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I Pity The Childhood With No 8-Bit A-Team

11:30AM Owen Good | Hot Blooded Gaming put together the following video, solely as an an excuse to create an 8-Bit A-Team theme (which is itself awesome.) The gameplay’s a little formulaic, but have you tried Next-Gen A-Team, for Grand Theft Auto IV? More »
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Video Games And Balloons: Because Everyone’s Talking About It

12:00PM Owen Good | The saga of Colorado’s Balloon Boy had me and Crecente nostalgic for our days of four-alarm all-hands coverage at the Rocky (which only happened every week). So I’ve localised today’s report to include the video game angle to balloons. More »
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Nananana Nananana—ARKHAM!!!!

9:00AM Owen Good | Danny Elfman can piss off. I roll with Neal Hefti’s theme from the 1960 TV show, and here someone’s set it to Arkham Asylum gameplay in an attempt to mimic the show’s opening. More »
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We Didn’t Have Achievements Back In The Day

10:00AM Owen Good | But if we did, posits Gamespy’s Brian Altano – in this nostalgic and disarmingly sweet take on growing up with games – they might have looked a little like these. More »
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Mario Teaches Typing Warcraft

10:30AM Owen Good | Since I just got promoted, I can finally reveal that I lack any experience with one rather common game. I haven’t played a minute of Warcraft – except for the original RTS. On a Mac. More »
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I Breathe Fire And I VOTE

4:00AM Owen Good | Bowser recently went into town to speak his mind about the dangers of unchecked power in the executive branch. Funny that a monarch would feel that way, but it’s a free country, brah. More pics on the jump. More »

Hey, You Got Your Mega Man in my Dutch Garden

10:00AM Owen Good | Capcom might want to get on the phone with Unilever, owner of the Knorr brand. Because, really, that’s Mega Man, albeit in green, encouraging Dutch children to eat more fruits and vegetables (I think.) More »