. Beer Basted Boar Ribs, anyone? Sure you can buy a World of Warcraft cookbook, but why waste valuable time and…
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You Can Now Catch Crabs From Your iPhone
If you’re one of the legion of viewers that tune into the Discovery Channel to watch men catch crabs, you’ll be pleased to know you can now catch crabs in the palm of your hand with Deadliest Catch for iPhone. After a lackluster release on the Xbox 360 two years ago, it’s high time fans…
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Get Your Secret Mimana Iyar Chronicle Codes Here
There’s a secret area in Aksys’ PlayStation Portable Tales of-esque role-playing game Mimana Iyar Chronicles, where secret codes will earn you special loot. We just so happen to have a couple of those codes right here. Players who’ve beaten Mimana Iyar Chronicles and ventured into the New Game+ mode might have run into a fellow…
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Lost Planet 2 Multiplayer Demo Impressions: Konnichiwa, My Fellow Players
Since the majority of my multiplayer experience in the original Lost Planet involved myself and a large group of Japanese players, it seems fitting I find myself surrounded by Japanese players in the latest Lost Planet 2 multiplayer demo. The latest multiplayer demo for Lost Planet 2, which goes live on the 21, focuses on…
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Twisted Metal Creator Only Needs Two Bleeps To Talk ModNation Racers
The ModNation Racers Artist Spotlight shines on Twisted Metal creator and noted potty mouth David Jaffe, who manages to get censored only twice while discussing how bleeping amazing ModNation Racers is. Last week the founder and CEO of Insomniac Games Ted Price took ModNation Racers for a spin, creating girlfriends for two of the studio’s…
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Renault Delivers Interactive In-Game Advertising To The Sims 3
The inclusion of a free virtual version of Renault’s electric Twizy Z.E Concept car in The Sims 3 should go great lengths towards helping increase player awareness of the Renault brand. With The Sims 3, EA has discovered a whole new way to deliver in-game advertisements to its players. Take the free downloadable Renault Twizy…
By Mike Fahey
