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Redbox to add game rentals in June
Today Redbox announced the addition of game rentals to their ubiquitous self-service boxes found at supermarkets and gas stations across the US.
Wii, 360 and PS3 games will be included, priced at $2/day (DVDs currently go …
How do we save Rock Band?
Last week Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos talked with Edge about his company’s recent history and future plans, admitting that Rock Band 3 has not sold that well. With the shuttering of the Guitar Hero and …
MyGamerCard.net Shutting Down, Sadness Ensues
Anyone that has used an Xbox 360, and actually has a care about their gamerscore has at one point or another, been a user of MyGamerCard.net. The site was one of the first of its …
Warren Spector gets his DuckTales wish, in comic form
From Deus Ex to Disney Ducks.
At multiple times in multiple interviews, Warren Spector expressed his love for Uncle Scrooge while deflecting questions about camera controls in Epic Mickey. Now it seems Boom Comics has made …
Charity Child’s Play Breaks Donation Records Once Again
Another year, another record-breaking total at awesome gaming charity, Child’s Play.
Child’s Play is a community-based gaming charity that provides toys, books and – naturally – games for sick children all across the world. Since 2003 …
Pac-Man is desperate for your Rose Parade vote
So apparently Pac-Man will be featured in a Rose Parade 2011 float, and the organizers are running a contest where viewers can vote for their favorites.
In a playing field with such dull-as-dishwater combatants as Dick …
“It Gets Better” say LGBT EA employees
In a wonderfully frank exchange, lesbian, gay, bi and transgender employees of EA give an honest and often incredibly moving stories of their lives, from everything from school to bullying to coming out to loved …
Dara O’Briain Plays FPSs Like I Do
** EXPLICIT – NOT SAFE FOR WORK **
“I love video games. I enjoy saying that because half the room are looking at you and going, ‘ah Jesus, you’re 38′. You’re not supposed to like video …
Gaming is Child’s Play
Yup, it’s that time of year again … time to stop acting like the fat, slovenly, unsociable, incoherent sociopaths the mass media purports gamers to be, and instead reach out and think of those less …
Rock Band getting cheeky on Twitter
If you follow Rock Band on Twitter, you may have noticed their corporate voice getting a little bit snarky. The RB Twitter has been calling out “that other game” as being lacking in the DLC …
Free ride to the MLG? Got you covered!
Well, sorta free. Thanks to our good friends with the MLG, we’ve got your entrance fee covered for your team. That’s right, you and 3 of your best gaming companions can compete at the MLG …
Would you let your four year old play GTA?
Congratulations and welcome to Wednesday. Your Internet Freakout (TM) for today will be this article on Kotaku entitled “My Four Year Old Son Plays Grand Theft Auto.”
It’s a nicely written piece, where author Matthew Orona …
Aeropause: The Game is Now Official
For so many years, we at Aeropause have been providing our readers with great content. We have reviews, previews, first thirties, game nights, forums and so much more. We even started a horrible podcast forcing …
Arkham Asylum Tops 2010 BAFTA Video Game Awards
Batman: Arkham Asylum has swept the top award at last night’s UK 2010 Video Game BAFTA awards.
Developed by British team EIDOS, B:AA beat off stiff competition from Uncharted 2 and Modern Warfare 2 to grab …
Proper Product Placement
While researching Harriton High School, you know the one recently in the news for spying on its students via webcams on their laptops, I couldn’t help but notice the apparel of one young teenager featured …
This news story is violently ironic
Here’s a little games-and-violence story from sunny old Italy, “Italian teen stabs father in PlayStation row.”
A fifteen year old boy stabbed his father in the neck with a knife after dad tried to offer PlayStation …
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