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Whenever the Next Half-Life Comes Out, It Had Better Be Scary
Games have “gotten away from genuinely scaring the player,” and Half-Life, whenever it deploys its next episode, needs to get back to doing just that, the game’s boss said. Gabe Newell, the Valve honcho, was asked if the game’s tone has matured along with its audience’s over the past 12 years. He told Edge Magazine…
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Netflix on the Wii Features Some Nice Long Load Times
The Netflix discs enabling streaming video over the Wii are already in the mail and one reader’s uploaded this video, showing us what we can expect – in this case, 30 second loading times to browse the catalog. By this video, booting up the service takes 33 seconds. After registering the device, it’s another 33…
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PAX East Cosplay Gallery: Day One – Feeling A Bit Tingly
It’s been a busy first day at PAX East, and we’ve only managed to capture a handful of cosplayers in our mad dash about the convention area, but what they lack in quantity they make up in quality. Okay, maybe not, but they try really hard, and win points for originality? The Tingles are cute?…
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Crackdown 2 Multiplayer Preview: I Don’t Have Your Goddamned Orb
It’s hard to get an accurate feel for the Rocket Tag online multiplayer mode for Crackdown 2 when every time I try to get a word in edgewise – oh dammit I’m dead. That’s pretty much how my ten minute session of Rocket Tag went down. I slipped into one of the last rounds of…
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Modern Warfare 2 Bigger than Lady Gaga and Transformers Combined
No disc – game, CD, DVD, whatever – sold more in 2009 than Modern Warfare 2, in the U.K. anyway, where the game bested phenomena such as Lady Gaga and Susan Boyle, and standbys like James Bond and Harry Potter. Modern Warfare 2‘s sales triumph over all games of 2009 is common knowledge, but it’s…
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Troubled Star Left Out of NBA Jam Roster
NBA all-star Gilbert Arenas, whose joking pistols-at-dawn challenge to a pissed-off teammate was no laughing matter to the league, is absent from fan voting on the NBA Jam roster. EA Sports says it’s not entirely because of his legal troubles. Speaking to The Sporting News‘ First Cuts blog, an Electronic Arts spokesman attributed Arenas’ absence…
By Owen Good
