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Ghost Rider Pees Fire In Spirit Of Vengeance Trailer

For better or worse, someone’s made a sequel to Ghost Rider, and the trailer is now online. 2007’s Ghost Rider was by no ...

By Mike Thompson Legacy AuthorAugust 20, 2011

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“Gadget Camp” Takes In Girls, Turns Out Budding Engineers

A new summer camp is training young women to be engineers and skilled laborers via hands-on science. Most of the time, summer camps ...

By Mike Thompson Legacy AuthorAugust 20, 2011

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Blizzard: We’re “Very Serious” About Diablo III On Consoles

Blizzard is officially looking to hire folks for a console port of Diablo III, but it won’t officially announce a console version of ...

By Mike Thompson Legacy AuthorAugust 20, 2011

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Black Knight Sword Looks Like The World’s Craziest Puppet Show

The latest game from Grasshopper Manufacture looks like those puppet shows we all watched as kids, only with changing backgrounds and lots of ...

By Mike Thompson Legacy AuthorAugust 19, 2011

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These Aren’t Your Grandpa’s Presidential Portraits

Washington fighting zombies? Jefferson sucker-punching gorillas? Jackson murdering aliens? Go on … Up until now, presidential portraits have been fairly stodgy affairs. They ...

By Mike Thompson Legacy AuthorAugust 19, 2011

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Skyrim Will Use Steamworks

If you’re worried about Skyrim requiring players to deal with terrible DRM software, don’t worry: Steamworks is the only thing Bethesda’s planning on. ...

By Mike Thompson Legacy AuthorAugust 19, 2011

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European Wiis Won’t Be Backwards Compatible Much Longer

Nintendo’s getting ready to release a new version of the Wii over in Europe, but it turns out this edition won’t work with ...

By Mike Thompson Legacy AuthorAugust 18, 2011

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Trenched Gets New Name, European Release

Microsoft has finally caved and will release Trenched in Europe under a new steampunk-y title. Double Fine and Microsoft have been having a ...

By Mike Thompson Legacy AuthorAugust 17, 2011

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Arkham City Bringing 3D Graphics To Non-3D TVs

Even if you only own a regular HDTV, you can still see the Caped Crusader in all his stereoscopic glory. Even though consumers ...

By Mike Thompson Legacy AuthorAugust 17, 2011

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Casual Developer Fined For Violating Child Privacy Laws

What’s the cost of violating a bunch of kids’ privacy? Probably less than you’d expect. It’s never a good thing when the Federal ...

By Mike Thompson Legacy AuthorAugust 17, 2011

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Japanese City Blatantly Rips Off Pikachu For Mascot

What? Who is this Pikachu you speak of? We’ve never heard of him, and we totally didn’t rip him off for our new ...

By Mike Thompson Legacy AuthorAugust 16, 2011

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Gargoyle’s Quest Is Coming To The West

21 years later, Gargoyle’s Quest is returning to handheld consoles outside of Japan. Gargoyle’s Quest is one of those titles that a lot ...

By Mike Thompson Legacy AuthorAugust 16, 2011

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