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Cheat Sheet 2/27: The next Resident Evil, more Borderlands 2 classes, and the Be Mine bundle
And with Monday winding down, here’s today’s gaming news: – Pokémon White 2 and Black 2 have both been announced as the next Pokémon games. – Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City is coming out March 20th for PS3 and Xbox 360, but PC fans will have to wait until May. – Borderlands 2 has released de
Junot Díaz is writing another book and we’re psyched.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is certainly one of the coolest, most bizarre books ever to win a Pulitzer-it seemed like you needed to take constant trips to Wikipedia to understand the whole thing if you didn’t have a working knowledge of Lord of the Rings, Dungeons & Dragons and also Latin A
When will we see a great biographical game?
Writing biography is hard. Basically, you have to learn about every single part of a person’s life and then filter out the boring stuff, which must be maddening. In a recent interview with The Millions, Scott Donaldson, who’s written biographies of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Earnest Hemingway and Winfield
How should a pro gamer reach the next level?
The contents of this article are not meant to be taken as serious medical advice! Mankind has always been competitive; first for food, then women, then territory, and finally just for fun. Games have codified competition into ritual, but whether it’s pick-up basketball or the Olympics, man’s desire
The man who modernized pinball machines passed away.
We’re sad to report that Steve Kordek, the inventor of the two-flipper pinball machine, died last Saturday at the age of 100. He will be missed. Time reports: In an interview with the New York Times, Pinball author Roger Sharpe says the two-flipper design was only part of Kordek’s revolutionary cont
Cheat Sheet 2/24: Jet Grind Radio coming back, SEN going down, and the free-to-play craze
Here’s the rest of today’s news: – Sega released a teaser suggesting that Jet Grind Radio is coming to Xbox Live Arcade and Sony Entertainment Network at some point. – SEN is going down for scheduled maintenance next week. – Blizzard may be working on a free-to-play game, Everquest is going free-
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