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Minecraft And Team Fortress 2 Is Like Comparing Weapons And Cows
Tuesday, a reader compared Minecraft and Farmville. Heresy! Would Team Fortress 2 be more apt? Both involve crafting, but where five cows equal one hat in Minecraft, the cost is more ridiculous in TF2. Very large infographic, by SplitScreen, inside. Minecraft vs. Team Fortress 2 [Split-Screen; higher-quality .png available there.]
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UncategorizedBox Scores: Beast Mode
Everyone saw Marshawn Lynch go 67 yards through the entire New Orleans defense to put away the Saints on Saturday. No more than 12 hours later, JuGGerNaut6372 performed his salute to Beast Mode with this run in Madden NFL 11. That’s the Raida Organization’s Brandon Myers on a 60-yard catch-and-run in the fourth quarter against…
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UncategorizedWhat Could Possibly Go Wrong With This Glasses-Free 3D Solution …
This video is comprised of: English in a French accent, 38 seconds; what the hell is he putting on his face, 22 seconds; and HOLY GOD STOP DOING THAT TO YOUR EYES, 55 seconds. François Vogel, an innovative filmmaker and visual artist, here demonstrates why you should never complain about 3D glasses again. Interesting, definitely…
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The Moneysaver: The Devil’s Greatest Trick
You think you can catch Keyser Soze? You think a guy like that comes this close to getting caught and sticks his head out? If he comes up for anything, it’d be a 3-for-2 used games deal and free shipping. Nominate your favorite movie to lead the next Moneysaver, and get starred if we use…
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The Week in Review: Crosshairs
Video games are not responsible for the mass killing in Tucson, Ariz. a week ago. But the suspect’s deranged ramblings in an online game’s forums put them in the spotlight. Gamers have, justifiably, long mistrusted their portrayal in these stories. The blame script is exceedingly familiar to the community by now, and it’s propagated by…
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UncategorizedThe Invisible Batter of Baseball on the PlayStation Move
MLB 11 The Show will get PlayStation Move support but I wouldn’t put high hopes on it. The only supported feature will be a Home Run Derby mode, shown here, and that weird floating bat just strikes me wrong. CtrlAltKill brought this back from CES. The game has foregone the representation of a hitter, just…
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Ladies, The Party Dorm Is Right Here …
The Fallout: New Vegas sign we gave away last month has arrived to christen its new owner’s digs. Kotaku reader ipottersmith, the contest winner, just shared this pic. Definitely beats the crap out of an Animal House poster from Spencer’s.
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UncategorizedMinecraft’s New Musical “Note Blocks” Are Already A Triumph
Note blocks, which play a tone in one of two octaves, were added to Minecraft with the PC hit’s update yesterday. Already someone’s figured out how to make them play the introduction to the Portal theme “Still Alive.” YouTube poster Tritex989 made the music machine, which plays automatically thanks to redstone powering each note block.…
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UncategorizedIn Letters From The Front, The Solemn Words Of Angry Birds
“I’m having trouble making sense of all this,” writes Red, from the War of Porcine Passive Aggression. “They tell me I can come home after we get three stars on 3-18.” Yeah, well, it ain’t gonna get no better on 3-19, corporal, I can assure you of that. Chris Riebschlager, a Kansas City web developer,…
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