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Out Outs the ‘Gayest’ Video Games
Out.com, the online presence of the gay lifestyle magazine Out, has selected its “Gayest Video Games.” This is like pouring jet fuel on a thermite-and-napalm salad, but these are games that trip their gaydar, not ones straight people call “gay.” “Super Mario Bros.: Cleaning pipes and taking names,” goes the first entry. We can see…
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Week in Games: Everybody Wants Some
The Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles saga continues with the Crystal Bearers, which makes its North American release the day after Christmas. Other highlights include Guitar Hero: Van Halen, for those who didn’t buy Guitar Hero 5 back in September. Another interesting release is 0-Day Attack on Earth, a downloadable title Square Enix is releasing to…
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Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •Fifteen Games that Defined the PlayStation Brand [Joystick Division] On the 15th birthday of the original PlayStation, Joystick Division looks at 15 games that helped…
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Rumor: Four More Characters Coming to SSFIV [Updated]
Street Fighter enthusiasts began immediately picking through Famitsu’s live streaming demo of Super Street Fighter IV last week, and one site believes it’s found a bombshell: Four additional, unnanounced characters will be coming to the game. Update: But it is and it isn’t. Way back in September, a longtime Shoryuken forums contributor posted the names…
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Uncharted 2 Art, Straight from the Artists Themselves
With Uncharted 2 out and scarfing up a bathtub of major awards, especially for visuals, the games’ creators are showing us how it was built. Several Naughty Dog artists have posted a ton of art in this thread. Richard Diamant, ND’s lead character artist, was joined by Darcy Korch, Bryan Wynia, Nichol Norman, Behrooz Roozbeh…
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The Advent Calendar of Indie Games
Little doors and fun-sized prizes aren’t just for the kitchen wall. The Indie Games Advent Calendar reveals a new game each day counting down to Christmas. It’s a neat way to see what’s out there and support indie devs. We’ve featured Advent calendars as a gaming theme before, but this one appears new. Started by…
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Sony Piques ‘Qriocity’ by Registering that Trademark
This always happens in threes. Yesterday we saw the magic words tipping off Nintendo and Microsoft’s next projects. Today brings word that Sony’s having fun with high-scoring Scrabble consonants again, registering “Qriocity” not for a game – but a network. From the company that brought you “Qore” and “Xross Media Bar,” that one is pronounced…
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The Atari 2600 ‘Jukebox’
Not content with just stuffing a card full of ROMs inside the old-school Atari VCS case, one modder installed an LED screen in the cartridge bay that allows the operator to cycle through and select games. Hack-a-Day says the console has “somewhere around 1200 ROMs” on an SD card inside the case. With the three…
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Investor’s Big Stake in Take-Two Reignites Buyout Chatter
The notorious investor Carl Icahn disclosed late this week he owns more than 11 percent of Take-Two’s shares, a stake large enough to restart talk that the publisher faces a buyout. In an SEC filing, Icahn declared his ownership of more than nine million shares, worth $70.6 million, and included his opinion that Take-Two’s shares…
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Ubi Trademarks “Ghost Recon Future Soldier”
No details other than what’s on the USPTO’s web site. Ubisoft filed it on Monday and the mark covers video games, so you know Ubi’s not getting into the lunchbox or breakfast cereal business. Although a Ghost Recon lunchbox would be kind of badass, now that I think about it. And Ghost Recon cereal? Tasty.…
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Games Watchdog Looks Back Before Turning Out the Lights
As reported earlier, the National Institute on Media and the Family, whose key funding dried up in a terrible economy, is closing. Founder Dave Walsh talked with the Associated Press, and reflected on his organization’s influence in the industry. “Ten years ago, a kid 10 years old could walk into any store in America and…
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Blank N64 Cartridge Challenges Your Manhood [Updated]
Meanwhile, in the make-believe land of eBayia, someone’s auctioning a “mysteriously blank Nintendo 64 cartridge” – promising only that the game works and doesn’t suck. “Are you man enough to buy a label-less N64 game?” No, but Saxton Hale is! “Yes, this game is missing its labels, leaving the games identity indiscernible. However, everything else…
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Is ‘WiiRelax’ the Vitality Sensor’s Debut Title?
In April, an Italian company announced “Wii Relax.” Siliconera notes that, not only is that company’s product site gone, Nintendo has now trademarked “WiiRelax” in Europe. Maybe they muscled in on the name after seeing I had shrewdly registered “WiiSittingOnOne’sAss.” The trademark filing Siliconera found is good in PAL territories. Naturally, one immediately thinks of…
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Let’s Tap — to Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. is meant for tap-dancing, and I don’t mean on a Goomba’s head. Here’s Brentalfloss’s college buddy, C.K. Edwards – he appears in Billy Elliot on Broadway – whose dancing makes the theme sound all the more vaudeville. “Did you notice around :49 his tapping actually shook change off my desk and onto my…
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The Saboteur is Le Patched, But Will Need un Autre, Soon
The Saboteur‘s PC version had big problems out of the box – something like 9 out of 10 ATI-equipped systems couldn’t make it work properly. The remnants of Pandemic have rolled a patch, but be sure to read it carefully. While the 13.8MB patch should fix the ATI issues, Electronic Arts wants you to accept…
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