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A Long December
To: Luke From: Owen Re: Why Don’t You Like Gingerbread Men? Why? I’m not sure if I’ve ever been more ready for a month or a year to be over. In fact, I’d love to declare 2008 complete right now, by acclamation. Like a crap hand of Hearts, I’ll eat the rest of the cards,…
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Anyone Want to Buy Free Radical?
TimeSplitters developer Free Radical Design is now officially up for sale, providing the end-all verification to a set of rumors about the company about a week ago. The word last week had Free Radical founder Steve Ellis setting up shop at a new studio, called Pumpkin Beach, taking with him some of his former company’s…
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Sunday Funnies: 360 Origins, Console Reviews, Storage is Gangsta
Here’s another roundup of multimedia laffs culled from the Interwebs. I make no representations of the freshness/expiration/ enjoy-by dates of any of this, only that I consider it gaming germane, and, at minimum, grimace-inducing. First up, a 4chan MS paint rage-meme cartoon figures out the origin of the Xbox 360 name. Oh Microsoft! You steal…
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Home is Where You Can’t Say “Hello”?
Anything as deep and complex as PlayStation Home is bound to have its growing pains. SCEA’s hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle, took a look at some, including some hypersensitive chat filtering. For a time, seems “hello” was filtered out of chat (I’m assuming this is if a user entered it from a keypad himself,…
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Former NBA Big Man Now Serious Pinball Gamer
Earlier this decade, Todd MacCulloch was a center with a lot of promise, and a lot of money. A foot injury sent him into early retirement. Now he collects and plays pinball machines. MacCulloch was forced into retirement at age 28 by a nerve condition in his foot — basically, parts of his feet would…
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WeeP5: Badass Case, Same Old Rate of Fire
When Nintendo says it puts more smiles on more faces, I’m sure it’s not including the maniacal grin one must get blasting away raving Rabbids with this gangsta MP5 mod. User THeOReos joined Instructables on Christmas day just to show us how to put this bad bastard together. Disappointed with the variety of gun cases…
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Study: Video Game Physiques Give Guys Body Image Issues, Too
Playing as super buffed up hunky dudes can make men insecure, according to a Kansas State study. But read on, if these stories are correct, this piece of scholarship has some serious problems. The study’s investigators themselves say other factors may contribute to one’s perception of body-image. But, after watching groups of men and women…
By Owen Good
