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Your Health Will Regenerate in Resident Evil 6

“Wait a moment, let me duck down and heal from this zombie bite.” Since Resident Evil 4, Capcom’s landmark survival horror series has ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJuly 3, 2012

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Total War Returns to Rome

How far will you go for Rome? With 2011’s Total War: Shogun 2 out of the way (and superb), The Creative Assembly has ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJuly 2, 2012

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Army Scientists Shoot Lightning With Lasers

Sadly, the device does not also shoot shurikens. The cruel reality of military technology is that we may never have the type of ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJune 29, 2012

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Science Renders Breathing Obsolete

Oxygen can now safely be delivered via syringe or IV. At the risk of sounding obvious, breathing is kind of important for humans ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJune 28, 2012

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Angry Birds Dev: Casuals Don’t Read Reviews

Word-of-mouth marketing is more effective than any advertising. Core gamers attach an inordinate amount of importance to how a game reviews, lashing out ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJune 27, 2012

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Update: TVTropes Deletes All Rape Tropes

Articles discussing rape were incurring the wrath of Google. If you attempt to visit any of the various articles once linked under TVTropes’ ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJune 26, 2012

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Japanese Politicians Announce Plan to Build Gundams

Someday the Japanese military might actually field giant robots. Japan loves Gundam; we all know this. Some of us have even written entire ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJune 26, 2012

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Square Says Final Fantasy XI Is Its Biggest Cash Chocobo

Current FF11 players have spent 200,000 years in game. Pop quiz: Which Final Fantasy game has made publisher/developer Square Enix the most money? ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJune 25, 2012

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ESRB Outs GTA3 and Vice City for PS3

It’s like 2001 all over again. Landmark PS2 titles Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto may be on their way to ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJune 25, 2012

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Fez Patch Released, Might Kill Your Save Files

Polytron calls the update “kinda broken.” Indie darling Fez now has a major title update (aka patch) out on XBLA that adds some ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJune 22, 2012

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Ninja Gaiden III Was a “Japanese Hamburger”

An attempt to appeal to Western gamers backfired. A certain caustic-tongued British expat noted that Ninja Gaiden III seemed to be cribbing from ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJune 21, 2012

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Crytek: PC Gamers Shouldn’t Fear Next-Gen Consoles

There’s no reason why AAA-level games can’t be free-to-play. Crytek’s Cevat Yerli has, for many years, been in the business of making jaw-droppingly ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJune 19, 2012

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