Monthly Archives: February 2011

Prices prices Portals prices

Today seems like a good day to talk about upcoming games, pre order prices and some deals on some past games of yonder. Valve sale on steam and some dreamcast xbox 360 action out friday. Continue reading

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Make your bed and sleep in it, and scaevolus McRegion? Minecraft is updated to 1.3 in beta

Loaded up my original map on minecraft to be greeted with the mesage “Converting World to Scaevolus McRegion” and an extra option in the err options menu for lighting. ##update## There seems to be a fair amount of traffic to … Continue reading

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Gears Of War 3 Packshot Revealed

Packshot ahoy! News on Gears Of War 3 has been trickling out for over a year now – but aside from the Ashes to Ashes trailer and the avatar items on XBL (remember when you could vote for Clayton Carmine … Continue reading

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Kinect SDK confirmed by Microsoft for this spring

The kinect is this very cool peripheral for the xbox 360 that most can’t use in their tiny bedrooms/livingrooms thanks to the US user testing, not that it matters becaue there hasn’t been a great buzz for official usage for … Continue reading

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Minecraft “Dead Island spoof trailer”, i loves minecraft

So complementing bedgells Shawn of the Dead Island post below, this little parody/spoof whatever you call it trailer involves the much loved minecraft game. You may have noticed i like posting about minecraft, though sadly i never have time to … Continue reading

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Batman’s Arkham – Autumn Release and New Comic

Like Rihanna and her outfit from the latest Kanye West video, two excellent and beautiful things are about to come together. Batman is going back to comics, and he’s taking the Arkham video game franchise with him in a six-part … Continue reading

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Dead Island Meets Shaun – Hurrah!

Fan fiction works ever faster on t’interweb with this superb Shaun Of The Dead mash-up already hitting YouTube and edgarwright.com. Unbelievably, it’s just a week since the ace Dead Island trailer was lobbed like a hunk of undead rock into … Continue reading

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Love Death? Boong-Ga, Boong-Ga…

Top Ten lists are normally utter drivel. They’re filler for Sunday night telly, where D-list muppets fill E4’s downtime by pretending to remember their favourite hairstyle from 1984 (there was the mullet and the perm! We don’t need a whole … Continue reading

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Green Screen, after effects and a nice camera, yeah that’s what i want

So the people who did the minecraft video in a live action cg thing, have a few other video’s up, some of which show how they do things, they kinda speed through the after effects process to show how they … Continue reading

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Alcohol Arcade Lacks "In-Pants" Option

Behold The Gamerator! The custom-built arcade beaut that could finally persuade the girlfriend to have games in the kitchen… Because this sucker not only packs an in-built arcade, pre-loaded with classic titles from Street Fighter 2 (hurrah!) to Castlevania (huzzah!), … Continue reading

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