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In Defence Of Prince Of Persia

Posted by Luke Plunkett at 10:30 PM on January 7, 2009

Ah, Prince of Persia. You either love it for what it tried, or hate it for what it tried. We love it, though, and Tom Cross at GSW does a good job of explaining why.


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What Do You Do With Your Old Games?

Posted by Brian Ashcraft at 4:00 PM on January 7, 2009

Hey, we're in a recession! And some of us have old games to unload. What to do, what do do.


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A Peek Inside MTV's Desks

Posted by Brian Crecente at 8:00 AM on January 7, 2009

MTV's Stephen Totilo is mixing things up over at Multiplayer, first redesigning the site to look oddly familiar, now posting odd, news-light videos.


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See Patapon March Across Human Flesh

Posted by Luke Plunkett at 9:30 PM on January 6, 2009

Masatomo Ueda likes Patapon. A lot more than you or I like Patapon. He likes it so much he's not only got himself a Patapon tattoo, but made himself Patapon prey in the process.


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art

Tart Up Your PS3 With This Gunstar Heroes Theme

Posted by Luke Plunkett at 8:30 PM on January 6, 2009

Been looking for months now, but I just haven't found a PS3 theme that beats the original wavy lines one that comes with the console. Well, I hadn't. Have now.


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Erotic Game Makers In Female Manga Form

Posted by Brian Ashcraft at 5:00 PM on January 6, 2009

Manga with saucy female content is nothing new at all. Ditto for erotic games. But a manga about female erotic game makers making shojo erotic games?

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Salman Rushdie Killed Time With Computer Games

Posted by Brian Ashcraft at 3:00 PM on January 6, 2009

After novelist Sir Salman Rushdie published The Satanic Verses, many deemed the book blasphemous. The Ayatollah of Iran issued a decade long fatwa, calling for Rushdie's death. How did he spend that time?


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Holiday Greetings From Penny Arcade, Nintendo, Blizzard and Others

Posted by Brian Crecente at 3:00 AM on January 6, 2009

I was out of town for the two weeks surrounding Christmas so despite my best efforts, I didn't post all of the gaming greeting cards I received over the holidays.


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massively multiplayer

Where Bad Games Go To Die (RIP Tabula Rasa)

Posted by Luke Plunkett at 6:30 PM on January 5, 2009

Upon their death, great men are afforded a sending off befitting of their stature. Pity Tabular Rasa, then, as EB Games in Canada seems more content to roll its lifeless corpse into the nearest ditch.


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You'll Need Teamwork To Finish This Left 4 Dead Tank

Posted by Luke Plunkett at 5:30 PM on January 2, 2009

Left 4 Dead is scary. Paper? Not so scary. But paper folded to appear as though the paper takes the form of Left 4 Dead's scariest bad guy, THE TANK? OK. That's...scary enough.

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