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New Miss America Not Off To Hot Start With Gamers
Caressa Cameron (pictured, left), as the newly minted Miss America, wants you to play imaginary games in the street. That’s one of the “standards” that should be “set” for our “children,” she said in her winner’s interview. Cameron’s take-away-the-tv-and-games quote in her winner’s interview was straight boilerplate: Video games destroy kids’ motivation, creativity, make them…
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UncategorizedShout It Out Loud With This Indie Game
This is GNILLEY, and by God, this game is a scream. Literally. Built by Glen Forrester of Australia, you play by screaming your foes into oblivion or shouting down obstacles in your path. The video is of Forrester showing GNILLEY this weekend at Global Game Jam Sydney 2010. Looks like he screams “GO!” to get…
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Walmart, Best Buy Close Down Trade-In Kiosks
E-Play, the company providing kiosks for used game trade-in pilot programs has suspended operations, ending Best Buy and Walmart’s short-lived experiment in the used games business. Industry Gamers, which first reported E-Play’s closure, quoted an analyst describing the business generated by the machines as “underwhelming.” They will be deactivated and cleared out of stores over…
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Life Imitates Art, And Vice Versa, For Monday Night Combat
Aung Zaw Oo – better known as the parkour-lovin’ game animator AZO – shows how he incorporates moves he does in real life into the animations of the upcoming class-based shooter Monday Night Combat by Uber Entertainment. The good stuff begins about the 0:56 mark – especially the move where the sniper tees up his…
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