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Support the Game of Your Choice: Steam Greenlight Picks, Round 2

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Project Greenlight continues to give gamers a chance to vote for the titles they want to play.

Valve Bringing Steam Console to Your TV

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Valve Co-Founder Gabe Newell has confirmed that the company is working on hardware intended for the living room.

Valve’s Big Picture Aims to Move Steam Gaming Into the Living Room

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Steam’s new user interface, Big Picture, is designed for gamers looking to simulate the console experience without having to abandon their desktop collection.

Geekiest Halloween Costume Ideas

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Halloween is heading our way, and for some geeks that’s an opportunity to get very creative!

Support the Game of Your Choice: Steam Greenlight Picks, Round 1

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Steam’s Greenlight service will let you choose the next games you’d like to see on Steam.

Star Command Could Support Steam Workshop

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We are now down to the final week of the Kickstarter to port Star Command for the PC and Mac, and with that comes stretch goals! Of particular interest is integration with the new Steam Workshop.  Check out this mockup they put together: This won’t be just community-authored clothing changes for the crew, but missions as well. [...]

Colors! 3D for Nintendo 3DS – Painting in a New Dimension

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Colors! 3D brings remarkably realistic painting tools to your Nintendo 3DS.

Adventures of Google Maps – 8-Bit Directions for April Fools!

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Google’s products are everywhere – and today they’ve announced, with the help of Square-Enix and Nintendo, they’ve developed Google Maps for the Nintendo Entertainment System, with a Game Boy port on the way! Ok, not really… Google is known for their celebratory doodles and crazy antics but in honor of the April Fools 2012 weekend, [...]

Angry Birds Space – Putting the Physics Back in our Favorite Physics Puzzler

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One of the best new elements in Angry Birds Space is the planetoid/gravity physics. You’ll find levels with multiple planets containing their own atmosphere and gravity that completely affect the way you play.

REVIEW: Indie Game Dustforce Cleans Up

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When I first started hearing about Dustforce last year my response was tepid at best. I have since prostrated myself accordingly as this game is almost perfect. That may sound like high praise for something with such an odd premise as acrobatic janitors fighting dust monsters and sweeping levels with a grace and speed unmatched [...]

OnLive for Android Review – High-End Gaming for Any Tablet

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Back in 2009 when I first heard about OnLive, I was skeptical. Most people in the tech world were. Here was this unknown company claiming that they were going to be able to host high-end video games completely in the cloud. It sounded a bit like fantasy and smelled faintly of vaporware but, over the next [...]

A Totally “Drawsome Tablet” Coming to Wii

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Video Game publisher Ubisoft announced their newest Wii peripheral, the “Drawsome Tablet,” for release just in time for the holidays on December 6, 2011. As you might have guessed from the name, this is a drawing tablet that connects to your Wii Remote and allows you to draw and interact with the bundled software; which [...]

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