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If creasing paper seems like a dull pastime, then you obviously haven’t been exposed to the wondrous world of papercraft.

These artists take colored paper or printed patterns, add a few well-placed folds and creases and turn them into 3D masterpieces.

Case in point is Matthew Hawkin’s Pac-Man papercraft sculpture.

As with anything these days, there are fans in abundance and many of them gather at Paperkraft.net to share designs, several of which involve classic and modern video game characters.

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Assuming you have 3 bills to drop, that is.

Signed by artist-creator Matthew Hawkins, this all-paper Pac-Man 3D creation features the infamous yellow munching head with arms and legs, swallowing ghost Pinky and grabbing an unhappy blue-ish Inky.

It measures 14 in. wide and 10 in. tall and is available for purchase through RivetArt for $300.

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At first glance it is an oversized iPod Touch complete with a screen for the primary surface area (although a wider-than-iPhone border), a Home button, a SD card slot along the side, a USB port and a bottom power-dock slot.

As a game system, the iPad certainly has the screen advantage. It will be the largest screen of any handheld game device, if we can even call it a handheld device and not a netbook or tablet (or netablet?).

It will also have benefit of a massive library of games although a decent percentage will need to be reworked for the iPad’s size. The accelerometer makes it great for driving and balance games but the size, even light and thin, is going to be too wide, tall and slippery for swinging moves easily accomplished with the iPhone and iPod Touch.

The battery life is not very impressive and may prove a nasty sticking point for gamers. Not being able to run Flash games is also an issue Apple will eventually need to address. The biggest sticking point will be, of course, the price. Five hundred dollars is a bit much for a console let alone a handheld. Of course, with the unexpected early adoption of previous Apple i-creations, this will likely be in a lot of hands and games will certainly sell well.

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Labeled as a “Midweek Madeness” sale, steam is offering Psychonauts for only $2 through this Thursday (January 28, 2010).

The platformer currently retails for $9.99 and was originally released in 2005 by Majesco for PC (windows), Xbox and Playstation 2.

Psychonauts stars Raz, a young psychic who leaves the circus to sneak into a summer training camp for future Psychonauts. As expected, nothing is as it seems and Raz has to quickly acquire and perfect a few psychic skills to defeat baddies and solve puzzles. Some of his learned abilities include telekinesis, levitation, invisibility, pyrokinesis, clairvoyance, confusion, shield and blast.

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Gamer isn’t quite what you’d expect from the title. Sure, it has a fair share of gaming cliches but it tempers them with just the right mix of seriousness and humor and then wraps it all in an interestingly gritty cinematic style.

Don’t be mistaken. Little about this movie is subtle.

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Check out the gallery: Gamer: The Movie photos and stills

We have it from a very reliable, confidential source that Telltale Games may be planning to release its entire lineup of games to Macintosh very soon, possibly next month (February 2010).

The timing is perfect to coincide with the upcoming MacWord 2010, taking place February 9 through 13, 2010, at the Moscone Center in in San Francisco, CA (USA). An official announcement likely won’t be made until then. Of course, sister site Appletell will be at MacWorld 2010 to find out whether or not this rumor is true (and make certain we’re kept up on all the other gaming announcements).

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Microsoft held its keynote address yesterday (January 6, 2010) during CES 2010, during which there were several notable game-related announcements.

The keynote starred Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO, and included a power problem and a few handoffs to other execs (esp. Robbie Bach). It featured a tree-pronged approach TV, “cloud” and NUI (natural user interface) technology.

Here’s a bullet-point list of all the gaming announcements Microsoft had to offer:..

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There were plenty of game-related goodies peppered throughout Sony’s CES 2010 press conference this week (January 6, 2010).

Here’s a quick look at the the gaming goodness we can squeeze out of the conference…

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Here’s a big, fat bullet-point list of announced (and some unannounced) company press conferences and keynotes taking place at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (aka CES 2010). We’ll be Live Blogging some of these conferences and covering the crud out of everything we can, so watch the site for constant updates all week.

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Game accessories maker, dreamGear, has announced that it plans to release “a line of accessories for the Nintendo DSi portable gaming system” (according to the company’s press release) based on Sesame Workshop.

The specific DSI products will be announced during the International CES 2010 later this week (January 7 through 10, 2010). The rest of the release describes other accessories based on its i.Sound line including character earbuds, earphones and speakers for iPod, iPhone and other MP3 players.

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