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Cheat Sheet 6/3: Penny Arcade move, fan-made TF2 vids, Wappy the DS Dog
We know mainstream videogame news is tough to keep up with. Help has arrived: –Konami remasters Metal Gear Solid, Zone of Enders, & Silent Hill for PS3. -All hail Wappy, the Nintendo DS-controlled dog. -Zynga preps a public filing. -Best fan-made Team Fortress videos announced. -EA starts its own di
Today on Kill Screen: Terraria as the anti-Minecraft
If Minecraft has the elegant structure of a haiku, Terraria is a washed-up Beat poet who hasn’t slept for three nights, scrawling on sheets of paper-eccentric, eclectic, but still able to enthrall. Minecraft boasts a Zen-like lack of objectives and worldly possessions, but Terrariais filled with gad
PAUSE: Matthew Williamson’s ASCII jumble is Dwarf Fortress meets iPhone
Not sure how else to describe it. [via]
June 2, 2011, 10:00 am
Soccer star Maradona sues Chinese company that allegedly wronged him. Argentinian soccer star Diego Maradona (who knows a thing or two about foul play) is unhappy with a Chinese company that he says stole his likeness. From China Daily: The9 Limited, an online game operator and developer in China, l
Cheat Sheet 6/2: X-Men on iOS, MW3 multiplayer details, a Portal 2 robot walks
We know mainstream videogame news can be a slog. Here’s some help. -The PlayStation Store returns. -Classic arcade X-Men surprises the App Store. –Minecraft doc makers want your story. –Dirt 3 charity DLC represents. -Another Portal 2 robot lives. -Two decades-old Madden lawsuit wrinkles EA. –Modern
