The Darkness II

One Out Of Two Portal 2 Players On Steam Hasn’t Finished The Game

So much for Portal 2 being too short. Fans of Portal 2 may be surprised to learn that a lot of people who own the game aren’t playing it very much.

Little more than half the players who bought the game on Steam have finished it and more than one in ten of them haven’t even gotten to that very first… More »

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Exploring the Most Beautiful Video Game Worlds

In today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Monsieur.Froid urges us to sit back, relax, and get lost in the wondrous landscapes of the most gorgeous virtual worlds gaming has to offer. More »

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Celebrating Seven Years of City of Heroes

Seven years ago today, NCsoft and Cryptic Studios released City of Heroes, providing fantasy-gorged massively multiplayer online gamers a new way to waste countless hours of their lives alongside thousands of their closest friends. More »

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Why Is Apple Allowing Mario Clones on iTunes?

Trademark red cap and white gloves, big mustache and floating coins. There’s no confusing this iPhone game: It’s Super Mario Bros. Only it isn’t. [Update]

Monino by developer FeYingInfo popped up on iTunes for a penny shy of a dollar earlier this week begging the question: More »

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It’s Frightening How Persistent a Child Predator Can Be

In December of 2010, 18-year-old Alex Trowell of Idaho was on his way to visit his 12-year-old World of Warcraft girlfriend in New Mexico. Alerted by the girl’s mother, New Mexico police called Trowell and had him turn his car around. More »

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Hide from Big Brother’s Roaming Eye with Pixelhead

You can’t take two steps in the world these days without having your image captured. Everywhere you turn there are people with cellphone cameras, traffic cameras, Google Streetview vehicles. More »

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What is America’s Fetish This Week? Japan

It’s a country with 120 million people, with a deep and long history, with a complex and beautiful language. Yet, for Americans, Japan often offers something else entirely-a place to project its fears, fantasies, and, yes, even neurosis. More »

A Colleague Shares the Trauma of the Southern Tornadoes

Tiffany Nevin, news editor at GamingAngels.com (we’ve featured her work before) lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Her neighborhood and much of the rest of the American southeast has been mauled by tornadoes, claiming the lives of more than 200 people. More »

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EA’s Next Need For Speed Leaks Early, Goes On The Run In November

Looks like we’re getting a peek at the next Need For Speed a little earlier than publisher EA planned. Details on Need For Speed: The Run appeared on UK retailer ShopTo.net earlier today, a title heretofore unannounced by Electronic Arts. More »

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Even If Yoshi Is Gay, Where are the Other Gay Video Game Heroes?

Can an egg-laying dinosaur without sex organs be gay? IGN’s Jack DeVries makes the case that Mario‘s green dinosaur steed with the prehensile tongue is “dating”-in the strange, largely irrelevant backstory that frames the series-Birdo, the pink, bow-wearing dinosaur first seen in Super Mario Bros. More »

I went and played The Darkness II today, at least part of it. In the level I was fighting my way through some New York subways. After the meeting I had to fight my way through some real New York subways to get to the office. Surreal. –Brian Crecente

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