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Today’s Punishment: Pick Your Poison
We realize that one gamer’s pain is another’s pleasure, so in an effort to diversify the punishment around here, today’s session will give you several choices. You may select from: • Five minutes of Shaq Fu gameplay: Needs no introduction. One of the worst game concepts of all time. • A Nine-Minute Minesweeper Tutorial: Really,…
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Watch People Play Games on UK TV
Last weekend, the UK network Bravo – unrelated to the U.S. channel, BTW – launched something called “Game Face,” tilted toward casual gamers, presumably ones with wads of disposable income. Former MTV boss Peter Einstein is behind the show, and he thinks he knows why video game shows “have failed in the past.” From what…
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Speechifyin’ Euro Gamers Can Get Into MAG Trailer
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has put out a call for battlefield speeches written by gamers, saying the best will be professionally recorded for use in an upcoming Massive Action Game trailer. Here are the catches: Looks like this is restricted to PSN account holders in Europe. Update: Specifically, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden and…
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Brütal Legend Soundtrack Confirmed
The complete Brütal Legend soundtrack that we first reported yesterday, apparently going out early from an EA Denmark site, has been confirmed as authentic by Double Fine chief Tim Schafer. Schafer had this to say in a statement to GameDaily: This soundtrack took years to put together as we wanted to represent every genre of…
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Madden Simulates NFL Season; We Offer Predictions, Too
As it does every year, EA Sports simulated the upcoming football season on Madden NFL 10 and determined that, yes, New England is a great team, and the AFC and NFC West remain as weak as a free casino drink. Hardly takes Nate Silver to make such grandiose calls, but EA’s sim gave us the…
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Humorous How-to Tackles NES Installation
As anyone who’s ever tangled with an RF switcher knows, hooking up consoles in the old days was more plug and less play. Helpfully the gang at Shamoozal have put together this step-by-step look at rigging up your Nintendo Entertainment System. It’s done in the style of the old Disney explainers with Goofy as the…
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GameStop Pre-Order Reveals BioShock Multiplayer Characters
“Blanche the Actress” and “Zigo the Fisherman” will be available as multiplayer character classes with a pre-order of BioShock 2, according to an upcoming GameStop promotion that someone in the game’s forum spotted. For the record, these are the first two multiplayer classes announced for the game. The best we can get for pictures are…
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The First Football Game in Cowboys Stadium
Was, for the record, a game of Madden NFL 10, on a PlayStation 3. PlayStation and EA Sports invited more than 200 fans to the NFL’s newest stadium on Saturday to battle it out on Cowboys’ Stadium’s big screen, which has been the scene of video gameplay before. The event played out during the Cowboys’…
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Ice T Plays Call of Duty, Loses Shit, Demands Snapple, Rings Cliffy B
All in a day’s work for the CSI Law & Order: SVU star. As Jace Hall admires Coco’s plastic attributes, Ice gets killed by friendly fire, beckons for a soft drink, and then discusses casting decisions with Cliff Bleszinski. Giz put this up yesterday, alongside a video of Ice destroying a six-year-old MacBook. It was…
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Mario was Put in Punch-Out Without Permission
The latest “Iwata Asks” bull session regards Punch-Out!!! – the NES original, not the Wii sequel – and it’s quite revealing. Especially when designer Makoto Wada (pictured) pipes up. Wada-san, who came aboard Nintendo right around the time the Punch-Out!!! port for the NES was being created, spills two interesting details. The first is that…
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A Tribute to One of the Last Sports Game Gods
As any sports gamer – or anyone who’s seen Swingers – can tell you, Jeremy Roenick in NHL ’94 was the definition of unstoppable force. Score, win fights, deliver punishing checks, it was all automatic for Roenick. Roenick retired this past week, and Patrick Hruby (Hey! I know that guy!) writes an eloquent tribute to…
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Bioware Confirms Dragon Age: Origins Delay
You’re gonna have to wait another fortnight to get your brothel goat sex. The rumblings from retailers yesterday have been backed up by Bioware today. Dragon Age: Origins‘ new release date is November 3. BioWare told IGN: “Dragon Age Origins will be released on November 3rd in North America and November 6th in Europe for…
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Music Video Done 4-Bit Style
Arman Bohn, formerly of the band Eureka Farm where he played alongside current members of Deathcab for Cutie, has put out an album inspired by the Atari games of his youth. This video is “No Escape!” and in addition to its visual style, adds a nice story to make it eminently watchable. The music, self-described…
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Latency Makes Multiplayer a Real Bitch on Mars
Depending on the orbit, it takes between four and 20 minutes for information traveling at light speed to get from Earth to Mars. So, we’re not going to be playing Killzone against Martians anytime soon. Edge Online’s Chris Dahlen talked to some folks at NASA and answered the rather easy question that, yes, real-time communications…
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Today’s Punishment: The Nintendo Cereal System
Even though it’s only 30 seconds, and you’ll probably make it all the way through, today’s punishment is having that obnoxious goddamn "NIN-TEN-DO!!!!" stuck in your head for the rest of the day. That, plus watching a knockoff cast of “Head of the Class” dance their way through World 1-1 got me to bail at…
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EA Denmark Drops Brütal Legend’s Complete Soundtrack
It figures that, when the Brütal Legend soundtrack was revealed, it would come out of a place like Denmark. They take their metal seriously, and EA Denmark has the list of more than 100 songs in the game. Here is the list, according to the page (translated to English), which I screenshot just in case…
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Yep. BioShock 2 Wine Bottles Already on eBay
Someday we’re going to see the minute-zero swag/collectible/promo item listing on eBay, I swear it. Two bottles from this morning’s BioShock 2 beachcomber event are on the auction site, going for up to $56 and $76 as of early afternoon. According to the listings, both are sealed and still have their posters inside. Here’s one…
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Wait a Sec, Will Tekken 6 PSP Have DLC, or Not? [Update: Answer is Not]
A Namco Bandai spokesman initially says portable fight fans will see all the trappings of Tekken 6 in the PSP version – DLC included. Then he appears to backtrack. Talking to Siliconera, Arne Cual-Pedroso, the Namco public relations manager, said “pretty much everything in the console version will be in the PSP.” That led to…
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Hey, Spidey’s Pink in VC Shinobi
Revenge of Shinobi, for Genesis, went through a tortured history thanks to someone’s decision to make the Hulk, Batman, Spider-Man, etc. into bosses, without paying to license them. Eventually, Sega was able to license Spider-Man for the game. But now that it’s on the NIntendo Virtual Console, pretty good bet that deal has expired or…
By Owen Good