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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…
By Owen Good
