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Papers, Please
To: Luke From: Owen Re: An Excellent Intern This week I went to get my Oregon driver’s license. Unlike other state DMVs, you don’t walk out the door with your card here. While the main office in Salem approves things, you carry around a provisional license on a piece of printed paper, which looks like…
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A Mindblowing Stop-Motion Lego Homage to Games
“8-Bit Trip,” according to its Swedish creators took 1,500 hours to animate. They pay respect to everything from International Karate on a tape drive to Tetris on the NES, with Pong and Pac-Man in between. The music was written by Daniel Larsson and the animation was done by Tomas Redigh, of the Swedish electronica duo…
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Weekend Timewaster: Turn-Based Battle
This flash-game parody of JRPGs perfectly nails every device, trope, conceit and theme of the genre. Hang in there – even if the odds seem ridiculous, someone shows up to give you 200 gold to buy the JRPG sword. At which point you face even more stupid-ridiculous odds, and the game becomes either a snide…
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Dad’s Tribute: Call of Duty on Soldier Son’s Grave
Touching? Whether a man and his son enjoy kicking a football or playing a video game together, who’s to judge. But there is a helpless irony in seeing Call of Duty left on the grave of a fallen soldier. In Wales, the 200th U.K. soldier to die in the Afghanistan conflict was memorialized this weekend.…
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Molyneux: Hate Mail Changed Fable II DLC
I guess this rates a spoiler alert, nearly a year after the fact. But the dilemma presented at the end of Fable II so outraged some players that they took to writing good old-fashioned hate mail to Peter Molyneux. In an interview on the choices the Fable series forces its player to make, Molyneux said…
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Video of Kurt Cobain, Matt Bellamy in Guitar Hero 5
Two videos out in the wild show Guitar Hero 5 gameplay and two rockers as whom you may perform – well, in the Quicktime events anyway. Matt Bellamy of Muse, and Kurt Cobain of … does he need further identification? These vids were uploaded to DailyMotion by user SchnackAttack. Here is Cobain, performing, what else,…
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Week in Games: Inmates and the Asylum
Batman: Arkham Asylum, delayed from a summer release and yet still stoked by an excellent demo, is this week’s AAA console drop. Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box arrives on DS tomorrow, and NBA 2K10: Draft Combine hits XBLA Wednesday. This week’s count: 10 for the DS, six for the PC, five for the 360…
By Owen Good