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There are only 2 Thief games in my book. The 3rd and the upcoming 4th game are abominations that should be spat upon by any true Thief fan. That's why I'm happy that the original has gotten revived in digital format (compatible with Windows 7), by Good Old Games and is available for purchase for just $10. The Thief games have been the best and truest stealth games I've ever played, and no

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Anyone with a bit of common sense knows that there is nothing real about reality TV, but some shows, like Finding Bigfoot, are so unbelievable that it's just makes you shake your head. Detractors of the show, like me, have been critical of the lack of any semblance of scientific investigation and the fact that the investigators find Bigfoot everywhere and in everything. Lead by Matt Moneymaker (

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There seems to be a lot of unnecessary outrage over the cloning or copying of other games - Especially in the arena of mobile games/apps. The latest stupid fight is between Nimblebit and Zynga because Zynga cloned a tower game of theirs. Now they're sending sarcastic letters back and forth and making a spectacle of themselves. Apparently the new guys to the videogame biz don't know that cloning

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FREE GAME OF THE DAY Ever been frustrated or angry at something the government does? Well this might be the game for you. This is a protest game made to protest SOPA/PIPA and not only is it hilarious, but it can help get some of that frustration out. It's sort of a button mashing game, and I've said I wouldn't recommend those, but you don't really have to button mash. I'll make an exception in

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QUOTE OF THE DAY When we started developing the game we made a conscious decision that it was all about building the game for a platform and making sure the game was specific to that platform. Given that we’ve been working on the game quite a while before Wii U was announced I think it would not be right to try and port it across. If we started building a game for the Wii U we would build it very

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I've shown you that the videogame industry believes that used games are tantamount to theft and worse than piracy, and I've shown you that digital distribution is how they tried to combat used games this generation by seizing more control over games and forcing online passes, etc. But what is the next step? Stephen Totillo has offered up a rumor that Microsoft's next console, Xbox 720, will have

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QUOTE OF THE DAY When I traveled across Russia by train, I met several people who told me that they had first discovered my work through the ‘ pirated’ edition I posted on my website. Nowadays, I run a ‘Pirate Coelho’ website, giving links to any books of mine that are available on P2P sites. And my sales continue to grow — nearly 140 million copies world wide. - Paulo Coelho, writer The MPAA,

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Tired of game companies slicing up their games so they can sell them to you in pieces in the name of downloadable content? Tired of exclusive DLC that you can only get is certain stores? Well, EA has taken the next step and has started linking DLC to physical products - namely a set of figurines and an art book for Mass Effect 3. Buy these products and you will get exclusive DLC for the

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So I just learn that Taco Bell wants to get rid of their 99¢ value menu, and replace it with a revamped value menu were the tacos cost $1.00 and anything else worth while is over a dollar. Apparently TB isn't making enough money on their two spoonfuls of 80% beef tacos even though they're one of the most overpriced items in any fast food restaurant. When I can get a double cheeseburger for 99¢

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QUOTE OF THE DAY I know that we have been asked to look into some code work for [Sony's Online Pass] but I don't believe that a decision has been made at this point. Or if it has been made it has not been shared with me yet. I'd actually prefer that we don't do it, even though it's probably good business, only because we have such a mountain to climb in terms of gaining people's good faith,

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Since I started blogging I've always used a 10 point scale in my reviews, but today that will change. It's been a long time coming, but as of today I will only use the more simple 5 point scale (bad, mediocre, average, good, great). Even though I've always said that my scores aren't an objective measure of anything (nobody's scores are, but at least I admit it), the 10 point scale always seemed

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QUOTE OF THE DAY After my ordeal with EA Customer support over my brothers BF3 online pass not working (it was never resolved, EA refused to give him a new code even after proof of purchase) I actively promote people to ignore all games that use this scam. Sure I only reach a small portion of buyers, but at least I stick to my principle. Online passes are a scam. Simple as that. Well at one

