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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
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
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
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
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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