Archive for December, 2009

Rapper/Actor Ice-T Will Kick Your Ass In Modern Warfare 2

Tweet Ice-T has made it fairly well known to those who care to follow his interests, that videogames rank pretty high on his list of favorite things, but it wasn’t until he decided to post a TwitPic showing off his multiplayer accomplishments in a session of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, that we got [...]

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Brainy Psychologist Ties Phat Loot Love To Dopamine Neurons, WoW Raiders Explain Epic Need In More Manageable Terms

Tweet I’ve seen my fair share of loot drops during my time as an epically geared Alliance Warrior in the World of Warcraft, and I’d be lying if I told you that my butt-cheeks didn’t clench in chair hopping excitement every time a new piece of gear came my way. Though, I never thought much [...]

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Modern Warfare 2 Not Balanced for Wikipedia

Tweet A gamer by the name of Saad recently noticed something a bit off with Infinity Ward’s representation of Karachi. Namely the fact the text scrawled around the map isn’t the right language. You may be asking yourself “Why is Saad more knowledgeable on this subject than the game’s developer?” Well, conveniently enough, Karachi happens [...]

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Video Games > Movies in England

Tweet Well, we’ve done it. Gamers everywhere should take out their favorite bottle of cheap liquor and toast themselves for overtaking movies as the biggest entertainment cash cow around. At least in England they should, so I guess replace ‘bottle of cheap liquor’ with ‘nice cup of tea.’ As reported by the Telegraph, in the [...]

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Modern Warfare 2: Most Pirated Game of 2009

Tweet Remember last year when a few million copies of Spore were pirated and everyone had a fit? Well, stand aside for 2009′s ‘winner’. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for the PC has been torrented approximately 4.1 million times. Add that to the 970,000 illegal downloads for the Xbox 360 version and Infinity Ward is looking at over 5 [...]

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Rumor: Wii NFL Football Exercise Trainer Coming From EA Sports

Tweet Electronic Arts has a new title on the way, one that’s supposed to be announced in January. The latest rumor from the internets is that the title is an NFL-licensed football trainer that will ship with a football shaped peripheral of some sort.

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New NES Game ‘Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril’ Brings The Latest In Mega Man & Metroid Retro Technology

Tweet I had an Atari when I was a kid, but I didn’t really become a gamer until I got an NES.  I played a ton of games on there, and thanks to Virtual Console I can be easily reminded how hard some of those games were.  Sivak Games is bringing back that feeling of [...]

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Chunk Kid Goes Ape Shit Crazy Over Xbox 360 Christmas Gift

Tweet Combine Chunk from Goonies with a sideways floor hugging rendition of the running man, the sound of three hundred screaming teenage girls at a Twilight premiere, and a request for the “hump your Xbox 360 dance” from mom, and you get the latest Youtube display of Holiday induced excitement, proving that it’s certainly more [...]

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Batman Comic Writer Says Videogame Violence Not Real Enough, Questions What Gamers Really Want

Tweet Landry Walker, a writer who has worked on DC Comic’s “Batman: The Brave and the Bold” as well as “The Incredibles”, published an interesting article on the web sharing his views on videogame violence and what he thinks gamers really want versus what they say they want. He claims to have come to this [...]

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G4TV Uncharted 2 Interview

Tweet Andrew Pfister of G4 recently sat down with Evan Wells, the co-president of Naughty Dog, to have a lenghty, inciteful conversation about Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. If you’re a fan of the game, you should definitely check this out.

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China Central Television: Videogames Are Bad, MMMkay?

Tweet Full of violence, suggestive situations, language, and anything else bad you can think of video games have always been a target to blame when people do bad things.  Recently China Central Television (CCTV), which is China’s state run news network, aired part two of a show called “Confessions of a Murderer — Focus on [...]

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Sega’s Marketing Department Goes “In For The Kill” With Latest Bayonetta TV Spot

Tweet Sega is pulling out all the stops in terms of marketing and promoting their upcoming release of Bayonetta, and I for one am glad to see it. In addition to the commercial below (which features a very catchy tune), Sega will also be tying the title’s name to the UFC 108: Evans versus Silva [...]

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Toys”R”Us Buy 1 Get 1 Half Off Post Christmas Videogame & Accessory Sale

Tweet Toys”R”Us is having a buy one get one half off sale on videogames and related accessories starting today (December 26th) through January 2nd 2010. I don’t normally venture out on this historically insane shopping day but this deal is too good to resist.

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Merry Christmas from Ripten (Special Video Collection)

Tweet Outside of spending time with family, stuffing my face with food, and opening a crap-load of presents, my favorite thing about Christmas (and just about every other holiday) is the specials that appear on TV. Remember that time Pac-Man saved Christmas? How about that age old Christmas carol that talks about the Batmobile losing [...]

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Kids Don’t Need Video Game Hot Coffee, 2009 Search Data Proves Internet Was Made To Help Them Find Porn

Tweet Kids Search for the Darndest Things As we are now well into the holiday season, and many of us prepare to celebrate Christmas and New Years with family and friends, a recent review of the top 100 most popular searches on the internet in 2009 by kids and teenagers reveals that while many of [...]

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