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Thanks to the diligence of the people and companies who stood up for internet consumer rights the SOPA bill has been retracted from congress and the PIPA bill has been postponed. It is a small victory in the never ending battle against anti-consumer forces, but it is sweet nonetheless. However, stay vigilant because the PIPA bill isn't officially dead and the copyright industry isn't going to

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Did you know that the MPAA, RIAA and ESA use fake, made up, figures to justify their anti-piracy crusade? No! I can't believe it! How could this be! Yes, it's true and these made up figures are used to deceive politicians and garner sympathy from the ignorant public. Just like climate change nuts manipulate data and use scare tactics to attract people to their cause, the copyright industry uses

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The Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA (PIPA is another version of the same thing), is a bill in the U.S. Congress that effectively hands over the keys to the internet to corporations and the entities that represent them like the MPAA, RIAA and ESA. The purpose of the bill is to stop piracy, but: 1. These group's definition of piracy ranges from lending someone your movie or CD to selling your

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THQ is rumored to be going out of business and I can't say I feel sorry for them. They are a poster boy for the stupidity of the industry this generation, and I'm surprised they lasted this long. They have canceled most of their future games and are now actively looking for someone to buy them out before they completely die. Like most other companies they openly bashed the Wii and blamed the Wii

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VIDEO OF THE DAY I've always like Weird Al, but he's hit some grand slam home runs recently. This is one of them. Also check out 'Perform this way'.

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FREE GAME OF THE DAY I didn't know they were fan made Space Quest games, and while I haven't played any of them any free game effort of this magnitude deserves a nod. These guys put in a lot of work to bring us a fully featured game for FREE, and I thank them for it. Download

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"Hardcore" shoot-em-up developer Cave has just announced that they will be putting their "hardcore" games on hold in order to invest in social gaming because their financials aren't doing so well. I couldn't help but find that funny. I find it funny because the "hardcore" industry has done nothing but bash casual and social gaming. We all know about Nintendo's Wii which will go down in history

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I'm sure that to Nintendo including this piece of plastic makes complete and perfect business sense. They probably believe that this stand will either encourage "casuals" to buy the game or solve some nonexistent problem they believe is holding games like this from selling millions. Whatever their reasoning I can tell you that it's stupid and will have little to no effect on sales of the game

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QUOTE OF THE DAY Ubisoft services are unavailable at the moment. Cant get online on any of their PC games, some recent stuff like ACR automatically goes into offline mode, but other games want you to login into uPlay beforehand. You cant do that so you cant go offline, so you cant play your game. And because of the holidays radio silence from ubisoft. Paying customers locked out, pirates

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STUPID ARTICLE OF THE DAY PS4 early specs 'more powerful' than Xbox 720, claims source By Andy Robinson Sensationalism is not new to the videogame media, neither is an obsession with technology ("hardcore" videogaming is a tech industry now and not an entertainment industry), but as a testament to how terrible the videogame media is and what a perfect storm of stupid can form when these two

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VIDEO OF THE DAY I had a laugh this morning when I heard they called this ridiculous grocery store 'whole paycheck'.

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If you are looking forward to console gaming in 2012 then you are part of the problem. The landscape of console gaming is corrupt and deteriorated, and it should be lamented. All of the insane, anti-consumer money grabbing schemes that started with the Xbox 360 and PS3 will now be taking over Nintendo's latest console the Wii U. If Nintendo hadn't forced my hand by abandoning the Wii then I

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STUPID ARTICLE OF THE DAY Today's stupid article is actually a video, a video that is a shining example of how not to advocate for something. In this case it's online "equality" for female gamers. We all know that the "hardcore" videogame industry is a sexist, male-centric club where it is impossible to portray women as anything but scantily clad eye candy. Their idea of a strong leading woman

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Remember when Nintendo said they were not really interested in the DLC ripoff schemes that have overtaken the videogame industry this generation? Looks like they changed their mind. I can't say that I'm surprised though given Nintendo's head-first plunge into the blood red ocean they denounced at the start of this generation (with the Wii) - A plunge that has moved them to partner with the most

