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Super Mario Bros. Level 1 Recreated On A…Mobius Strip?
Mobius strips are pretty neat on their own. You can cut them down the center, and it’ll just make it longer. You can perform multiple cuts, and it’ll just create three Mobius strips, linked together. Fascinating stuff. But this particular Mobius strip is a never-ending level of Super Mario Bros.. And as you turn it…
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UncategorizedNinja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge Slices and Dices, and Still Cuts Through a Beer Can Like This
This is a couple minutes of gameplay for Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge, the Wii U launch title that carves through dough-headed stooges like this and still can slice a tomato like this. The game throws blood all over the screen as Ryu traipses, mostly unchallenged, through what appears to be an early level. On-screen…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Sports Video Gaming’s First Panel Show, Available Now by Podcast
Press Row, a discussion of sports video gaming and current topics in the industry and the sports they reflect, debuted yesterday. It’s a collaboration of some of the biggest publications and sites dedicated to the subject, including Operation Sports, GamesRadar and Polygon. I was one of the panelists in the debut discussion. Press Row has…
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UncategorizedThis Gun From Borderlands 2 Is The Most Annoying Weapon Ever And I Love It
I have not played Borderlands 2. But this gun—this delightfully obnoxious, bizarre gun—is actually kind of making me want to. A gun that shouts at you, and can only be captioned as “annoying sounds?” That’s the kind of silliness I appreciate in my games. Even if it makes me take off my headphones for a…
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Torchlight II and the Seven Game Reviewers That Can’t Stop Saying Diablo
Torchlight II is an isometric dungeon-crawler role-playing game in which players, alone or in groups, battle fantasy creatures in order to amass more powerful equipment, with which they can then use to fight even more powerful fantasy creatures. See how easy that was? I got through the entire Frankenreview introduction without mentioning Diablo Oh come…
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NBA 2K13‘s Demo Will Put Its Money Where Its Multiplayer Is
NBA 2K12 launched last year with a slew of online problems, disconnects, failures to connect and outright crashes, practically all of it tied to a decision to rewrite the game’s old online codebase, which dated back to the game’s Dreamcast origins and was an agonizing blemish even on a consensus game-of-the-year like NBA 2K12. In…
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Randy Pitchford Teased Details of Borderlands 2‘s Future During Our Live Interview Today. Here Are A Few.
Phew! That was an interesting two+ hours. Thanks to everyone for your questions, and a special thanks to Randy Pitchford himself, who went well into overtime after the original 2-hour mark. If you missed it, Gearbox’s CEO and the man behind Borderlands 2 teased a few details about the future of the sequel in some…
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League of Legends Will Soon Reward Players For Being Good To Each Other
Competitive games like League of Legends tend not to have reputations for particularly nice or well-behaved communities. In short, players are often foul-mouthed jerks to each other. The environment can be daunting to new players and can begin to wear down even the more experienced folk, after a while. Ignore and report functions, while vital,…
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Skyrim‘s Dragonborn is Freakishly Cute in Vinyl
Introduced at QuakeCon last month and now shipping to all the good little Dovahkiin boys and girls, Symbiote Studio’s Dragonborn vinyl figure now guards my computer desk from low-flying reptilian threats. Let’s unmask this tiny hero! The Dragonborn is the preview figure for the Symbiote Skyrim line, though I’m not sure what other stand-out, iconic…
By Mike Fahey
