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Comic: Super Teenage Mario Bros. #6
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Cheat Sheet 7/15: DMC art contest hints at new title, Just Dance 2 takes home the best-seller trophy
Fuel up with some easy mainstream videogame news! –Star Fox 64 3D has landed! –Just Dance 2 can whip out a victory jig since being named the best-selling third-party Wii game of all time. –CoD: Black Ops Annihilation DLC maps will be coming to PSN in a couple of weeks. -Don’t miss the dev chat for
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Here’s a Slide Show of People’s Faces as they Play Videogames
Who says games can’t cause us to feel emotion? Phillip Toledano’s series of photographs depicts the best gaming faces of nine different players. We witness several expressions besides the stereotypical “killer face” – though it’s there a couple of times just for good measure. It’s worth noting that
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Pricey Retro Glasses Cost More Than Extra Life
You’ll need to find more than 100 coins to buy and wear these pixelated shades, designed by Dzmitry Samal (above). Each pair costs 198 Euro, or around $280. According to the online product description, the design is meant to “deliberately [reflect] society’s fascination with an ‘informational aesthe
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Solid Snake voice actor David Hayter channels the Danish prince
Actor/screenwriter —and voice of Solid Snake—David Hayter has his acting chops put to the test by host Cecily Jenkins on an episode of Youtube series “Nerd News”. Skip to about 5:00 to experience Hayter dressed as Solid Snake, headband and all, performing what begins as an aptly dramatic delivery of
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War Hero Discovers Himself in A Computer Game
It’s not every day you discover yourself explicitly recreated in a war game, but that’s exactly what happened to Lt Col Andy Harrison: The decorated officer’s “avatar” stands in full British Army uniform, with body armour and an SA80 rifle in the game, which is set in the fictional war-torn countr
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Cheat Sheet 7/14: Sony invests in exclusive downloads, two million people to test CoD community feature
Dig into some more mainstream videogame news! -Check out the new trailer for Paradox’s Pirates of the Black Cove. -Two million people heard the call to beta test Call of Duty Elite. -Sony and Namco unite to form Cellius. -Take a look at this gameplay preview of Steel Chronicle from Konami. -Sony
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Comic: Super Teenage Mario Bros. #5
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BBC journalist loses WWII in Hearts of War III, learns experience is the hardest teacher
Back in January, BBC journalist Paul Mason documented his attempt to re-fight WWII in real-time strategy game Hearts of Iron III. Playing as France, Mason was putting a historical theory to the test: if the Allies had declared war in 1938 to defend Czechoslovakia against the Germans, the war might h
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The Einstein robot that can emote is just one more step toward Blade Runner
How far do you think robotics have come? Before you can finish saying “ASIMO”, get to know the Einstein-resembling robot which, thanks to scientists at the University of California, has learned various facial expressions by looking in a mirror and mimicking (so to speak): It randomly moved its 30 f
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Cheat Sheet 7/13: Capcom plans game debut at ComicCon, EA founder sees Zynga as hope for game innovation
Now let’s zoom through some more mainstream videogame news! – Get the latest details on Team Meat’s The Binding of Isaac. –Watch Tim Schafer pitch Once Upon a Monster to Cookie Monster. –Capcom plans to introduce a new game at ComicCon. –Take a look at these screens for A Game of Thrones: Genesis.
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Nadal, Murray Battle for #1… in FIFA
Novak Djokovic might have won Wimbledon this year. But the real competition was up in the players’ hotel rooms. Perennial champ Rafael Nadal and Scotsman Andy Murray face off regularly, both on the court and on the digital pitch of their PS3, The Herald Scotland reported. The trash talking ahead of