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QUOTE OF THE DAY The market is going to continue to differentiate based on the types of experiences that consumers want. As an example, if I’m the head of a household of a family of four, and my disposable income is $50,000 to $60,000, I’m going to continue to look at the Wii because of the software, and it’s a great entertainment device. For consumers who want to have the latest gadgets and have

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Isn't it interesting how videogame companies are increasingly including clauses in their terms of service that prevent customers from taking legal action against them? If the industry wasn't doing anything shady why the need to try and limit your customer's rights and satisfaction? The latest company to do this is Sony who apparently sneaked a 'no sue' clause into their latest TOS update and now

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Can someone explain to me why they sell cold cuts with hard, whole peppercorns in them? I'm talking about entire, rock hard peppercorns littered throughout thin slices of meat. In my case this morning it was Cotto Salami, and I can't understand why anybody would want to buy and eat that. Each slice was packed with peppercorns and I had to spend a minute per slice to get rid of them. Seriously,

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QUOTE OF THE DAY [The female audience] is obviously the untapped holy grail. You won't see that so much in 2012, and in 2013 we'll still be very much at the core of it, but shortly after that a lot of the business strategy will be around targeting a somewhat younger demographic- Jim Ryan, Sony Europe The holy grail is something considered so precious that it is still actively being sought today,

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It still amazes me how Nintendo had the nerve to say they didn't have software problems. If this chart says anything it's 'we don't have software for you to play!' For some reason people believe that America will get Nintendo's other big Japanese games that they didn't want to release here, but I haven't heard of anything outside of Xenoblade. Even then, the release for Xenoblade, and any

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Great video!

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At least EA's does. EA's online passes not only penalize people who buy used, but they also penalize people who buy late - It doesn't matter if it's a brand new $60 copy. If you don't buy the game within a certain time frame you have to pay extra. There needs to be an award for worst, most anti-consumer company, and EA needs to win it. They've more than earned it. Seriously people, stop buying

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Ever get banned or moderated at some website unfairly? It's quite common given the human condition. But when you combine unfair punishment with commerce you get EA banning people from playing their games for no reason. It's bad enough that EA denies you access to a game you just paid $60 for because you said a bad word, but now they are doing it in error or basically for no reason whatsoever. If

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Thinking of buying a Playstation Vita? Well you are going to need a playstation network account. How many accounts can you have per Vita? Only one. Basically, all of your saves, trophies, patches and online content are tied to that account and you can't share it with anyone. If someone does want to use your Vita they are going to have to format the system and erase all the data. This form of DRM

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So Nintendo.com has this banner up on their Wii page, but do you notice anything wrong with it? See it says "just announced", but anyone who has been following Xenoblade knows that is total bullshit. Xenoblade was "announced" over two years ago and released 17 months ago in Japan. OVER A YEAR AND A HALF AGO! Yet, Nintendo continues to treat their American customers like idiots who don't know

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After Minecon it became known that Jens Bergensten, also known as Jeb on his twitter, was now lead developer of Minecraft. No one was sure what that meant exactly, but Notch cleared things up today on his Tumblr. According to Notch, Jeb will now have final say in Minecraft development decisions which pretty much means the game is his to do with as he pleases. As of yesterday, Jens Bergensten is

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Looks like Jeb has finally gotten back to work after a short post Minecon vacation and has released the first real snapshot that changes farmland characteristics and makes apples available from trees. Now apples have been in the game since I bought it over a year ago, and only now are they finally getting properly implemented into the game. Think about that for a second. It took over a year to

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According to my meager understanding of French and Google translate a French consumer orginization has filed a complaint against some videogame publishers for things like bugs, DRM and online passes. How much power they have and what the consequences of this action are, are unknown to me, but it can only be a good thing when people speak out about the horrific anti-consumer practices of the

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QUOTE OF THE DAY By focusing on piracy as the evil enemy of PC gaming, the industry loses sight of two things: first of all, pirates are better at distributing games than many companies are. Why else would someone risk getting malware or a virus on their computer from a torrent, except that they’ve made it simpler to get a game through pirates than it is through traditional digital distribution?

