Articles By: Stephanie Gutowski

Chicks in Space: Mass Effect 2 Armor Hand-Crafted by David Carpenter

You’re looking at one of the most accurate recreations of female Shepard’s N7 armor that anyone has ever seen. David Carpenter, aka Evil-FX, has been hard at work on his latest masterpiece and I absolutely cannot wait to see it finished. Prepare for epic skills.

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Video Game Cutting Boards For Kitchen Gamers

Rejoice all you fanboys and girls. Your kitchen is now complete. 1337Motif of Etsy offers several geeky-awesome retro cutting boards, all handed crafted out of maple, walnut, or cherry. Now you have a reason to learn how to cook.

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THQ VP Teases Two “Mind Blowing” Announcements, Suggests EA & Activision “Start Worrying”

THQ Vice President Danny Bilson made a very bold statement in a recent VG247 interview. He claimed that two future announcements would blow the minds of gamers everywhere. Bilson turned the tables on EA and Activision, stating that the two titan publishers were going to have to start keeping up with them. Those be fightin’ words.

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GameStop Gaurantees $25 for Select Trade-In Titles

Tweet Grab your unloved Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360 games, get in your car, and floor it to GameStop. More than fifty titles are worth $25 trade-in credit until June 27, including the ones you see in this image. Yes, that’s right. Final Fantasy XIII. You should hurry. This offer expires in three days.

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Super Awesome Cosplay Spotlight #4

Having recently sold my copy of Final Fantasy XIII in an attempt to get the taste of bitter disappointment out of my mouth, I bring you an icon from one of the best installments of the series with hope that I may forget the most recent failure …

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No Mass Effect 3 or Dragon Age II at E310

Tweet Unfortunately, GameSpot’s attempt to predict Electronic Art’s E310 lineup broke thousands of hearts around the globe. Earlier this week, their interactive E3 Show floor Map listed Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age II as featured titles at EA’s booth. They were wrong.

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Legendary Pictures Scores Rights to Mass Effect: The Movie

Tweet The hounds of Hollywood hunger for fresh meat and even fresher alliterations as the execs at Legendary Pictures consider Mass Effect for a silver screen translation. Mark Protosevich (“I Am Legend,” “Thor”) has been commissioned to draft a screenplay.

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BioWare DLC Will Fill The Gaps Between Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3

Tweet Mass Effect 2′s lead producer, Casey Hudson, recently revealed in an interview that the plot holes between ME2 and ME3 will be filled by DLC. Oh joy of joys.

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Super Awesome Cosplay Weekly Spotlight #3

Tweet Here at Ripten, we embrace diversity. We understand that there are many different shades of geek and that we have no right to cater to the handful we deem worthy of our love. Why ignore those who spend hard earned money and precious time on the costumes we take for granted? Now, we bring [...]

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RipTen Review: Mass Effect 2 (PC, 360)

We are in the season of sequels. With titles like Modern Warfare 2, Bioshock 2, and Assassin’s Creed 2 beckoning you with their come-hither gleam from high atop their respective shelves, it’s no easy feat to pick just one. Mass Effect 2 will not make your decision any easier …

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Super Awesome Cosplay Weekly Spotlight #2

Tweet Here at Ripten, we embrace diversity. We understand that there are many different shades of geek and that we have no right to cater to the handful we deem worthy of our love. Why ignore those who spend hard earned money and precious time on the costumes we take for granted? Now, we bring [...]

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Super Awesome Cosplay Weekly Spotlight #1

Tweet Here at Ripten, we embrace diversity. We understand that there are many different shades of geek and that we have no right to cater to the handful we deem worthy of our love. Why ignore those who spend hard earned money and precious time on the costumes we take for granted? Now, we bring [...]

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The Twelve Days of Atlus: Random Swag Giveaway

Tweet Take heart all you fanboys and girls, for your Christmas is far from over. Oh, Atlus. The majority of us adore you for your bizarre, charmingly terrifying games. Those that shun you obviously fear the googly-eyed anime girls who only want to be your friend and steal your macca. You’ve all met Atlus, right? [...]

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Bayonetta: 10% Plot, 90% Awesome?

Tweet While Bayonetta won’t be available to the general public until the fifth, official reviews are already live and teeming with praise. But why? The general consensus is that Bayonetta perfected the combat controls from Devil May Cry and swapped out Dante for a woman wrapped in her own hair. The foot you see above [...]

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MMO Study Suggests that Girls Game Better than Men

Tweet It’s time to throw your paradigms out the window, my fellow loot-tards. The science doesn’t lie: women are officially better at MMO gaming than men. At least that’s what a recent study published in the Journal of Communication suggests. Four American universities recently combined efforts to assess the online gaming habits of males and [...]

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