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Happy Anniversary
To: Luke From: Owen Re: The Weekend is Made for Comic-Con This week is pretty special in my family. Dad’s birthday is July 20, an easy one to remember, as he watched Apollo 11 reach the moon on a black and white TV on his 20th birthday, knowing the world would never be the same…
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World at War Map Pack 3 Adds 10 New Achievements
The four maps – three regular, one zombie – being added next month to Call of Duty: World at War will bring with them 10 new achievements, one of them hinting at some unusual weaponry. “Acquire Waffle Weapons!” is earned once you pick up the “Ray Gun,” “DG-2” and “Monkey Bomb” at the same time.…
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Assassin’s Creed II Coming to DS?
VG247 is reporting that a DS version of Assassin’s Creed 2 will be released with the other platform versions on Nov. 20. Amazon’s got a product page up about it, too. Ordinarily, retailers listing a game with an unconfirmed platform version shouldn’t rate much attention. It could be mis-entered into a system somewhere. But VG247…
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11-Year-Old Exposed to Contra for the First Time, Hates It
The old-school gamers at Nerdballoon sat down with a slightly uncommunicative 11-year-old and asked him to describe his first experience ever with a platform shooter – the beloved Contra. Predictably, he hated it. The graphics “suck,” the music is “boring” and – I’m not sure if this is a positive or a negative – “it’s…
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About This Nascent Modern Warfare 2 “Boycott”
Someone ran a poll and, guess what, two out of three people hate paying higher prices. This is called a potential boycott of Modern Warfare 2, unless Activision lowers the $60 price for PC versions. Total Gaming Network, citing its own poll of the situation, says 68 percent of respondents “will not support the newer,…
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Booth Babe Hauls Off on Dante’s Fiasco
“The brass BALLS on EA to put a bounty on OTHER booth girls,” writes one woman, a costumed rep fed up with the predictable reactions to EA’s “Sin to Win” promo at San Diego Comic-Con. “Iola,” commenting on Ars Technica, one of the first and loudest to decry the Dante’s Inferno “Acts of Lust” contest…
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Week in Games: First Resort
Swordplay, archery and skydiving are on tap as of today with the release of Wii Sports Resort. Also, Marvel vs. Capcom 2 hits Xbox Live Marketplace and Bionic Commando arrives on the PC. This week’s count: six for PC, four for DS, three for Wii, two for 360 and one for PS3 Sunday (July 26)…
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Today’s Punishment: We Cheer, in Japanese
This has a run-up of about 30 seconds, but immediately after that, you’ll be running for the nearest bottle of Texas Pete. To pour it on your eyeballs. I tap out at about 41 seconds, right when the Hey!-ing stops and the singin’ starts. How long can you last? BTW, I haven’t done a great…
By Owen Good