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Now that Minecraft has been fully released (lol), Jeb has gotten back to work and has announced that there will be weekly snapshots of the bug fixes and features that he will be working on. He has already released the first one which fixes a server error. So... We are working towards automated snapshots, and will try to get one "prerelease" out every week, regardless if it's stable or not These

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QUOTE OF THE DAY It’s hard because there’s so much piracy and so few people are paying for PC games that we have to precisely weigh it up against the cost of making it. - Stanislas Mettra, Ubisoft Didn't Skyrim just sell a couple million on PC? Hasn't Minecraft sold 4 million on PC? Oh wait, this is Ubisoft we're talking about. They're a bunch of morons. source

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As if creating a public spectacle in order to release an unfinished game wasn't drama enough it seems that there is a nerd fight brewing between Notch and one of the presenters at his convention. According to Notch, this group of youtubers couldn't moderate their language and dropped some F-bombs during the family friendly conference (whether in person or through video). Now Notch is angry and

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VIDEO OF THE DAY Great video!

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PC 1 player, Online multplayer Variable Difficulty Where do I begin? I've been playing Minecraft for over a year now and have followed the progress of the game very closely. It seems a bit surreal that it's finally getting released. I feel like I'm a part of the game, and in a way I have been as a beta tester. I love the game, and you should know that off the bat, but I also have a lot of

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After suffering through one of the most horribly laggy live streams (thanks IGN), and watching a pretty awkward presentation that was dominated by a girl with pink hair I can say that Minecraft 1.0 is officially out. My review of the game will be posted soon.

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Playing and following Minecraft everyday makes me forget that it's just a small indie game that isn't that popular. In spite of the fact that it's sold around 4 million copies, the vast majority of gamedom have no clue what Minecraft is or is about. The worst part is when you get the "hardcore" idiots who disparage the game and say stuff like: It's LittleBigPlanet but done shitty. - TheSeks,

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So Minecon is a convention where the game will be officially launched, but I really don't know what to make of the whole thing since every comment out of Mojang talks about the game as if it's no where near being finished. They've already said that villager AI will be implemented next year and today I found another tweet where Jeb says that Bows will be enchantable AFTER Minecon. So... What's

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...Until sometime NEXT YEAR. After making a big deal about the adventure update and how towns and villagers would be a big part of that they ended up being empty shells with townsfolk who were so dumb the only thing they knew how to do was kill themselves by walking off ledges. Now Jeb has let us know that Mojang is hiring an AI specialist to work on the villagers who they hope to have working

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In March someone discovered that EA's terms of service for their new online system, Origin, stated that being banned or punished on their forum could affect your access to your EA games. Naturally such a ridiculous notion started an outrage and EA officially said that this was a mistake in spite of banning someone from their game for a forum comment. Well EA is still banning people from their

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Minecraft will officially be "complete" and launched on the 18th. I have to put "complete" in quotes because according to Mojang the game will continue to be updated after the official launch at Minecon. I'm not exactly sure what that means, but I know that a lot of bug fixes will likely be part of it. There has been speculation of paid downloadable content, but no one knows where Minecraft goes

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IGN actually did a bit of journalism and posted a quote from Sledgehammer games co-founder, Glen Schofield's, Twitter. Apparently he didn't realize that everyone in the world can see your tweets so after they posted the story he deleted it. I don't usually do this but, if u like MW3 go 2 Metacritic.com & help our user score. It's suspiciously low. Be honest but help if u agree.After his begging

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So... Can someone please explain this trend of having massive, extravagant videogame launch parties and then inviting completely unrelated celebs to it? Are these frivolous events part of the reason why development costs are going up? More importantly why are celebs that have nothing to do with videogames going to these things? Christina Aguilera? Really? When was the last time she was

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So there's this show on History channel called 'Ancient Aliens' that is more of a comedy than anything else because it's so ridiculous. Basically they gather a bunch of UFO wackjobs who believe that everything in history was done by or influenced by aliens to talk about their version of history. Pyramids? Aliens did it. Roman empire? Aliens built it. World War 2? Aliens started it. Declaration

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VIDEO OF THE DAY Here's the latest ship I've built in a swamp. It's a derelict ghost ship that crashed in the shallow waters. I'm thinking of building some sort of small ghost town nearby to go with it, but I'm not sure yet.

