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"I was kept with zombies." A South African musician returns from the dead.
In a story that seems to be from the fictional world of Resident Evil, a man claiming to be the dead Khulekani Kwakhe “Mgqumeni” Mseleku, a famous African Zulu musician, has emerged at the artist’s home near Dundee. His explanation: Zombies. According to Times Live: Mgqumeni… apparently died in Dece
PAUSE: Someone beat Super Mario Bros in the time it takes you to go through your Twitter feed.
Official Nintendo Magazine UK reports that the record for shortest play-through of Super Mario Bros has been broken a gamer named Andrew Gardakis. At four minutes and fifty-eight seconds, his game of Mario took less time than it did for me to create this entire post. Watch the mezmerizing video belo
In which we look at a fishing game for existentialists.
Fishing games are weird. They’re not exactly fun, because there’s only so many ways to catch a virtual fish, and most of them involve sitting in a virtual boat or standing on a virtual pier. Outdoors Unlimited, an upcoming “outdoors RPG,” hopes to change all that, mainly by taking that idea to its m
Why acne is better for videogames than you might think.
Ok, so who played Gears of War and thought to themselves “wow I really had trouble identifying with that Marcus Fenix dude UNTIL I realized he has neck acne”? Apparently the minds behind this new stunning facial modeling technology known as Separable Subsurface Scattering (SSS) did, given how they
Morning Cheat Sheet 2/10/12: Blizzard’s "Diablo III", Indie Game Music Bundle 2, and terrible game retail sales.
Here’s this morning’s gaming news. –NPD reports that US game retail sales have fallen a dismal 34 percent. -You can now name your price for the second Indie Game Music Bundle. -Double Fine broke records by raising 1 MILLION dollars within 24 hours on Kickstarter. -The Playstation Blog has posted a
Cheat Sheet 2/9/12: Double Fine’s next game and their crazy strategy, Skyrim 1.4, and Super Meat Boy going portable.
And here’s this afternoon’s wrap-up of the day’s gaming news. – Double Fine’s Tim Schafer used Kickstarter to pitch the world on a new adventure game. In an extremely cool showing of fan support and loyalty, they exceeded the $400,000 goal overnight. – Skyrim has hit patch 1.4. But in some even cool
How Angry Birds is helping you fight Alzheimer’s.
A new study conducted by the Archives of Neurology suggests that playing games (the “brain stimulating” kind, mind you) might “improve your memory and delay or prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s disease,” lending casual game lovers an impassioned defense: …scientist are finding that many games requiri
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