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While we were busy fine-tuning our Game of the Year list, torrent sites were tallying up the most pirated software of the year. Crysis 2 comes out on top in the PC games category in 2011. On Xbox 360 Gears of War 3 receives the same honor, while Super Mario Galaxy 2 scoops the title of most pirated
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Using a deck of cards and city planning skills similar to those used in Sim City, Jerry Gretzinger has been plotting out a map of an imaginary world, which has taken on a life of its own. The result is an endless, procedurally dynamic work of art that could be called a solitary game of Civilization.
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My New Years resolution: No more posts about Legos… after this one! The Guardian has accounted for 2011 by collecting the most memorable events of the year built in Lego, including the royal wedding, 11-11-11, and OWS. Seeing alien protesters being pepper-sprayed kind of helps me get over how incred
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Finally, a toy for all the parents of kids begging for a new puppy but don’t realize what it means to walk and feed one every day! Or failing that, what better way is there to teach your child the importance of a balanced breakfast than with a fuzzy dancing bacon doll that continually proclaims its
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The first thing I thought when I tried out the recently updated Xbox dashboard was that it didn’t look too bad. The second thing I thought was “I CAN’T FIND INDIE GAMES!” It turns out, they have been stuck under a layers of menus where they are likely to go unseen, and indie developers are unhappy.
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Kotaku recently ran an interesting piece about a UK treatment group preparing to tackle gaming as the latest manifestation of addictive behavior. Brian Crecente reports: Their study found that more than a third of those surveyed above the age of 16 think they know of at least one person addicted to
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In a move that does not portend well for their future as an airline, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is rolling out a new feature that allows passengers the option to choose their seatmates by looking at their Facebook profile (sorry, “timeline”). If you like each other, you sit together. Kind of like OkCu
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Games Brief reports some good news and some bad news regarding games in the iTunes App Store. First, the bad news: four percent of iOS games make significant money, aka over a million dollars. But the good news is some games make a lot more than a million dollars! Infinity Blade has made, like, twen
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You’ve probably heard plenty already about academic/prankster Ian Bogost’s Cow Clicker, his honest attempt to troll Farmville that turned out to be a quite clickable Facebook game in its own right. I know I have. But it never ceases to amaze me how devoted some players are to clicking cows. A recent
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Bitmob has a post detailing something we already knew already: there is stuff in videogames that might kill you. But the list is worth checking out, especially if you didn’t already know to avoid the giants in Skyrim, or that if your avatar encounters a shark in any game ever, you’re probably hosed.
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Naughty Dog’s Uncharted series boasts an expert level of voice acting and dialogue, alongside equally impressive environmental and character artwork bringing the charm of Indiana Jones to PS3. But in a recent talk with Eurogamer, creative director and writer Neil Druckmann said Naughty Dog still has
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Aaron Rasmussen and Michael T. Astolfi are developing a game based solely on audio cues. Inspired by personal experience, Blindside is being developed first as a short, forty-five minute episode for the PC and Mac. It’s called BlindSide, and it’s one of the first games to bring a brand new gaming ex