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Well MW3 for Wii is here and as expected it's missing a bunch of killstreaks and other stuff. Like I said after Black Ops I'm not going to pay full price for a game that is missing content. Lag shooting also seems to be back, which was a major annoyance in COD4 for Wii (aiming 2 inches in front of your target all the time is not fun).

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So the story of Mass Effect 3 got leaked on the internet and now EA/Bioware are sending legal threats to sites and forums posting them. If the fact that they are acting like they don't know how the internet works (aka, they are never going to stop the dissemination of that information now) wasn't bad enough then the fact that they are threatening people over story spoilers should speak to you of

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According to a survey taken by "industry professionals" Steve Jobs and Apple are the two most influential forces on the videogame industry. More influential than Microsoft, Sony and this generations market leader Nintendo. This isn't just recently either, this is for all time. Yeah, Steve Jobs has had more influence on videogames than the creator of Super Mario Brothers according to these "

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FREE GAME OF THE DAY Prison Break is an experimental light gun game from Ludum Dare where you suppress a prison riot with a lot of bullets. It's very basic, but since the light gun concept isn't complicated it's also fun.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY There's plenty of ground between "excited" and being a goony, unprofessional manchild. This kind of crap happens because most of the audience doesn't want thoughtful, substantive criticism; they want a fellow fanboy to gush about how everything is great in their favorite niche. They want garbage journalism so that's what outlets provide. - DjangoReinhardt, Neogaf This is a

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QUOTE OF THE DAY As we learned a bitter lesson with the launch of the Nintendo 3DS, we are trying to take every possible measure so that the Wii U will have a successful launch. - Satoru Iwata, Nintendo, CEO Iwata says they learned a bitter lesson from the 3DS, but he doesn't mention what that lesson was. See that's very important because without that bit of info we have no idea what they really

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Nintendo is losing money for the first time in a while, and I have to say that they deserve every lost dollar of it. They left the Wii and it's customers out to dry with no software and launched an overpriced handheld that focused on a 40-year-old gimmick. They promised massive 3rd party support for the 3DS and have yet to see one major 3rd party game released on it. To further add to the insult

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Short Story: IGN posts a review. Review says the game is too short blah, blah. Reviewer gets told on Twitter that he didn't play the full game because there is more content. Reviewer denies then eventually ninja edits review. Long Story: If the videogame media aren't outright lying to you about a game because they care more about advertising dollars than your loyalty they are posting reviews

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Threads like THESE make me want to drop a nuke on the "hardcore" videogame industry and the idiotic gamers that enable them. Almost every week there is an example of a media outlet curbing their opinion to appease the industry, and yet gamers don't care and continue to hang on every fraudulent score as if their life depended on it. What? Uncharted 3 only got 9s and 10s? You don't say? The latest

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Picture this scenario. You are playing an RPG and you just spent the last 2 hours grinding, fighting monsters to earn enough gold to buy armor and weapons. You head back to the shop plop down 1000 gold coins on the table and the blacksmith hands you a rusty sword that does 1 damage just before pointing to the sign on the counter that says no refunds.Would you be angry? Would you throw your

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I hate the mall because almost everything in there is insanely overpriced, but I've been having a huge soft pretzel craving that exploded today so I went. I even braved a thunderstorm to try and satisfy this hunger. The only place near me that sells them is Auntie Anne's and I know that they aren't cheap, but my jaw hit the floor when I got there and saw the prices.For a regular soft pretzel they

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SONG OF THE DAYHere's a beautiful song that I love from a hidden object game called Sonya. It's a good game too so check it out over at Big Fish Games.╔

