As a diminutive person who jabs at buttons and keyboards for a living, I can say with the utmost accuracy that dancing isn’t my forte. You’ll probably come to the same conclusion after watching the video of me gyrating to the beat of Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face,” which I’ve foolishly embedded after the break. I’ve placed it there because I want you to see — somewhere in that garbled body dialect — how rapidly the “Oh my god, I can’t be seen doing this” phase is supplanted by an inescapable feeling of fun

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Self-identification through product choice is a mainstay of the skateboarding scene, from t-shirts to shoes to skate decks to the soundtracks on skate videos.

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Stereoscopic 3D visuals can really bring a tear to the eye, especially if your hand-eye coordination is off and you end up jabbing a plastic temple arm into a squishy place.

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We thought we’d reached a point in the year where Uncharted 2 and Assassin’s Creed 2 would stop being nominated for awards; apparently, we were wrong. The Game Audio Network Guild adorned both games with nine nominations in its 8th annual Audio Awards .

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So, Gearbox and 2K may not have the pull to grant Borderlands with a nationwide mega midnight launch, but gosh-darn-it, they’re gonna keep a couple GameStops open late on October 19! For those in the DFW (Dallas Fort Worth, holla!), the developers will be showing up to sign copies (at least “five guys with sharpies”) — and they’ll bring some posters and T-shirts along, too. 2201 Preston Rd Plano, TX 75093-2306 6245 Rufe Snow Dr, Fort Worth, TX 76148-3321 The Plano location will have a “four-player LAN setup available to play starting around 9PM.” A Gearbox representative tells us they’ll “hopefully” have something set up at the Ft. Worth location as well.

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GDC Austin 2009: John Smedley explains how SOE’s brave new MMO world–for kids!–has cracked the massively multiplayer gender barrier. Who Was There: John Smedley, president of Sony Online Entertainment, delivered the opening keynote address of the Austin Game Developers Conference 2009. The keynote address took the form of a postmortem of sorts on Free Realms, the company’s first massively multiplayer online game for younger audiences

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Frozenbyte, the developers behind Trine, have announced that their fantasy platformer will finally , after a long delay , be making an appearance on the PlayStation 3.

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