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Homebrew WADs and mods
Filed under: Homebrew With the advent of DOOM being ported to the PSP, homebrew hackers have been busy at work tricking out mods for the popular shooter. One such gamer at DCEmu has managed to fix up...
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The Subway story
Filed under: Culture, PC, First Person ShootersThe Counter-Strike-based ad campaign for Subway went awry as soon as Valve appeared on the scene, and it was revealed that the campaign had gone ahead...
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Girls and hardcore gaming meet in the Home of Chrome
Filed under: PC, First Person Shooters, Competitive GamingBilled as the first sports academy for competitive gaming, the Home of Chrome in Sweden is a venture set up by VIA to showcase the successful...
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For sale: oil paintings inspired by games
Filed under: CultureJeremiah Palacek is a painter living in Prague in the Czech Republic. Over the last year he's created 154 paintings, many of which are inspired by, as he calls it "imagery from...
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Street Fighter comes indoors and picks up some chalk
Filed under: Culture, ActionNeed I say more? A couple of college kids decided to apply their Street Fighter obsessed brains to an available blackboard. It's the kind of thing you look at and say to...
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Pizza Hut to sponsor cyberathletes
Filed under: PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, Online, Competitive Gaming, BusinessPizza Hut recently announced they will become the first fast food franchise to sponsor the Cyberathlete Professional League...
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Valve's Counter-Strike tweaks to level pistol prices [update 1]
Filed under: PC, First Person Shooters, Online, Competitive Gaming, BusinessCounter Strike: Source's dynamic pricing system has raised the Desert Eagle's cost to a point that Valve has admitted to be...
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Never mind the art, here's a Shadowrun preview
Filed under: PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters, OnlineAs the first game under the Windows Live brand to bring both PC and Xbox 360 gamers together, Shadowrun isn't the most casual-friendly...
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CGS boasts $5 mil payroll, Playboy Mansion pro-gamer draft
Filed under: Culture, PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, Driving, Fighting, First Person Shooters, Sports, Competitive Gaming, BusinessHosting its inaugural player draft far from the storied sanctum of The...
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Valve not charging for downloadable content
Filed under: PC, First Person Shooters, Online, BusinessDespite the rise of micro-transactions and pay-per-download content in the PC and console worlds, Valve recently announce it has no intention of...
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Brazil ban on Counter-Strike, EverQuest goes into effect
Filed under: Culture, PC, First Person Shooters, Online, RPGs, MMO, Politics A ban on the sale of Counter-Strike and EverQuest in Brazil has gone into effect. According to AFP, the ban was ordered by...
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Realtime Worlds hopes APB will have up to 10-year lifespan
We've all been curious about how long the Cops & Robbers gameplay presented in Realtime Worlds' APB would be capable of capturing our fleeting, razor-thin attention span. Realtime creative...
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Army of Two: The 40th Day multiplayer inspired by Counter-Strike, Killzone 2
While Army of Two's focus has always been cooperative gameplay, EA Montreal's Eric Chartrand is responsible for designing the competitive multiplayer aspects of The 40th Day. In an interview with with...
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Xbox Live service for Xbox 1 games to be discontinued on Apr. 15
[Image: Bungie] Microsoft is pulling the plug on the Xbox Live services that still cater to the original Xbox. As of April 15th, all Xbox 1 games -- including those playable on Xbox 360 or via the...
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Valve confirms Mac support for Steam and Source Engine
In today's completely shocking and unexpected bit of news, Valve has announced Mac support for its Steam digital distribution platform and Source -- the engine that powers Half-Life 2, amongst others....
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German artist wants you to roll around in de_dust
When the Germans do something, they do it right -- or, at least big. German artist Aram Bartholl has created a slew of projects inspired by gaming and the Internet, but his largest is a 1:1 scale...
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive coming to XBLA, PSN and Steam early 2012...
Update: Looks like we didn't have to wait too long at all for confirmation of the project: Valve and Seattle-based developer Hidden Path Entertainment just distributed a press release announcing...
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Final Steam Sale of 2011 predicts zombie apocalypse, crime in 2012
The Steam Holiday Sale doesn't stop for anyone or anything -- not the end of a year, an era or the world -- and today, New Year's Eve 2011, is no different. The 13th day of the Steam Holiday Sale...
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Nexon, Valve announce Counter-Strike Online 2 for Asian territories
South Korean developer Nexon this week announced Counter-Strike Online 2, a sequel to its successful made-for-Asian-gaming-cafes port of the original Counter-Strike. Developed under license from...
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Free-to-play Arctic Combat 'borrows' one of Counter-Strike's maps
The new Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has a few old Counter-Strike maps included, and that's just fine, given that it's all in the same franchise. But Webzen's free-to-play shooter Arctic Combat...
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