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QUOTE OF THE DAYOne of the things game writers should accept is that their audience is largely made up of immature twats who don't really know what they want. They complain that writers are PR mouthpieces until one takes to task a game they are interested in. They complain about critics not judging games harshly enough until one scores a game they're interested in too low, at which point the

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I'm not sure of the details because I can't read Swedish, but it appears that Mojang has handily won the incredibly frivolous and crazy lawsuit issued by Bethesda. Thankfully, the court had people with enough common sense to see that you can't copyright the word "scrolls" and that there is no confusion between an RPG and a card game.Bethesda should be ashamed of themselves, and I hope they have

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So there's a new indie game coming out that you can get for a dollar. The problem is that you only pay a dollar if the game reaches 10 Million preorders. No, you read that right. They want 10 Million preorders. If the fact that an indie company wants more preorders than the most popular big budget games of today get isn't crazy enough they will give all of their proceeds to charity if they DON'T

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VIDEO OF THE DAYSkeletons love jumping in water!

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I don't like EA and will never buy their games, but when I heard they were going to make a free version of the Sims for Facebook I thought it would be interesting. The game turned out to be pretty good, but unfortunately it has been plagued with bugs and poor performance (EA sucks at making games).The game is nothing but tiny static images that change from time to time yet it takes minutes

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EA being excited about Wii U can only mean bad things for consumers. Why Nintendo partnered with one of the most anti-consumer videogame companies out there is anyone's guess. I imagine it's a combination of no one wanting to touch Nintendo with a ten foot pole after the Wii and EA trying to get their new online service off the ground. Whatever the reason it doesn't bode well for gamers, and we

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FREE GAME OF THE DAYRebuild 2 is the sequel to Rebuild! where your goal is to take back your city from the zombie horde one building at a time. While it adds a few new things it isn't that much different from the first game which is a good thing. Unfortunately the game tries to pimp some other game while you play and that is a big no-no in my book. Every few minutes this other game is being

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FREE GAME OF THE DAYFrantic Frigates is a fun little time waster where you guide your little ship around as it destroys enemies and collects loot. There are some upgrade options even though they aren't too well implemented. It's simple, fast and fun.

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Complaining about Notch and Minecraft is getting tiresome, but when the guy continues to say and do incredibly stupid things it's hard not to. In his latest tweet Notch once again tells us that something he just recently started is getting delayed so he can work on something else. As someone on the Minecraft forum put it - "Notch has the attention span of a child with ADD".In spite of the fact

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It's a fact that most videogame communities suck, but if there was ever proof that the Minecraft community sucked it's the whining over the new Enderman mob. The Enderman are a mob that spawn according to the rules of every other hostile mob, they even die in water which other mobs don't do. They don't even attack you unless you look directly at them. So why is the minecraft community whining

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It seemed to be a joke when Notch first mentioned that Bethesda, makers of the Elder Scrolls RPG franchise, was suing Mojang for their new card game called Scrolls. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be a joke even though Notch continues to make light of the situation. Bethesda is claiming the Scrolls game infringes on their Elder Scrolls name and will cause confusion. Any way you look at it the

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Stuff like this really shows us what Minecraft is capable of. It's too bad it's creator is a lazy jackass.

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VIDEO OF THE DAYHere is the mob trap that I tend to use in Minecraft. It's a drowning trap that's small and easy to make. The latest feature I've started to include is the redstone detection system which tells me when items are ready for collection. It's great because it keeps me from checking an empty trap.

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In my quest to find good free games on the internet I often come across one of the worst things anyone could ever do to a PC user. It's bad, annoying and frankly I won't play games that require you to mash your mouse buttons as if they were a gamepad. My mouse gets enough wear and tear from simple everyday use so the last thing I want to do is play a game that forces me to mash on the sensitive

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So Mojang pre-released 1.9 and as expected it's missing a bunch of stuff and broke a bunch of stuff that was working properly. The best part is that along with the release came the announcement that the stuff which was supposed to be in 1.8, which was delayed to 1.9 is now going to be delayed to 1.10. So the "adventure update" has been flushed down the toilet for the typical incremental updates.

