New XBox One Revealed

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The only thing missing from Microsoft’s unveiling of the new Xbox One gaming console system was dancing Vegas showgirls. The company announced their new entertainment and gaming console system live on Spike network with a presentation that would have been right at home in Vegas. After boring everybody to tears with the usual preamble about… [Continue Reading]

Philly Plays Pong

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A giant game of Atari’s Pong emerged on the side of the 29-story Cira Centre skyscraper in Philadelphia as Drexel University engineering professor Frank Lee embedded hundreds of LED lights to recreate the world’s first popular video game on the building – although he was unable to execute any paddle spin of the ball, the… [Continue Reading]

Madden’s March Madness

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We are a single solitary week away from the biggest collective male orgasm in the country – a little something called March Madness – and EA Sports has decided to get in on a little of that action by presenting a 64-player bracket to potential users to vote on who should grace the cover of… [Continue Reading]

Sony Reveals PS4, Also Plan For World Domination

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Sony wanted to make sure they had everybody’s attention – no CES, E3 or Comic-Con distractions to get in the way – it is all about Sony today and through most of the year as the company announced the launch of their newest console gaming device, the eight-gigabyte PlayStation 4. The PS4 will work with… [Continue Reading]

Badges? We Don’t Have No Stinkin’ Comic-Con Badges!

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Your chances of securing an attendance badge for the 2013 Comic-Con in San Diego were a mere sliver of a Batman cape width over slim and none and when badges officially went on sale last weekend, it was all over in 96 minutes – 2013 Comic-Con is officially sold out. Comic-Con had offered three badge… [Continue Reading]

WB Does The Math – Spy + Supercar + Video Game = Movie

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Warner Bros had an idea the other day – what if there was a movie based on a video game – has anyone thought of that before and would that make any money? What about a bad-ass superspy with a cool car – where have you heard this plotline before? Probably in the 1983 arcade… [Continue Reading]

Crysis 3 Gets Beta Band-Aid For Its Boo-Boos

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The open multiplayer beta for first-person shooter “Crysis 3″ is at the midway point and while the new Nanosuits seem to be holding up, game-maker Crytek has decided to tweak some of the weaponry involved in the game to stave off hordes of potentially irate gamers. The game will be available for PS 3, Xbox… [Continue Reading]

Pork Party Turns Psychedelic

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Banking on “Pass The Pigs” to be one of those classic party games that people don’t remember playing the next day. It could be because the old game featured pigs in the boring old pig colors of pink, black, brown and white [even though black and brown pigs are most certainly genetic oddities]. So, the… [Continue Reading]

Cat Beats Out Dried Booger As New Monopoly Game Piece

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Something had to go – the iron, the shoe or the wheelbarrow – from the Monopoly game, so Hasbro put it to a popular vote and fans decided that they still needed a shoe and wheelbarrow but an iron was not required for financial domination. To replace the iron, the contenders were a cat, robot,… [Continue Reading]

Keaton Signed For NFS: Bugatti! Bugatti! Bugatti!

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As we learned in “Beetlejuice”, when you want an underground figure to run your supercar race from New York to Los Angeles – all you have to do is say the “B” word three times – but, of course, you might get more than you wished. Michael Keaton has signed on as the eccentric host… [Continue Reading]

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