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Team Fortress 2 Map Update Gives You the Li’l Chew Chew Who Could
Team Fortress 2 brightens your day with a title update that brings three community maps to the game, including an adorable payload affectionately dubbed “Li’l Chew Chew.” You get Nightfall, a payload race map by Aaron ‘Psy’ Garcha and Paul Good set in “a damp logging site, in the middle of the rain, in the…
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German Pols Have a LAN Party in the Reichstag
Germany’s government has a rather sensitive relationship with video games. Reports of official censorship often involve the country, either for violent content or the fact that Nazis are useful game antagonists – and you know how they feel about that. Sensational crimes with ties to “Killerspiele,” have stirred calls for outright bans of violent games.…
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There’s Still a Market for NBA Elite 11
In sports collectibles, one company’s mistake is another man’s fortune. (Ask Billy Ripken.) Five months after NBA Elite 11’s embarrassing cancellation, copies of the game are still circulating over eBay – as well as box art, download cards, and other mementoes of the game that never was. NBA Elite 11 was cancelled a week before…
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UncategorizedWii Swinger Parties, John Adams is a Triceratops, and the Cat’s Outta the Bag
Hey, gang. I’m taking over today’s roundup of the top news, but first – a cat, a backpack, a video camera. What could possibly go wrong? Your Neighbors Are About To Invite You To Wii Sex Parties You’ve bowled. You’ve gotten fit. And now you can use your Nintendo Wii console to throw a swinger’s…
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UncategorizedCleaning Von Kaiser’s Clock — With Kinect
Kinect Sports Boxing, everyone asked if that was like Punch-Out!! on Kinect. Fighters Uncaged, same thing. How about we just go ahead and play Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! with a Kinect? This guy does. Here is RetroKinect by modder Dan Dockery. Simple controls, punch up, punch low, dodge left and right. The programmer disposes of Von…
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UncategorizedThis Powerful Pokémon Is Only Available For A Limited Time
The countdown begins when Pokémon Black and Pokémon White launch on March 6, giving trainers a little over a month to catch mythical Pokémon Victini before it disappears. Fire and psychic powers come together for the first time in Victini, the Pokémon so mythical it’s Pokédex number is 000. Players purchasing Pokémon Black and Pokémon…
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Fable III Journeys To Traitor’s Keep Next Week
Only the best-dressed adventurer will survive the three new levels for Fable III in Traitor’s Keep, the new downloadable content pack coming to the Xbox 360 on March 1. Ravenscar Keep, Clockwork Island, and the Godwin Estate will open to Fable III players for the price of 560 Microsoft points ($8.00) on the first of…
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Halo: Reach Players Get Defiant On March 15
Microsoft has nailed down a March 15 release date for the Halo: Reach Defiant Map pack, punctuating the announcement with a set of fresh screens showing off the three maps you’ll be paying $10 for. Let’s take a visual tour of Condemned, Highlands and Unearthed, the three new maps that make up the Defiant Map…
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Rift Might Not Be Ready For Rift
Due to overwhelming response, hundreds of hopeful players of Trion Worlds’ Rift have just had their afternoon totally screwed. Trion is opening new servers on the fly, so if yours is full, try another! This message brought to you by the guy waiting three hours to play.
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UncategorizedCreate Your Own Online Co-Op Campaign In SOCOM 4
SOCOM is a series that’s all about cooperation, and in SOCOM 4 Zipper Interactive hands control of cooperative online multiplayer missions to the players, giving them free reign to create custom co-op campaigns. SOCOM 4 players will be able to choose from a selection of missions designed specifically for online co-op, tweaking enemy density and…
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Are You Ready For Rift?
The head start program for Trion Worlds’ fantasy MMO Rifts launches today, and with more than one million registered accounts to date, things are bound to get a little crowded. As of this writing there’s only a half-hour before the land of Telara is officially opened up to early start customers, with countless players staring…
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