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Is there anything more frustrating than anti-virus software that doesn't remove the viruses it finds? I just spent the last 20 minutes scanning, rebooting and re-cleaning my pc because every time I cleaned my computer and performed another scan the same viruses popped up. At least Micorosft security essentials is free, but I've tried them all and they're all pretty much the same and some are

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So I've been trying to find a cheap printer with individual ink carts that I can get cheap, but it seems the printer companies have decided to declare all out war on consumers and 3rd party ink sellers by eliminated individual ink carts. Now pretty much every inkjet printer uses the insanely stupid and wasteful tri-color cart that forces you to buy a new cart when just one of the colors is empty.

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Have I told you logitech sucks? I'm sure I have, but let me remind you. In spite of their high prices their mice are total garbage. I used to buy the middle-of-the-line models for around $25, but after throwing a couple away I swore I would never buy Logitech again. For the most part I haven't, but in February I found a deal on some cheap brand new Logitech mice and bought a pair. Well one of

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"I didn't ask for this", is the line in the TV commercial for this game, but it's also the line gamers are repeating now thanks to having their game "updated" with in-game advertisements courtesy Square-Enix.As I understand it the Ads are on loading screens, and were recently added to the game in a mandatory update (don't you just love those?). Of course the fanboys and apologists are dismissing

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Well, Minecraft 1.8 is out, and while it runs significantly better than the pre-release it's still just a shadow of what it was supposed to be. There are no NPC villages, animal spawning has been screwed up and left half finished, experience orbs do nothing, new items dropped by monsters do nothing, the terrain generator is screwed up, and Notch is nowhere to be found.As much as I like the update

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A lot of people like to say that PC gaming is superior and like to bash consoles, but after trying to play COD PC online I have to disagree. The COD community is a collection of manchildren who complain and whine so much that it makes your ears bleed, but on PC you get to see these babies in all their glory.(click title to continue)On a console you pick up the controller and play. Simple with no

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QUOTE OF THE DAYI understand you’re not comfortable with the business side of journalism, but particularly if you want to keep writing about gaming as a career, this is how it works. That said, I don’t believe we have to sacrifice our ethics. If some news post comes out ripping GT5 a new one, we won’t lie and say it’s not true, but we will just have to skip that particular story in our coverage.

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QUOTE OF THE DAYOn my small level it's a million people playing my game without giving me one cent. And my calculation is, as Quantic Dream, I lost between €5 and €10 million worth of royalties because of second-hand gaming. - Guillaume de Fondaumiere, Quantic Dream Here is yet another example of the arrogance of the videogame industry where they feel that they are entitled to money from a used

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Thanks to what I can only assume was a massive wave of disappointment and complaints, Mojang decided to release the 1.8 update in an unofficial capacity in order to give the rabid fans a taste and to help bug test. On the plus side we get to finally experience what we've been waiting over a month for, but on the minus side 1.8 is unstable, bug ridden and nowhere near ready for release. The

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QUOTE OF THE DAYI used to work [in the videogame industry] and I know we had to work 7 days a week in the weeks leading to the release. And that is still the case everywhere. Minecraft is two months away from release, the content is not nearly feature complete, there's lots of bugs and what happens? Notch decides to work on another game and jeb decides to not work on the weekend. And then I see

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This is why we don't have the 1.8 update yet. Of course, if Notch had more than one person working on the game they would have fixed this a long time ago. Hell, we probably would have all the features they promised in 1.8 too.

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As predictable as the constant delays and rushed updates for Minecraft are they are still disappointing. I should be playing Minecraft right now, I want to be playing Minecraft right now, but thanks to Mojang's crap development philosophy I won't. In the past week we've learned that Notch has only one person actually working on the 1.8 update. We've also learned that they don't want to release

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EA recently talked about their online pass system and how it's come along and they said two important things. First they talked about "found revenue", or the fact that this money is coming from a new source. Second they justified this new source of revenue by perpetuating the lie that used game purchasers steal bandwith in order to play their used games.The videogame industry is a pathetic cycle

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