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Whatever your flavor of old school gaming, whether you were a future-loving RoboCop killer or a skeleton-slaying Golden Axe swinger, there’s a little slice of nostalgia here for you. The guys from BoingBoing have lovingly compiled some of the most memorable death scenes from the games of yore into a video tribute, and they’ve been nice enough to leave out the names of all the games featured. There’s no Pokémon action in there, but still, can you guess ’em all?

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Are you sitting down? We’ve got some pretty shocking news. You may want to strap yourself in and put your helmet on for this one. Duke Nukem Forever is getting delayed. The game’s developers have pushed back the release of the title yet again. On the upside, it’s only a little over a month this time–the previously announced May 3rd date has been pushed back to June 14th in North America.

Can the Xbox Kinect can help surgeons? A number of doctors in Canada thing so.They’ve been using the gesture-based peripheral to access photos, helping guide the surgery.

The doctors needed to access photos without having to touch anything. This allowed them to perform surgery more quickly, without having to stop to wash their hands. This may well be the first time ever that a hospital used a video game console as a guide in surgery.

The doctor has also claimed that he plans to use the Kinect more often in both surgeries, and other areas in the hospital.

Via TG Daily

We all remember when the first Xperia Play commercial creeped us out during the Super Bowl, and now Sony Ericsson continues to bring on the creepy with its latest ads for the phone. The new series feature actress Kristen Schaal, telling us a little bit about the phone with her cartoonish little voice, oh, and some kittens, violence, cussing, and demons thrown in, too.

In the one ad, she starts out saying “If you’re like me, you have eyeballs” and then she goes on to explain her fondness of looking at cute kittens on the phone, before morphing into a warrior to declare her love for defeating ogres and demon lords, and then she goes back to the kittens. 

But perhaps the creepiest ad of the bunch shows Schaal’s description of the phone played backwards, where she becomes possessed, like the girl in the Exorcist, with burning, red eyes and a demonic voice as she tells you that the phone gives you power, intense gaming, violence, and adrenaline. Yep, scary and creepy, check.

And if that doesn’t do it for you, you can always watch Schaal thoroughly enjoy stabbing and shooting herself in another ad. If these ads don’t convince you to buy a Xperia Play, I don’t know what would…

Check out a few of the freakiest Xperia Play ads after the jump.

Even big corporations like Sony can find it hard to escape their reputation. The company reached out to Koushik Dutta, an Android hacker known for being the main developer behind the custom-firmware app ROM Manager and the firmware hack Clockwork Mod, and invited him to interview for a job as a software engineer. But, thanks to Sony’s ongoing legal battle with fellow hacker George Hotz (Geohot), Dutta snubbed the company, saying that he “could not in good conscience work for Sony.” Ouch. Looks like Dutta isn’t too enthusiastic about helping out with the Xperia Play.

Thankfully for him, Dutta doesn’t seem to be exactly hurting for a job. AppBrain, an app store for Android, shows the $5 premium version of his ROM Manager app selling between 50,000 and 250,000 copies.

Sony sued Geohot and other hackers earlier this year for releasing the system’s root key, allowing people to run programs on the device not authorized by the company. The fight between the corporation and the hacker is anything but a typical boring lawsuit, captivating the Twitter-verse and leading to Hotz’s rap debut. Today’s news only goes to prove that this will be a very involved, very public battle for Sony to fight.

[via Geekosystem]