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Super Loot

Rumble time on Saturday after tennis

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Video Games and the Female Audience

Any female input?

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Of Game Piracy

[Penny Arcade] I buy a lot of games and I think it’s no secret that I don’t have the time to play all of them. It’s like how some girls buy lots of shoes and bags, I buy games (and … Continue reading

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Strange Journey

I only got 2 hours into Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey and I’m loving it so far. I can see how people call it SMT: Etrian Odyssey as it uses the same engine and goes back to SMT’s dungeon crawling … Continue reading

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Science & Science Fiction of Games

I recommend getting good and high for the discussion of dark matter, although he does point out that “when you put negative matter into Einstein’s equations,” – i.e. divide by zero!! (!!!) – they “curl up into knots.” And hedging … Continue reading

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Science is Awesome

In the name of science and awesome, researchers from the University of Osaka in Japan created this Mario in a petri dish. How? By genetically engineering bacteria to express fluorescent proteins and carotenoid pigments. via Mario Recreated In Petri Dish … Continue reading

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Borderlands aka Diablo with Guns. [yout…

Borderlands aka Diablo with Guns. I want to play it now!

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Assassin’s Creed 2: Ouch, that looks like it hurts!

The developers here touch on one of my biggest gaming pet peeves in the video – enemies that don’t react to being hit. If I hit someone with an axe, they are going to stagger, get wounded, and possibly die. … Continue reading

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How Games Might Teach Us More About Sex

The upcoming Heavy Rain features a sequence in which its female protagonist is forced to strip for a disgusting mob boss. It’s sex but it’s not sexy, and it moves the needle for games teaching us to differentiate the two. … Continue reading

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Borderlands: My next KaBOOOiiEEE game?

It isn’t a tactical shooter, and it isn’t a talky RPG. It steps back to the base level of both genres and then piles style and energy on top. It’s the opposite of feature creep – returning to why people … Continue reading

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