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1 vs. 100 Finds New Life on Facebook
People sometimes forget that 1 vs. 100, the MMO gameshow offered by Xbox Live from 2009 to 2010, is based on an actual gameshow of the same name and format, running in several countries, including the U.S. from 2006 to 2008. Though Microsoft declined to bring it back for a third season, it’ll be resuscitated…
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UncategorizedHere’s a Look at Minecraft‘s Weather Effects, Achievements and Stats
Minecraft’s next title update (1.5) will deliver a host of new features, among them an achievement system, a statistics log and, perhaps more importantly, weather effects. The game’s creator released this video late last night showing all those features in action. Markus “Notch” Persson says there’s some tinkering to be done with the weather –…
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Guy Who Casket-Robbed a Game Boy is Headed to Jail
Jody Bennett of Mentcle, Pa., whose coffin-burgling of a Game Boy back in December managed to get the gaming handheld described – for purposes of criminal charges and possibly the first time ever – as a “venerated object,” got two months of probation for his ugly deed. He’s still going to jail, but on unrelated…
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Sportsmanlike Conduct
Twenty-five penalty minutes, multiple fight challenges. Tripping and a short-handed goal in the third period. There were any number of opportunities to ragequit out of this online multiplayer game of NHL 11. But for some reason, perhaps stubbornness, both sides played through. Reader t0ddd prevailed, but it took plenty of will to stay in. Playing…
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The First Four Super Meat Boy Figurines Have Arrived
The official – and tiny – Super Meat Boy figurines from Voxelous and Team Meat have been revealed. Just two inches high, they’re $12 each (plus $3.49 shipping for one, $3.99 for two or more). The first set includes Meat Boy, Bandage Girl, Brownie and the pathetic Tofu Boy. “We want to release toys for…
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Citizens on Patrol
You know, Mahoney, I’d like to spend the next ten weeks breaking you into little pieces. But I won’t. Because you’re bad. You’re bad for morale, Mahoney. Oh, you look like the sweet little boy from next door. But you don’t fool me, oh no. You’re the devil, and you’re rotten to the core, and…
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Play This Submarine Strategy Game and Help the U.S. Navy
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which some may recognize as a founding father of the Internet, is developing antisubmarine warfare drones and has released a video game hoping to crowdsource some of the tactical AI behind them. The ACTUV Tactics Simulator, released by DARPA just a few days ago, is a simulator challenging…
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Category Shuffle Improves Video Game Composers’ Shot at Grammy
In March, a five-year-old song for Civilization IV became the first original composition for a video game soundtrack to win a Grammy. While no award has been created specifically for video game scores – in fact, more than 30 categories have been eliminated for next year – a renaming of four categories means games will…
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Study of 1980s Gamers Finds Them Less Likely to be College Graduates
A researcher at Oxford University queried adults who were 16 years old in 1986 and found a correlation between an interest in video gaming and a lower likelihood of going on to college. The researcher himself is a PC gamer – four hours a week, he says – and appreciates that video gaming as an…
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UncategorizedMaking a Point About the Pointlessness of Unboxing Videos
Having done only one unboxing – and it was of fried chicken – I feel I may post this video without it being an overt display of my hypocrisy. Unboxing videos have always struck me like childbirth videos, albeit without the blood, umbilical cord, placenta, etc. As YouTube’s Cool Gear Reviews notes, they’re exciting only…
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Sony’s Hosting Provider Calls Anonymous’ Cyber-Attack an ‘Annoyance’
Ars Technica reports that sources within Sony’s hosting provider belittled Anonymous’ cyber-attack as “medium strength,” and something that only “annoyed our network engineers.” The hosting service’s plan is to wait out Anonymous until the attackers get bored. Sony sites have gone up and down through the week, to the point that Anonymous called off an…
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UncategorizedHas Someone Already Won a Million Dollars from MLB 2K11?
Yesterday someone uploaded a YouTube video purporting to show him completing 2K Sports’ Million Dollar Perfect Game Challenge in MLB 2K11. While it’s confirmation of nothing, it may signal another early end to the game’s sweepstakes promotion. [Warning: The audio gets very loud and NSFW after the final out.] Excusing the lag-fest and skipped audio,…
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Preorder Dungeon Siege III Through Steam, Get The First Two Games Free
Dungeon Siege III might be delayed, but that just gives Steam users more time to play through Dungeon Siege and Dungeon Siege II. They’ll get both games free as soon as their preorder goes through. That’s a lot of dungeons.
By Mike Fahey
