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    Doom: The Bored Game


    Finally, someone s taken all of the monotonous, shooting, running, solving, and monsters out of the Doom franchise and focused in on what made the game good: The instructional manual. Oh, that and cheap plastic figures and dice. Doom: The Boardgame runs for about the same price as the computer game. So pop some popcorn and get ready for some boarding goodness. More »

    2:38 PM on Mon Jan 31 2005
    By Brian Crecente
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    Where's My PSP?


    Why does Electronic Arts hate me so? I got an email Friday asking me if I had a Playstation Portable yet, because they had all kinds of cool games to send me if I did. Do you? We really want to send you these cool games. Oh, you don t? Awwww, too bad, because we really wanted to give you all of these cool games. They even went out of their way to write, in bold no less, that they had no PSPs, just cool games. More »

    2:27 PM on Mon Jan 31 2005
    By Brian Crecente
    67 views

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    Mini Pong


    Wanna play a little Pong? I crack myself up. More »
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    Gran Turismo 4: Too Little, Too Late?


    After the years of waiting for Gran Turismo 4, turns out no one might want it when it hits shelves. Gamesblog makes a good point: For the most part gamers have moved past the world of pristine cars and slick unchanging graphics and into the world of collision damage and customization. Will anyone really want to play a game that doesn t have a ludicrously good crash physics engine? More »

    12:32 PM on Mon Jan 31 2005
    By Brian Crecente
    50 views

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    Dressed to Game


    Lots of companies make T-shirts, ties, heck, even underwear, for their games. But only Capcom pushes it up a notch by making replicas of their characters in game clothes available for purchase. You can buy Biohazard 4 Leon s long sleeve shirt, weathered blue jeans or even his belt on the site. If things get cold you can pick up a spiffy jacket or engineer boots. It s all perfect for that creepy game-obsessed stalker in your life. More »

    12:29 PM on Mon Jan 31 2005
    By Brian Crecente
    96 views

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    Two New Gawker Sites Launch

    Gawker Media, the juice behind Kotaku, just popped out two more babies. From Dr. Evil way up on floor 231 of Gawker Towers: Lifehacker.com is a hand-holding smarty guide to time-saving tips and tricks for the computer. Gridskipper is a sassy urban travel guide to sexy bars, sexy hotels and sexy sex. More »

    12:17 PM on Mon Jan 31 2005
    By Brian Crecente
    165 views

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    Pokemon Causes Cancer


    No, not that annoying little yellow critter from Nintendo, I m talking about the POK Erythroid Myeloid Ontogenic factor also known as POKEMON. What the hell the scientists at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center have against Pokemon, besides the typical laundry list of complaints, is beyond me. Maybe they thought it would be funny to name a carcinogenic after a cartoon character. One day some 5-year-old is going to be able to tell his buddies at school that Pokemon killed his mom. More »

    11:29 AM on Mon Jan 31 2005
    By Brian Crecente
    179 views

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    N-Gage Takes More Then a Year to Tie Ds's First Month

    Nokia has finally released some real numbers for the amount of N-Gages they sold. Cumulative sales for the system since its launch in October 2003 is 1.3 million. It took Nintendo about a month to sell that many DSs. More »

    10:08 AM on Mon Jan 31 2005
    By Brian Crecente
    69 views

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    Night of the Naked Gnomes


    They came in loin clothes and nothing else, hundreds of angry little gnomes protesting the character balance of the warrior class in World of Warcraft. A bunch of gamers who play warriors decided Saturday night to create new Gnome characters and hop around in mass on the Argent Dawn server because they are ticked about the way their character class was adjusted in an update. Not sure what naked Gnomes have to do with all of this, but they re fun and easy to kill. All the protesters received a three hour ban from the game and a stern warning. Word to the wise: One level one Gnome easy to kill, 150 level one Gnomes not so easy. More »

    9:37 AM on Mon Jan 31 2005
    By Brian Crecente
    241 views

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    Paper Katamari Damacy Prince


    If the paper nose and the square cat weren t enough Katamari Damacy origami for you, then how about the prince himself? Making the prince is a neat little bit of paper cutting and folding. Granted, if I did it, it would look like a ball of compact trash, especially right before I tossed it in my trash can in frustration. More »

    8:01 AM on Mon Jan 31 2005
    By Brian Crecente
    1,372 views

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