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PAX Cosplay Round 3 – FIGHT!
It’s the final day of PAX 2009, and that means the final round of cosplay photos, captured not by Adam Barenblat, but by myself and AJ, the cosplay backup crew. If you see duplicates from the previous two days in this gallery, appreciate the fact that you are getting a different look at cosplayers you’ve…
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Week in Games: Ticket to Ride [Updated]
John and George croaked, Ed Sullivan’s dead, Shea Stadium was should have been imploded (and also declared a SuperFund waste site with a half-life expiring in the year 9967) but instead was dismantled. But The Beatles return on Thursday Wednesday. Dirt 2 is the big drop occupying the traditional Tuesday spot. Other Tuesday values in…
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Inside CCP’s Succubus Club
Step inside The Succubus Club as we share some rather bad photos and a couple of video clips from CCP’s infamous goth meets geek party event. People walking about in vinyl clothing; barely dressed women writhing about on stage; and men performing the art of fire poi for screaming women in the audience – this…
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UC-Irvine Establishes Games Research Center
The University of California-Irvine, already home to a game culture lab, has established the Center for Computer Games & Virtual Worlds. Twenty faculty members from the university’s computer science, humanities, education and other departments will collaborate on its work. The mission of the Center for Computer Games & Virtual Worlds, according to a university statement,…
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Shank Preview: The Beat-Em Up Reloaded
Klei Entertainment takes on the side-scrolling beat-em up with Shank, managing to create something fresh and compelling from a genre that’s grown old and stale. What Is It? Shank taps the talent of Atomic Betty director Jeffrey Agala to create its striking graphic novel look and feel, but it takes more than a fresh coat…
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PS4 Concept: Spider-Man Font Fail
Someone forgot to tell acclaimed designer Tai Chiem that Sony bagged the Spidey typeface with the PS3 Slim. But the rest of this concept – that means This Is Not Real – is super-futuristic cool. Wait, where’s the $24 kickstand? It’s one of three concepts he did; including an “Xbox 720” which looks like –…
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First Footage Of The Old Republic’s Trooper In Action
During today’s Star Wars: The Old Republic panel at PAX 09, BioWare showed us our first glimpse of the Republic’s Trooper class in action, and we’re passing the savings on to you! Not only do we have footage of the Trooper, which is The Old Republic’s version of the Clone and eventual Storm, Sand, Snow,…
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And Now It’s PS3 Games’ Turn for a Best Buy Sale
As speculated in our Coupons comments yesterday, Best Buy has indeed begun a two-for-1.5 sale on all PS3 titles. The bonanza lasts until Sept. 12. The deal involves “qualifying games” but with 140 on the list, it’s practically all PS3 games priced $59.99 or less, It does not cover preorders. Basically, you pay full price…
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Xbox Live’s Top Cop Reads ‘The Book of Enforcement’
Stephen Toulouse gave a presentation at PAX that, like most of his outreach, leavened the dirty work of running Xbox Live’s banhammer ops with comedy. His sermon is about how the wicked “Poonhunter” came to be banned from Battlefield 1943. Stepto’s presentation continued well after the above excerpt. The rest of the address is full…
By Owen Good