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Finding the perfect Christmas gifts for your friends and family is a real challenge. And as you struggle to find things they might like, don’t forget they’re trying to do the same for you. So when you open that bright pink sweater, or the coffee maker they already got you last year, just smile politely and remember to hold onto that gift receipt. More »

My friend Russ designs grills for Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet, where the starting price is around $14,000 $10,000. He just sent me this video, a glimpse at their manufacturing process. Man, these are sweet pieces of kit—all hand-made in an adorable town in Michigan, able to burn wood, gas, or charcoal. *drool* More »

Sometimes people yell at their TVs. Sometimes the TV yells at you.

That’s especially true if you watch a lot of CNBC. As the business news network struggled to keep ratings afloat this year, its personalities certainly did their best to keep people watching — absolutely losing it at the drop of, well, basically anything.

Didn’t continuously watch CNBC this year? We chronicled some of the network’s most infamous moments for you, including a rather disastrous interview with The New York Times’ Paul Krugman. Check it out below.

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Two weeks ago, we heard about EA supporting Xbox 360′s Kinect in Dead Space 3 and immediately became excited at the prospect of being able to yell at our co-op partner nonstop throughout the game. Not only will we be able to yell out orders to our co-op buddy, but it looks as though the game will recognize certain words yelled at certain moments in the game, specifically curse words.

During an interview with CVG, Dead Space 3 producer Steve Papoutsis revealed a number of hidden voice commands can be triggered through swearing the right word at the right time.

“…there are commands where you might be in a certain situation and you might yell a specific expletive and it might behave in a way that you want it to.”

What those commands are, when they need to be yelled to trigger something and their results are, of course, unknown at this time. When Dead Space 3 is released on February 5th, we’ll be sure to curse our lungs out at every moment we can, even while we’re browsing our inventory. You never know what a good F-bomb could bring up in there.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition Considered For PS3 Release, Skyrim Dragonborn DLC For PS3 Coming Early 2013,

The Tomb Raider franchise will be getting a highly anticipated reboot next year, but when this new game arrives, it will be sporting some features that series veterans will find unfamiliar. After a UK listing for the game set off rumors about a Tomb Raider multiplayer mode, Crystal Dynamics today confirmed it. For better or worse, the next Tomb Raider title will indeed have multiplayer.

Crystal Dynamics global brand director Karl Stewart announced the mode on Twitter earlier today, saying that details can be found in the latest issue of Official Xbox Magazine. Since subscribers won’t be getting the magazine until tomorrow and it’ll be January 8 by the time the magazine makes it to news stands, details are still pretty slim. OXM’s teaser for the issue doesn’t give anything away either, so it looks like we’ll be stuck waiting for a little bit.

This is a move that’s bound to cause some controversy among Tomb Raider fans and gamers in general. There are some gamers who can’t get enough multiplayer and others who have no problem pushing back against perceived “tacked on” multiplayer modes. Tomb Raider has largely been a single player experience, so the introduction of a multiplayer mode may not sit well with some longtime fans.

Then again, maybe Crystal Dynamics will knock it out of the park and deliver a multiplayer mode worth playing over and over. BioWare did that with the multiplayer in Mass Effect 3, which was something that surprised everyone, so it has been done before. We’ll just have to see what kind of details the next issue of Official Xbox Magazine holds before we begin jumping to conclusions. Tomb Raider will be launching for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 on March 5, 2013.

Multiplayer mode confirmed for Tomb Raider reboot is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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