Lawsuit: Retired NFLers Cheated by EA, Union [Lawsuits] (1)
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A suit brought by retired NFL players not only alleges they're due money for Electronic Arts' use of their likenesses and career stats, but also that their own union brokered a below-market deal as a favor to EA, helping it secure exclusive NFL rights for its Madden franchise. Via Ars Technica and GamePolitics, former Buffalo Bills defensive back Jeff Nixon has written an open letter to John Madden (also a Hall of Famer and former ...
Awesome Gears 2 website (2)
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Well, get a load of this. Remember the E for All Expo? Yeah it's this weekend in Los Angeles and finished as of today (so are the Cubs, unfortunately). But the Gears of War 2 booth there handed out a...
Sarah Palin: Sarah Palin, in Video Games (2)
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All you guys told me STFU this morning and post about video games, not politics. Well, suck it. Pwn or Die has a half-dozen shoops of everyone's favorite fappable vice presidential candidate, and I must say, the Samus costume is quite fetching. But good God, she looks like a dude — Rudy Giuliani with a wig, actually — in that lollipop GTA IV rendering. Guys if you're gonna do it, do it right, Palin never ...
A Look at the New Xbox Live Marketplace [New Xbox Live Experience] (1)
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Major Nelson takes a look at the revamped Xbox Live Marketplace (which is a little like "Action Figure Man: the How to Buy Action Figure Man episode" from The Simpsons) and of course concludes that it's awesome. You can compare the two "experiences" with the images above (bigger on the jump) and more on Hryb's flickr account. For those not necessarily wondering how streamlined their buying experience will be, just when it's all over with, ...
Old People: Play Video Games, Maybe Get a Break on Car Insurance [Geezers At The Wheel] (4)
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Is President Palmer still doing the Allstate insurance ads? Why didn't he tell us about this? It seems the U.S. auto policy underwriter wants to test whether video games can help make 50-year-olds (and up) into better drivers. Allstate's offering specialized computer games to some 100,000 customers in Pennsylvania between 50 and 75. The games they play are not necessarily driving specific; they test for visual alertness and try to slow cognitive decline. The developer, ...
Harmonix: Rock Band 2 Glitch Wipes Out Bands? (4)
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Lots of people on the Rock Band forums are complaining of a pretty heinous multiplayer glitch in Rock Band 2, which seems to only affect the 360 version. In a nutshell, it strikes bands with Live Enabled gamers as the primary account, and non-Live enabled as the secondary. The glitch wipes out your band in tour mode, and forces you to start over. Particularly aggravating is that it seems to wait until you're a ways ...
TF2 Spy Crab Calendar Out Now [Team Fortress 2] (1)
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Hey, 2009's almost upon us, and TF2Newbs has put out a 12-month zipfile of spies doing the crab walk in Team Fortress 2. My favorite is August, which captures this conversation between Nfreak (the calendar's creator) and his cohorts: {OSS} |CiC| Andy <3 amvalvo: Nfreak, turn around Bob Dole's Woodlen Critters >:3: We're trying to do a spycrab calendar Bob Dole's Woodlen Critters >:3: SS {OSS} |CiC| Andy <3 amvalvo: Bob, keep walking back and ...
How Grand Theft Auto IV Might Just Save Games for Windows [PC Gaming] (1)
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After two underwhelming years spent trying to be just as essential to PC gaming as Xbox Live is to console, Grand Theft Auto IV might just take Games for Windows and kiss away all its tears of frustration. Or, if Microsoft drops the ball, it could be another nail in the coffin of PC gaming, writes Wired. That might piss off PC gamers who are just fine with Steam and are tired of hearing more ...
LBP Dorks Already Adding Penis [Maximum Risky] (2)
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The life cycle of abuses of a popular game: 1) Cracked. 2) Torrented. 3) Used to make penises. Since Little Big Planet is still in public-beta stage, looks like we've skipped one and two and gotten a head start on making wiener. Honestly not sure if this is NSFW or not —it's Sunday after all, who the hell is working? — but I'll flag it anyway. Especially if you have a 4-year-old running around who ...
