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Terrifying Clown Army Invades New York Best Buy
3:20AM Mike Fahey | If you thought the line for Modern Warfare 2 was scary, check out the crowd waiting outside of a New York City Best Buy for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus game. More »
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Plants Vs. Zombies In The Streets Of New York
1:40AM Mike Fahey | Downloadable defence game sensation Plants vs. Zombies invades the nation’s largest Halloween celebration, as hordes of zombies and their leafy foes take to the streets in New York City’s 36th Annual Village Halloween Parade. More »
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Nintendo World Store Hosts Punch-Out!! Challenge
12:30AM Mike Fahey | Punch-Out!! fans in New York City can visit the Nintendo World Store on May 16th for a chance to take part in the Punch-Out!! Challenge and pick up an early copy of the game. More »
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Marcus Fenix Has The Biggest Scowl In NYC
5:00AM Luke Plunkett | Bit of Gears 2 marketing going down (or up) in New York City this weekend. Namely, some building-sized Gears of War 2 murals. Yup. Murals. Not posters, not prints, they’re painted. There are three in total. One on Broome & Crosby, one on the corner of Spring Crosby and the third – and largest, at 76 feet – on Delancey and Allen. So cheer up, Marcus! If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. More »
The History Of NYC (In Games)
4:30PM Luke Plunkett | New York City’s iconic. So it’s natural that it features in a ton of games. But how many, and for how long? I have no idea. I’m no historian. The Bowery Boys (a NYC history site) fancy they are, though, and have compiled this excellent list of some of the more notable games set in the great city, from the obvious (GTA IV, True Crime: NYC) to the…less obvious (the original Mario Bros.). There are stops at Punch Out and the TMNT arcade game along the way, but I was a little (just a little) upset to see they left off probably the grandest tribute to the Big Apple of them all: the Commodore 64 version of Ghostbusters. The history of New York City in video games [The Bowery Boys, via GamePolitics] More »
