I’m diggin’ on Borderlands, and the fact that I won’t have to wait very long for a sequel makes me happy in the guts. One of the perks of procrastinating and dragging feet when it comes to playing a game. Reduction of sequel-wait-misery-time. This teaser is fun, and allegedly completely in-game.

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Parents back in 1991 were friggin’ cheesed off, man. They had just bought Johnny Snotnose his first Nintendo Entertainment System. And now here comes a new  console that all the kids will want. Well guess what Mr. and Mrs. Smith, that’s what your dumb asses get for being late adopters!

You know how I got my SNES? I cried at Child World when my grandma took me there right near launch. Oh, I’m a bitch? Yeah well I was the first kid in my grade playing Super Mario World. So fuck you.

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I’ve never logged into Second Life. I’d like to, just to see what’s going on. At this point though, it feels like coming into a millennia-long debate in the middle of it. Regardless of my interaction in this other world, it is doing quite fine. To the tune of $100 million a year.

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There’s nothing that’s going to get me to subscribe to Call of Duty: Elite. Right? Well maybe if signing up gets you the Call of Duty DLC deluge for a reduced price. Or. Or. Or if Ridley Scott released something so asshole-quiveringly dope through the service that my fanboy soul needs it. This is somehow, oddly, a distinct possibility now that Scott has signed-up to provide the service with new content.

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First off,  I love that there’s a national jitterbug championship. Fantastic. Secondly, I love swingers  Morgan Day and Emily Wigger. They danced to what  Michael McWherton accurately calls “chippy Mario tunes”. It’s a total dork lovefest, complete with level clear music and actual props.

Dig it.

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Man, I feel like I’m a bit of an irresponsible dude with the amount of caffeine I crush. It’s a general move, designed to keep the demons away, the voices quaint. I have nothing on this kid, who decided that snorting Ritalin would be the most proper way to continue his gaming marathon. Not surprised it didn’t end particularly well.

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Ken Levine is one of the visionaries working in video games right now. Say what you want about the ideologies that propel these visions, the dude has got them. So when he talks, I pay attention. PlayStation’s blog got the good sir to open up about BioShock: Infinite, fucking with expectations, the PS Move and more.

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We’ve had video games changed to reflect post-season roster moves. Even in-season roster moves. This is the first time that a video game has been altered to reflect an athlete’s new hairline.

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EVO 2011 was what, a couple of weekends ago? During it,  Richard Li strapped a camera to his face and recorded the entire thing. He’s compiled all that swag into a video, and it’s pretty enjoyable. The excitement in the room is palpable, countless gamers watching two people go at it in a method of combat known to geeks through and through. When they lose their shit because of a parry or super that was gorgeous, I feel it down my spine. Very cool.

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There was rioting over the weekend in London and while I didn’t admit it out loud, I had a fleeting idea I knew what was the cause of it. Fluoride in the drinking water, and a switch flipped by the Illuminati to destabilize the area so the Shadow Government could swoop in. In addition, a London newspaper had an equally insipid idea what caused it. GTA.

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