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UncategorizedLittle Things Get a Lot of Attention in the First Two Madden NFL 12 Videos
Two videos give the first look at Madden NFL 12‘s gameplay, calling attention to gameplay (above) and presentation details added for this year’s game. They don’t cover everything. There are three deeper discussions of the game’s defensive and collision upgrades and fully customizable playbooks. The presentation video shows progressive lighting, new broadcast overlays, jazzier pregame…
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Redbox Video Game Rentals Go Nationwide In June
After nearly two years of testing video game rentals in its ubiquitous crimson movie rental machines, Redbox is ready to take its game national, offering game rentals at more than 21,000 locations nationwide starting June 17. Redbox began testing video game rentals in its DVD rental kiosks back in August of 2009, slowly adding locations…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Even If Yoshi Is Gay, Where are the Other Gay Video Game Heroes?
Can an egg-laying dinosaur without sex organs be gay? IGN’s Jack DeVries makes the case that Mario‘s green dinosaur steed with the prehensile tongue is “dating”-in the strange, largely irrelevant backstory that frames the series-Birdo, the pink, bow-wearing dinosaur first seen in Super Mario Bros. 2 Birdo, according to official Nintendo lore, is male. The…
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One of the iPhone’s Best Role-Playing Sagas Continues in Zenonia 3
In 2009 Zenonia changed my idea of what an iPhone role-playing game could be. 2010’s Zenonia 2: The Lost Memories further refined the series’ winning formula. Now Zenonia 3: The Midgard Story arrives, and it looks to big the biggest Zenonia yet. The third installment of Gamevil’s action-RPG sees players adventuring as one of four…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Hide from Big Brother’s Roaming Eye with Pixelhead
You can’t take two steps in the world these days without having your image captured. Everywhere you turn there are people with cellphone cameras, traffic cameras, Google Streetview vehicles. How can we remain anonymous in this digital age? Why, with digital camouflage, of course. Enter Pixelhead. The brainchild of artist Martin Backes, Pixelhead is a…
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It’s Frightening How Persistent a Child Predator Can Be
In December of 2010, 18-year-old Alex Trowell of Idaho was on his way to visit his 12-year-old World of Warcraft girlfriend in New Mexico. Alerted by the girl’s mother, New Mexico police called Trowell and had him turn his car around. Last week, Police in Nampa, Idaho arrested Trowell after discovering the girl with him…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Celebrating Seven Years of City of Heroes
Seven years ago today, NCsoft and Cryptic Studios released City of Heroes, providing fantasy-gorged massively multiplayer online gamers a new way to waste countless hours of their lives alongside thousands of their closest friends. Let’s celebrate seven years of heroes and villains with a colorful infographic and nostalgia-laden anecdotes! I fondly remember the day City…
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UncategorizedBinary Domain is a Prophetic Vision of the Robot Apocalypse
Behold our first glimpse of gameplay from Sega’s Binary Domain, a cautionary tale in which humanity must fight for survival against the highly advanced robots we created with our own hands. I bet Watson is behind this. It’s the same old story I’ve been shouting from street corners for years. “Stop making robots!” I’d yell.…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Exploring the Most Beautiful Video Game Worlds
In today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Monsieur.Froid urges us to sit back, relax, and get lost in the wondrous landscapes of the most gorgeous virtual worlds gaming has to offer. What are some of the absolutely best video game worlds out there? I think I know what I love best about a video game, and…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
One Out Of Two Portal 2 Players On Steam Hasn’t Finished The Game
So much for Portal 2 being too short. Fans of Portal 2 may be surprised to learn that a lot of people who own the game aren’t playing it very much. Little more than half the players who bought the game on Steam have finished it and more than one in ten of them haven’t…
By Mike Epstein
