Here we go again.  A paper so out of touch with gaming and yet so full of opinions.  This time they’re trying to say that the core gamer backlash against Nintendo’s E3 announcements is nothing more than “nerd rage.”
Call it nerd rage. Like loyalists of a once-partisan politician who tacks toward the center later in [...]

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Stop me if I’ve gone on about this before, but I’ve been wondering if user created content (specifically on consoles) is something that we really want to be courting as an industry, or even as gamers.
On the surface, yeah, this sounds like a very good thing.  I think mainly because we’re all operating from the [...]

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You may or may not have seen this by now, but some average Joe built a sentry gun out of some servos, a laptop, a paintball gun, and a whole lot of ingenuity (and I’m sure some optical sensor equipment).

But what I love the most about it is:

He chose to use the Portal Sentry as [...]

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I’m sure half of you have seen this by now, but this dude modded a Garmin GPS unit to talk like GlaDOS.

I don’t even need it for directions. I just want to hack it to say even more insulting things when you miss a turn:

“What are you doing? Do you have any [...]

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I know I’m late on this one. Like, years late according to internet age (a couple of weeks here), but I had to get this off my chest.
Glenn, I used to like you. I know this will probably turn off a bunch of readers, but to hell with anyone who stops reading my [...]

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I finally got off my rear and went with a friend to go see the new Speed Racer movie last night, and I’m really glad I did. Not only am I a humongous Speed Racer fan from back when it originally aired on TV here in the states, I’m a fan of the Wachowskis [...]

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4 years, 100 million dollars, and a bunch of questionable “10″ ratings later, Rockstar has etched its newest offering onto a platter for the consumer populace to enjoy. For the consumer, it’s mostly win-win. For your $64, there is a lot of content there for your money. In fact, I’d even go [...]

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So rumors are being thrown about that there’s going to be some sort of prequel to Halo, now that Bungie’s split from Microsoft.
It doesn’t seem entirely out of the realm of possibility, if you consider that Halo is probably the prequel to Marathon (Bungie’s previous sci-fi trilogy). This old article did a decent enough [...]

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Thanks to all of the great comments in the previous threads, I decided that I wanted to do one more final analysis of the entirety of Portal after the previous two articles, mainly so that I could either convince myself one way or the other regarding my theory on why GLaDOS tortures Chell (and therefore [...]

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One of the things I’m noticing in my playthrough of Assassin’s Creed (although they aren’t the only ones doing this) that is bugging me a lot lately is this mis-placed idea that the character animations always have to “line up” with what he’s really doing in the world.  Somehow “next-gen” has come to mean “more [...]

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