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  Tuesday’s Children are Full of Deals

  Savings and bonuses for new releases for the coming week’s jampacked lineup, including Assassin’s Creed: Revelations and Need for Speed: The Run can be found inside this weekend’s edition of The Moneysaver. And if you haven’t picked it up yet, there’s one for Skyrim, too. Software • Sunday release Super Mario 3D Land (3DS) is…

  By Owen Good Published November 12, 2011
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  Warcraft‘s Richest 1% Control 24% of Azeroth’s Gold, but You Don’t See the Night Elves Bitching About It

  With wealth distribution being a hot topic in the real world, one demographer/World of Warcraft enthusiast tried to derive what the income inequality is within Azeroth. The results of his survey of nearly 2,500 players—with an admittedly great margin of error—is that the wealthiest one percent in the game control 24.25 percent of its gold.…

  By Owen Good Published November 11, 2011
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  The Steam Forums are Back Online

  Steam’s Forums, the scene of a Nov. 6 defacement attack that exposed a database containing customers’ private information, came back online a few hours ago. The most current topic in the general discussion forum is “So, We Getting Free Copies of Portal 2?” The answer to that is probably no. You can contact Owen Good,…

  By Owen Good Published November 11, 2011
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  What Race Will You Play in Skyrim?

  It’s something I debated for weeks, and even after making the decision for the first time playing the game, I was already ready to second-guess myself and try something different on PC. There are a ton of different races to play in the game, and the stat bonuses that each one allows shouldn’t go overlooked.…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published November 11, 2011
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  Shinobi Takes Revenge This Tuesday on 3DS

  It’s been a hell of a month for side-scrollers from 20 or more years ago. First Sonic, next Mario and now Shinobi. Joe Musashi is back, on the 3DS. This launch trailer sets up his mission of revenge and shows off what looks like some gyrometer-enabled gameplay. Players will mix a new combo system in…

  By Owen Good Published November 11, 2011
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  Sports and Your Morning Commute in The Week in Gaming Apps

  Bowling, baseball and an crowd-sourced traffic jam navigation app headline this week’s roundup of mobile device goodies. Flick Home Run reminded me of a fruitless journey into mystery with my homecoming date in high school. Gutterball Golden Bowling Pin HD brought a grinding mechanic to a casual bowling game. Kinectimals demonstrated Xbox Live and Windows…

  By Owen Good Published November 11, 2011
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  What Are You Playing This Weekend?

  Look at you people, all happy and smiling with your “Skyrim” and your “Modern Warfare.” I’m winding up my time with Super Mario 3D Land, which hits shelves on Sunday. That’s right, fuck off Bowser. I’m coming to kick your ass and there’s nothing you can do about it because I’m dressed like a sparkly…

  By Owen Good Published November 11, 2011
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  Devriez-Vous Acheter Rayman: Origins? Oui.

  2011 has already seen the release of one Rayman game— Rayman 3D for the 3DS. It was good fun, but that is unsurprising, given that it was a 3D port of 1999’s Rayman 2: The Great Escape. In Rayman: Origins we have a bona-fide new Rayman game. Created by the irrepressible French game designer Michel…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published November 11, 2011
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  The Week in the Business: ‘Nintendo May Perish in the Flames of its Burning Platform’

  What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “Nintendo may jump or perish in the flames of its own burning platform.” – Peter Farago, VP of mobile analytics firm Flurry says the numbers shows Nintendo’s and Sony’s handhelds are doomed QUOTE | “Steam has nowhere to go but down.”…

  James Brightman Published November 11, 2011
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  Armistice

  Veterans Day | SPEAN BRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM: Veterans attend Commando Memorial at Spean Bridge to observe a two minute silence as a mark of respect for the war dead on November 11, 2011 in Spean Bridge, Scotland. Armistice Day traditionally marks the end of the WWI when Germany and the allied forces signed the armistice…

  By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2011
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  Let’s Compare Skyrim on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC

  The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim released today to much excitement, and you can play it on all of the high-powered platforms. Which machine runs it the best? The PC usually comes out on top, and that seems to be the case again here. Watch for yourself though, as YouTube user Robbaz returns to give us…

  By Matthew Buzzi Published November 11, 2011
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  Finally, The Glorious 27-Minute Stop-Motion LEGO Halo Film You’ve Been Waiting For

  We’ve been eagerly anticipating this unofficial mash-up of LEGO and Halo for more than two years Initially promised for an early 2010, the Battle of the Brick, a 27-minute LEGO Halo movie, finally premiered today on Gametrailers We’ve been following Alex Kobbs, and his impressive LEGO Halo works, for nearly half a decade. So grab…

  By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2011
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  Bring Us Your True Tales of Skyrim Adventure

  While Bethesda has done a fine job developing the fiction of the continent of Tamriel, there’s one important story missing from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — yours. And what good is a tale that goes untold? We want to know how you fit into the lore of Skyrim, and we’re not above sharing it…

  By Mike Fahey Published November 11, 2011
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  How to Occupy Scribblenauts In Eight Easy Steps

  The fantastic image you see above is courtesy of someone named crzisme over at Reddit, and is an actual in-game screenshot! A pretty realistic representation of the Occupy Together movement, wouldn’t you say? As you may know, Scribblenauts allows you to type almost any noun into its database, and the game will create an animated…

  By Matthew Buzzi Published November 11, 2011
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  Your Web Window into Japan’s Wild, Sexy, and Scary Side

  Another night. Mahni Aino (above) fired up her computer and flipped on her camera. The sexy posing would come later, but now she was just talking about what food she liked cooking. Comments streamed across the screen, like “You’re so cute” and, even, “Do you use a Dell PC?” Then, she started doing yoga on…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 11, 2011
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  Things That Should Exist: Minecraft Legos

  People love building real-world things in Minecraft. Buildings, works of art, board games, starships. (Okay, those aren’t real. Yet.) However, there’s a distressing lack of ways to build Minecraft things in the real world. One brilliant solution gets floated here and it’s such a patently obvious idea that you’ll howl at the fact that such…

  By Evan Narcisse Published November 11, 2011
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  A Dozen Reasons To Hate Call of Duty Games

  Call of Duty is reviled among a vocal group of gamers. When they read that the latest iteration of the series is selling well, or is well reviewed, or is being played by a lot of people, they seem to take it personally. That’s always baffled me. So on Twitter today I asked the 13,500…

  By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2011
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  Nearly a Quarter of A Million People Are Playing Skyrim on Steam Right Now

  The nifty Steam Game Stat tracker shows that about 210,000 people are currently playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. That’s compared to the distant second place Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, which hit a peak at 78,000 or so players today. [Thanks Kent]

  By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2011
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  30 Seconds of Skyward Sword: One Amazing Boat

  I showed four moments from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword this week. Those four moments that might not be the mostly obviously spectacular moments in the new Wii Zelda, but each of them shows off one of its strengths: the combat twists, the music, the art direction, the atmosphere… and today, I’m going to…

  By Stephen Totilo Published November 11, 2011
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  One Million Players Join DC Universe Online One Week After It Goes Free-to-Play

  We already know that over 120,000 PC users joined DC Universe Online in 24 hours after the Sony Online Entertainment title went free-to-play, but now the publisher’s revealing more about how big the shift has been for them. In the week since DCUO became FTP, one million new would-be metahumans have joined the game’s ranks.…

  By Evan Narcisse Published November 11, 2011