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Enjoy some post-Labor Day mainstream videogame news! –New FAQ reveals Diablo III beta details. -Sony’s SVP of public relations Rob Dyer accuses Microsoft of using an exclusivity stipulation to protect “an inferior product.“ -Check out Yoshinori Ono on the future of fighting games and more. –Dragon
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Making Systems Checking More Fun Hacking a system may be analogous to a would-be thief looking for an open window, but its reality looks pretty different. Trying different command codes (and I’m guessing on vocab here) to obtain entry goes through a process of using language to unlock a system buil
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Depending on who you ask, Minecraft is either one of the most awesome or most annoying games in recent memory. On one hand, it’s more or less a virtual Lego set that, if you’ve got the time and creativity, gives you a digital palate upon which to get your Picasso on. On the other, it’s just a game w
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If, just like me, you’re straddling the line of regular poverty and abject poverty, there’s nothing worse dropping sixty dollars on a game I end up playing three times, and then get frustrated with and repurpose as a drink coaster. It’s, like, the worst thing ever. I could have used that sixty bucks
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Deep down, we all share an anxiety about technology taking over the world for the worse, from transhumanism in Deus Ex to the malicious artificial intelligence of Portal. But more and more we’ve been hearing of advanced technologies being utilized for compassionate, positive reasons. Such is the cas
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Nothing revs our engine like instant mainstream videogame news! -Activision Blizzard chief is ready for world domination. -Have an Assassin’s Creed fan video? Ubisoft’s new video contest offers you the chance to win a Sony Home Theater Entertainment Package. -DICE has released new details on Battl
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We all know the stereotype of that awkward kid: once the image of the nervous, skinny teenager with the pocket protector that got shoved into lockers and did everyone’s homework. Maybe you got shoved. Maybe you did the shoving. Now we know him (or her) as the nervous, awkward kid who knows his/her w
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Let’s start the new month right, with mainstream videogame news! –Batman: Arkham City to offer a New Game Plus. -Double Fine releases arcade soundtrack by Razbert. -Nintendo’s 3DS Ambassador Programme goes live. -Bethesda takes bug squishing more seriously. –Check out the newest Mass Effect 3 sc
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Need to kill ten minutes? Head over to Boing Boing, where they’ve created a game that assigns you a random story, and then you take your brave pixel out into the world and try to snatch up other pixels and fight against even more pixels. Don’t like the storyline you’ve been given? Just press “refres
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In the wake of one economic disaster after the other, it makes sense that some might seek out an alternative way to buy and sell goods, one unaffected by inflation or the whims of Ben Bernanke. In the latest issue of Technology Review, James Surowiecki explores one such option, the Bitcoin, that is
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Have another helping of instant mainstream videogame news! –The Haunted: Hell’s Reach has been picked up by THQ. -Gearbox’s next Duke Nukem game to be better, if it happens. -Former THQ employees have leaked footage and art from a cancelled Avengers game. –Tim Schafer and Cookie Monster return fo
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New York City has been called many things: The City That Never Sleeps, the Big Apple, Gotham. Jesse Eisemann thought it reminded him of another place altogether: The Mushroom Kingdom. Eisemann, writer and illustrator for CollegeHumor.com, has created an interactive map of the five boroughs in the in