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UncategorizedA Compendium of Freaked-Out Reactions to Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Ordinarily, you toss a video like this on YouTube, and every comment shouts it down as fake. But anyone who’s played indie horror hit Amnesia: The Dark Descent knows this guy’s skin-crawling, pupil-dilating, sphincter-clenching, headphone-grabbing reactions are on the level.
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Done Yours Yet?
Done Yours Yet? | If not, you still have the weekend. A quirk in the calendar, involving a District of Columbia holiday, gives Americans until April 18 to postmark their income tax returns. (Photo: Justin Sullivan, Getty Images) New Nintendo Console Debuting At E3 This June, Launching In 2012, More Powerful Than Xbox 360 and…
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Cheerleaders Return to Madden
EA Sports sent out a few photos over Twitter earlier today – two for Madden, one for NCAA Football. Kick meters, which have changed almost annually the past few years, look like they’ll revert to what we saw from Madden earlier last decade. NCAA Football showed Ralphie the Buffalo, indicating that mascot pre-game entries will…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
This is the World’s Biggest Pac-Man Game
Here’s what you’re going to do when your bored at work for the next few months: The World’s Biggest Pac-Man is a brower-based version of the classic blown up to epic proportions. The game connects thousands of user-created levels like tiles to create a single immense map. Designed by web design firm Soap Creative using…
By Mike Epstein - Uncategorized
Resident Evil Mercenaries VS. Brings The Fight To The iPhone
Capcom releases its first online iPhone game in Resident Evil Mercenaries VS., in which players battle zombies and human opponents as Jill Valentine, Chris Redfield, or Albert Wesker. It’s on sale now in the iTunes App Store for $2.99.
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UncategorizedWitness The CCP Chessboxing Match Of The Century
Last month in Reykjavik, Iceland, two employees of EVE Online developer CCP seat each other mentally and physically in front of a crowd of bloodthirsty spectators. This is Chessboxing, and half of it is exciting to watch. Two 3D artists, Björn “Left Rook” Jónsson, CCP’s resident chess expert, and Daniel “Pretty Boy” Þórarinsson, Iceland’s 2009…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
World of Goo Is Just One Dollar for iPhone Today
If you’ve missed World of Goo in one of its many iterations over the years, there’s another chance to play the superb physics puzzler. It’s now available on your iPhone or iPod Touch—the iPad version has gone Universal. It’s all of $.99 in the iTunes App Store, which when coupled with the ratings in the…
By Joel Johnson - Uncategorized
Full Battlefield 3 Trailer Being Held Hostage On Facebook
Want to get an early look at the full trailer for Battlefield 3, complete with producer commentary? Then you and several hundred thousand friends need to like the Battlefield Facebook page. At least they aren’t threatening to shoot puppies.
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UncategorizedRed Johnson’s Chronicles Makes A Compelling Case For PlayStation Network Adventure
Combining a sleek and sexy graphical style, puzzle solving, investigation, and quick fire action scenes, PlayStation Network adventure game Red Johnson’s Chronicles is a game that deserves more attention then it’s gotten so far. I’ve seen the name many times, but until I saw this trailer for the game, due out shortly on the PlayStation…
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UncategorizedHunting The Wild Leon In Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
Meet the Umbrella Security Squad’s Delta Squad. They’ll be in charge of hunting down Leon S. Kennedy and putting him down like a dog in Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. As Stephen mentioned in his impressions piece yesterday, one of the tasks given the U.S.S. Delta Squad in Operation Raccoon City involves hunting down Raccoon…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
What Will You Find Inside Pokémon Black And White‘s Secret Egg?
In the Pokémon Black and White cartoon, Ash will soon find himself the proud owner of a mysterious Pokémon egg. From April 27 through May 31, fans can snag their own Secret Egg from Toys “R” Us and play along. Pokémon players are used to visiting retail stores to acquire special new Pokémon, but this…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Kinect for Netflix is a Catastrophe. Microsoft Has No Idea What to Do with Kinect
“Let’s find out how long it takes to select and watch our favorite Netflix movie using Kinect instead of the Xbox 360 controller!” That was the simple metric we wanted to try to test the new Kinect support in the Xbox version of Netflix. I suspected that it’d take a little bit longer to use…
By Joel Johnson
