Review copies of Electronic ArtssKingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning are starting to reach critics, who have made a surprising collective discovery: an insert containing a code to download a House of Valor content pack featuring seven additional single player quests. EA has confirmed to Ars Technica that this downloadable content will be included free with all [...]
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Kingdoms of Amalur’s "Online Pass" continues a slippery slope for used games
February 12th, 2012
Q&A: How global conflict shows up in computer games
February 10th, 2012
Earlier this month, an Iranian court handed a death sentence to a former US Marine of Iranian descent who was convicted of spying for the Central Intelligence Agency. One strange twist in the case was that the defendant allegedly confessed to using video games to manipulate public opinion. Iranian state television broadcast a purported confession [...]
X Games kick off with tribute to fallen champ Sarah Burke
February 10th, 2012
Just three weeks ago, Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke was preparing to defend her 2011 Winter X Games ski superpipe gold medal. On Thursday, athletes kicked off the 2012 event without her, memorializing the fallen skier with stickers, ribbons and a torchlit tribute. Dozens of athletes with torches gathered on the top of a darkened [...]
Patriots, Giants head into Super Bowl at peak of their games
February 5th, 2012
Super Bowl XLVI: Its twin peaks. When they take the field at Lucas Oil Stadium on Feb. 5, the New York Giants and the New England Patriots will do so playing their best football of the season. Both teams are currently operating at peak efficiency. Rewind the 2011 NFL season for a moment When they [...]
Canada, US qualify for London Games
February 2nd, 2012
VANCOUVER: The United States and Canada reached the Olympics for the second consecutive time by posting semifinal wins at the CONCACAF womens Olympic soccer tournament in a doubleheader on Friday. The two-time defending gold medalists Americans overcame a determined Costa Rica team 3-0 while the Canadians also booked a spot at the London Summer Games [...]
First triple corks landed in WX Big Air
February 2nd, 2012
ASPEN, Colo. — The Snowboard Big Air finals Friday at Winter X Games 2012 quickly turned into a triple cork party under the lights at Buttermilk with Canadian rider Mark McMorris claiming his first Winter X gold thanks to a massive backside triple cork mute 1440. McMorris scored 49 out of a possible 50 points [...]
Canuck earns X-Games gold medal after making slopestyle ski history
February 2nd, 2012
Canadian Kaya Turski landed the first ever switch 1080 in womens ski slopestyle competition Thursday to win her third straight gold medal in the event at the Winter X-Games in Aspen, Colo. The Montreal native scored 95.00 on her final run to beat American Devin Logan (92.33) and Australian Anna Segal (90.00) at the winter [...]
Most repetitive games
February 1st, 2012
Change text size for the story Print this story Report an error In the classic 1993 comedy Groundhog Day, Bill Murrays character is forced to live the same day over and over again in the small town of Punxsutawney, Penn., until he can figure out how to become a better man and win the heart [...]
Shares that will be winners at the summer Games
February 1st, 2012
In exactly five months time, to the day, the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony will herald the start of the sporting worlds greatest event. As soon as the games, current cost £10bn and counting, were awarded to London in 2005, experts heralded the huge investment opportunities it would present, citing areas such as infrastructure, tourism [...]
Stickman games that shine on iOS
January 31st, 2012
Sometimes the bare essentials are all it takes to make a great video game. In this collection, our hero is the stickman. Everyone knows that in todays hottest games (for any platform), high-quality graphics are at a premium. Whether its a first-person shooter, an MMORPG, or even a console golf game, realism and fancy graphics [...]