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Given their particular ability to suck away your life with endless loops of gameplay and gear-hunting, many people tend to think of the decision to play a particularly MMO as a lifestyle choice hardcore gamers make not unlike marriage—an allegedly permanent commitment you find yourself increasingly
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One more time, say it with me: Mainstream gaming news. – Blizzard and Valve have finally come to legal blows over the DotA trademark. – Adam Adamowicz, hugely influential artist of Fallout 3 and Skyrim, passed away two days ago. -Frictional Games, makers of Amnesia: The Dark Descent teased their nex
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SSX is coming back to consoles in a big way later this month, leaving many of us to wonder just how crazy the sport really is IRL. Wired has this great set of photos up that makes the game’s Skyrim-like terrains and promised boss battles with the mountains themselves seem more founded in reality tha
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Brandon Williamson, the creator of the modern retro arcade game (Whoa, that’s a lot of descriptors!) Forget-Me-Not, has posted some pictures of a hypothetical sequel to his critical hit. Forget-Me-Not came in on our best of year poll tied for 22nd place, and it had me hypnotized for a couple of week
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In a recent article over at Slashfilm, McG, director of the upcoming spy romcom This Means War talked about the prospect of having multiple endings in a blockbuster film. The movie’s premise seems to lend itself to the idea: two spy best friends (Tom Hardy and Chris Pine) discover they are both dati
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While they aren’t quite as handy as Batman vision in Arkham City, these stainless-steel cuffs, which contain maps of subway systems, are more fashionable than a cape and rubber suit. I say even more accessories need the in-game treatment. For instance, I’d love to see a pair of retro Puma’s made of
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Developer Dice Hate Me Games has created game about the coffee industry. In VivaJava, players send their researchers to hot spots around the globe to gather the perfect bean. The game seems destined to entertain strategy geeks, and has a wry sense of humor (“Twin Perks”, anyone?). The project has al
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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