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ReviewsThe Waiver-Wire Prospects of MLB 2K11
I’m thinking of a famous, very touching monologue by Earl Weaver, the Hall of Fame manager of the Baltimore Orioles, talking about cutting players during spring training. “You call ’em in and say, ‘It’s the consensus among us that we’re going to let you go back home.’ Some of them cry, some get mad, but…
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UncategorizedAnarchy Reigns‘ Mathilda Has Curves And Spikes In All The Right Places
She’s one part Bayonetta, one part purple people beater. She’s Mathilda, and she’s ready to enter the blood-soaked multiplayer ring of Platinum Games’ Anarchy Reigns. Platinum Games and Sega continue rolling out characters for the upcoming brawler also known as Max Anarchy, and each new character is more intriguing than the last. Mathilda here is…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Game Boy Puts The Bomb In School Bus Bomb Scare
Police responding to a bomb scare this morning on a school bus outside of the Northside Intermediate school in Milton, Wisconsin, discovered an 11-year-old boy in possession of a video game system dressed up with wires and batteries to look like an explosive device Milton Police Department Lieutenant John Conger confirmed with Kotaku that the…
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UncategorizedWhat Is Chessboxing?
Chessboxing is an activity that combines the physical demands of boxing with the mental discipline of chess. Competitors alternate between rounds of chess and rounds of boxing, kicking things off with a four-minute round of chess and alternating with fisticuffs until 11 rounds have passed, or one competitor jams a rook in the other’s eye.…
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The Large Hadron Collider Might Also Be The World’s First Time Machine
The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, propelling charged particles to high speeds and smashing them together in the name of science. It also might be a time machine. At least that’s what a long-shot theory put forth by Tom Weiler and Chui Man Ho suggests. If this wacky…
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UncategorizedCasey the Bully-Breaking “Zangief Kid” Gets the Street Fighter Remix He Deserves
You may recall Casey Heynes, the chunky kid who was tired of being bullied and became an icon. Now he’s immortalized—overmortalized?—in this video that mixes back in all the sound and visual effects we all heard in our mind when we first watched Casey piledrive his bully into the schoolyard concrete. [via Calm Down Tom]
By Joel Johnson - Uncategorized
Co-op Gaming Between an iPad and iMac, Guerilla Bob-style
Forget “PC vs Console” wars. Now it’s going to be “iPad vs Mac”. (Keyboard and mouse forever!) Guerilla Bob is a simplistic, three-quarters-overhead shooter in the Ikari Warriors vein, but that’s not what makes it unique. It’s that the co-op shoot ’em up doesn’t just allow two iOS devices to team up, but supports full…
By Joel Johnson
