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Sony Exec Praises Nintendo, Owns Two Wii U’s

Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida says the Wii U has “plenty of wonderful games.” It can be easy sometimes to imagine an executive in the ...

By Stew Shearer Legacy AuthorDecember 19, 2013

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The Hobbit Gets Spoofed in Misty Mountains Rap

The Warp Zone has produced a Hobbit-inspired rap lampooning the new film trilogy. Arguably one of the niftiest parts of the The Hobbit: ...

By Stew Shearer Legacy AuthorDecember 19, 2013

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DayZ Alpha Sells 172K in Its First Day

DayZ sold a solid 172,500 copies of its Early Access alpha edition in its first 24 hours of release. The standalone version of ...

By Stew Shearer Legacy AuthorDecember 19, 2013

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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Gets New Post-Apocalyptic Trailer

Gary Oldman readies humanity for gorilla warfare in the new trailer for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Warning: Spoilers up ahead. ...

By Stew Shearer Legacy AuthorDecember 18, 2013

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Nintendo Announces NES Remix for Wii U

NES Remix is available today and features tweaked versions of NES classics. In case you hadn’t heard, Nintendo delivered a slew of new ...

By Stew Shearer Legacy AuthorDecember 18, 2013

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Pillars of Eternity, Torment Dev Planning 2014 Kickstarter, Urquhart Says

Obsidian wants to crowdfund a new game next year, and it isn’t Alpha Protocol. Obsidian was the benefactor of some fairly substantial Kickstater ...

By Stew Shearer Legacy AuthorDecember 18, 2013

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Bitcoin Loses Half its Value After Chinese Crackdown

Bitcoin values declined more than 50 percent after BTC China announced it can no longer accept new yuan deposits. Bitcoin took a fairly ...

By Stew Shearer Legacy AuthorDecember 18, 2013

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Schwarzenegger’s Movie Kills Tallied in Epic Video

Arnold Schwarzenegger has pretend killed more than 500 people over the course of his movie career. While we worry about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s continued ...

By Stew Shearer Legacy AuthorDecember 18, 2013

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Rumor: Twitter Working on Tweet Editing

Anonymous sources say that Twitter is working on a new feature that would allow its users to make small corrections to live Tweets. ...

By Stew Shearer Legacy AuthorDecember 17, 2013

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DayZ Rushed By New Players After Early Access Launch

About 200 new players a second at the moment in the database… what the hell….— Dean Hall (@rocket2guns) December 16, 2013 More than ...

By Stew Shearer Legacy AuthorDecember 17, 2013

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The Hobbit Cast Performs Leonard Nimoy’s Ballad of Bilbo Baggins

The cast of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug recently did a reading of the lyrics to Leonard Nimoy’s Tolkien tribute. While he’s ...

By Stew Shearer Legacy AuthorDecember 17, 2013

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Sony: PS Plus to Better Connect New Indie Games to Players

Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Andrew House wants gamers find new “quirky” indie titles with the help the PlayStation Plus. In case you haven’t ...

By Stew Shearer Legacy AuthorDecember 17, 2013

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