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Sim City – Still Unplayable, Still Sucks 8 Mar 2013 | 04:53 am
So I bought SimCity – Limited Edition on Amazon for $40 after the $20 promo credit (great deal, eh!?) and tried to play it last night–it wouldn’t even let me join the tutorial. Today I tried again, wi...
Big Bad BF3 Update 7 Dec 2011 | 04:53 pm
How slow is your BF3 update? Mine’s coming down at nearly 2 MB/s, but the thing is huge! A whopping 4GB, there’s a few cool new things in the patch: Performance improvements Better spawn protection ...
Tax Subsidies for Video Game Companies? 12 Sep 2011 | 05:11 am
The New York Times has a great article Rich Tax Breaks Bolster Makers of Video Games about government tax subsidies used by video games companies: For example, Electronic Arts of Redwood City, Calif....
Dota 2 Screenshots 16 Aug 2011 | 11:59 am
A couple screenshots from the upcoming Valve/Steam game DotA 2 came out not too long ago: It’s said that these screenshots are of a development build up to four months old, so no doubt the game will ...
Oslo, Norway Terrorist Anders Behring Breivik played Call of Duty, World of Warcraft 25 Jul 2011 | 11:34 am
According to Anders Behring Breivik’s Facebook profile, now deleted but immortal in an archived PDF form, the Norwegian terrorist was a gamer, playing World of Warcraft and Call of Duty: Modern Warfar...
Valve’s Episode Three Will Never Be Released 22 May 2011 | 01:47 pm
Do you think Half Life: Episode Three will ever get a real Valve release date? Given their track record of releasing original games (Counterstrike, Day of Defeat, Dota [not released by them], etc) and...
Sony’s Free PS3 Games: Which is Best? 19 May 2011 | 01:09 pm
So Sony is offering PS3 members affected by the recent PSN (Playstation Network) hacking and subsequent month of downtime a PlayStation Network and Qriocity Customer Appreciation Program in North Amer...
Mir Space Station Gameboy Auctioned for $1,220 9 May 2011 | 07:56 am
I came across lot no. 250 of The Space History Sale at Bonhams, which features a Gameboy console with Tetris and instruction manual, which features an unusual provenance; it has spent 196 days in spac...
Valve’s Dota 2: Same Old Dota, New Look 14 Oct 2010 | 06:20 pm
If you haven’t read Game Informer’s Valve’s New Game Announced, Detailed: Dota 2, go do that. But basically what it has announced can be summed up by the following points: IceFrog, aka Abdul Ismail, ...
Heroes of Newerth Glitch w/ Gauntlet 19 Sep 2010 | 04:38 pm
Check out this screencap from a Hon match, where I was Gauntlet, and got my flying glove stuck in the terrain by our middle lane’s rax: So i remained tied to the glove chain thing, couldn’t fire it o...
