Games
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This spring, hundreds of long-buried Atari cartridges were excavated from a landfill. Here’s the full list of what was found and what’s next for these plastic pieces of geek history. read more Everything found in the Atari desert dig and where it’s headed – CNET.
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Release dates have been announced for the next incarnation of Dungeons & Dragons Simply titled Dungeons & Dragons. Note that is was previously referred to as Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, D&D Next and D&D Please-Don’t-Let-This-Be-The-Debacle-That-Was-4th. read more BARKING ALIEN: The Unbearable Lightness of Not Being A D&D Fan.
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Google has created a playable digital Rubik’s Cube to mark the 40th anniversary of Ernő Rubik’s creation.Users on the homepage for the search engine are presented with a clickable cube and can swipe or click outside of the cube to rotate it or click or swipe inside the cube to twist it. read more Google…
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This week a new Alien: Isolation trailer has been released, providing Aliens fans patiently waiting for the new Alien: Isolation game to arrive a first look at the leading characters in the game, many of which are sure to meet a gruesome death. via New Alien: Isolation Trailer Introduces Games Lead Characters video.
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Look out Blizzard. NCSoft and Carbine Studios are looking to rain on your World of Warcraft parade with the open beta launch of Wildstar, an upcoming action-adventure sci-fi MMOG. The game doesn’t officially open its doors for business until June 3, giving potential customers ten days to get acquainted with the new landscape and lore.…
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Yesterday, roleplaying game publisher Wizards of the Coast announced the development of a new edition of D&D. This revision comes less than four years after the release of the last edition of the stalwart RPG. For years, D&D players have drawn battle lines over which edition of the game they prefer, and Wizards is now…
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There are certain things I simply don’t question. I don’t ask my wife why it’s so important that I put the toilet seat down. I don’t question why you shouldn’t eat silica gel although I really, really want to. And I don’t question the popularity of zombies. The reasons that I don’t question these things…
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A documentary film production company has found buried in a New Mexico landfill hundreds of the Atari E.T. The Extraterrestrial game cartridges that some call the worst video game ever made.Film director Zak Penn showed one E.T. cartridge retrieved from the dumpsite and says there are hundreds more mixed in the mounds of trash and…
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America has seen plenty of cities rapidly grow and fade. From the boom towns of the Gold Rush to Detroit’s rise and fall alongside the country’s auto industry, the narrative is the same: People are drawn where they think they can make their fortune. When the money and jobs dry up, some stay out of…
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The search for the Holy Grail of video games is due to begin this weekend in what is being billed as “the first archaeological expedition in the gaming era”. Organisers are counting on the fact that American deserts are still one of the best place to find aliens as they prepare to excavate a landfill…