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MLB 10 The Show Box Features ESPN Pimpage
What’s the most notable feature about MLB 10 The Show? I wouldn’t say it’s the Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer, because you can’t see his eyes in either of his two pictures. I’d say it’s the front-and-center ESPN endorsement. Not because it’s ESPN, and not because of what it’s saying – MLB 10 The Show…
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‘Green’ Cases Don’t Do Much for Greenpeace Rankings
Doesn’t look like cutting a bunch of plastic out of the standard game cases did much for anyone’s Greenpeace ratings. The environmental advocacy group released its quarterly rankings of electronics companies, again tsk-tsking Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. Nintendo, I guess because it goes whaling in its spare time or something, again clocked in with a…
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A Designer of an Arcade Classic Critiques His Work
No secret one of my most favorite classic arcade games is Paperboy. I was one once. It’s out on the iPhone, and the original designer rather likes the updated 3D version. His own work? He’s a bit more critical. Dave Ralston thinks the bicycle collision was too unforgiving. (Very true. Skidding almost to a stop…
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Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot Micro-Review: A Very Long Engagement
Don’t call it a deathmatch, says Gearbox. Don’t call it Horde mode either. It’s just Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot, an epic-length firefight in Borderlands, played to shifting rules and a brass accompaniment of spent casings clattering on the ground. Borderlands’ “role-playing shooter” combination makes it one of 2009’s most spectacularly addicting games. But what happens…
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MLB 2K10’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Tampa Bay’s Evan Longoria is the coverboy for MLB 2K10, but the third baseman’s bringing backup. With this trash-talking video, 2K Sports touts the “impressive council” of seven baseball all-stars it’s signed to serve as promotional muscle and gameplay advisors.
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PlayStation Store Update: Starting Off 2010 Slow
Aside from Matt Hazard: Blood Bath & Beyond and some downloadable content for Disgaea 2 on the PSP, we’ve got a very video and theme-centric fist PlayStation Store update for 2010. It’s a slow start, but it’s certainly a start. Blood Bath & Beyond looks like it has potential, and there’s always the Dark Void…
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Red Bull Gives PlayStation Home New Things To Do
The first consumer brand to be a part of PlayStation Home extends their presence today, with Red Bull Flugtag and Red Bull Illume added to Home growing stable of places to do stuff. Red Bull Flugtag is a competition that challenges people to build human-powered flying machines, and the new PlayStation Home Red Bull Flugtag…
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Cold Stone Creamery: Scoop It Up So You Don’t Have To
Who pays $20 for a Wii video game based on the Cold Stone Creamery ice cream franchise? I do, and then I play it, so you don’t have to. Though you actually might want to, depending on your level of dedication to the ice cream retailer arts. Cold Stone Creamery: Scoop It Up from Zoo…
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The PSP Gets Hexyz Force In May
With a name like Hexyz Force, it can only be some sort of Japanese RPG being released for the North American PSP by Atlus, the company that brought us Yggdra Union. Hexyz Force (pronounced “I have no idea, perhaps Hex-ees?), is a Japanese RPG being released for the PSP on May 25th by Atlus, so…
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3D Games Now Available For Palm webOS
Palm Pre owners can now get as distracted in the bathroom as iPhone owners do, as Palm introduces the first 3D games to the Palm App Catalog, with Electronic Arts, Gameloft, and Glu Mobile leading the charge. I have to admit that I know next to nothing about the Palm Pre, but it has to…
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More Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Moments From Panama
DICE blows up more stuff in Panama in the latest installment of Battlefield: Bad Company 2’s Battlefield Moments. At first I thought this was the same Panama trailer that Luke posted back in December, but upon closer inspection it’s obvious this footage and that footage are different. For instance, it’s nearly a month later, and…
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