Mega Man Hat Keeps Head Warm, Awesome [Mega Man] (16)
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This guy has a really, really awesome wife. Not only did she knit him a cozy toboggan for the winter, she even accommodated his request to make it into a Mega Man helmet cap. It took two years of begging for her to finally relent. The post is from last year, and it's not for sale, but I'm sure this lucky dude (who looks like Gordon Freeman) is both enjoying his Mega Man 9 and ...
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New Xbox Experience Site Launches [Xbox Live] (2)
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Check your email, you probably just got a notice from Microsoft inviting you to a site demonstrating the new Xbox Live experience. No, a release date is not specified. The site features examples of the content and features you can expect once it does arrive, presented in a simulation of the new dashboard. There are videos on avatar creation and interaction with your friends (some of which we've already seen), and another touting its online ...
You Think You've Got a Crappy Job? [Lists] (3)
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Have we ever posted that surreal-ass Burger Time pic? God damn, I want this in black-light poster format. This illustrates Blog of Hilarity's look at the 8 Worst Real Life Jobs of Video Gamers. Not sure what their standards are, as Paperboy's benefits of being a paperboy is, quite reasonably, "MILFs," but Mario's benefits for being a plumber is "feces, lots of feces." What, is he coprophagic now? The 8 Worst Real Life Jobs of ...
Mega Man Does Not Fake the Funk [Video Game Music] (2)
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Some days I'm in the mood for video game soundtracks and all days, I am in the mood for some free tunes. Swedish artist Lie M-f B satisfies both with a new cover of a Mega Man 4's Dive Man theme this past week, and if you haven't discovered his work yet, you can also grab two full albums of music for the low low price of nothing. The video above is a sample of ...
Fun with FUD: Warcraft Helpin' th' Terrists? [War On Terra] (1)
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A researcher at the Pentagon-funded National Defense University has theorized ways in which terrorists could use virtual worlds to speak their nefarious code talk and coordinate attacks on U.S. insert. Yeah, insert facepalm. In a presentation, reported on Wired's blog, two freedom-haters swap terms such as "White Keep" and "Dragon Fire," meaning the White House and a nookular bomb, mwahahahaha. Except none of that shit exists in World of Warcraft. In the end, it reads ...
Bejeweled Coming to Warcraft. Yes, Really. [Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together] (2)
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Had to rub my eyes when I saw this Onion-esque headline at Wired. "Bejeweled, Warcraft Combine to Form World's Most Addictive Game." No, it's not April Fool's. The puzzle game will be added into WoW next Thursday, allowing players to kill time when they're on long, tedious tasks, like waiting for a raid or gold/item-farming. What's interesting on top of packing one world-class timesuck inside of another (in real world terms, this would be like ...
Ten Tricks for your Xbox 360 [Mods] (1)
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Some of these sound almost gratuitous — connect to two screens? Neah, never had a need for that. But TechRadar compiled a list of 10 tricks/hacks for you to extract more functionality out of your 360. Probably the most useful is No. 4 — how to play Xbox 360 games online for free, without any Live account at all. It involves setting up a free app that tricks the console into thinking the Internet is ...
Left 4 Dead Screens: You've Got Something on Your Mouth, Hon [Left 4 Dead] (1)
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Blood, mostly. Here, take a napkin, wipe it off ... These are 19 new screenshots of Left 4 Dead that NeoGAF put up earlier this week. Lots of dismemberment and bloodspatter, but I'm not seeing any mid-spew vomit money shots here. The full gallery is on the jump. NeoGAF has them at higher resolution. New Left 4 Dead Screens [NeoGAF]
Are Rock Band 2 Instruments Really Quieter? [Under Study] (1)
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Joystiq takes on the claim with a rather deep scientific analysis of the new game's guitar and drum pads. Using a microphone and a laptop to measure the decibel increase across three different modes of play (light, medium, and hard key presses and drum strikes), they came to the conclusion that yes, in fact, the instruments are quieter. Of the drums: "The largest difference between the two drums was observed at the medium drum strike ...
When Gamers Have Teh Babyz [Humor] (3)
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Oh, you might think this is soooooo kewte but really, I see about a dozen child protective services cases in this post by Screwattack. It's a gallery of cosplay kids and since they all appear younger than 6, I'm guessing they were not fully participating in these sartorial choices. You know, dress your kid like Master Chief, you're just asking for a neglect inquiry. When Gamers Have Kids [Screwattack]
