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Archive for June, 2010

Review: Blur

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Some have found it completely outrageous than anyone would attempt to compare Blur to Mario Kart, the problem is that the comparison is so ridiculously easy to make. While Blur is not the rainbows-and-sunshine kart racer that Mario Kart has always been, it is virtually impossible to not see the influences Bizarre Creation took for [...]

5 Ways Sony Captivated E3

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Sony was on a mission this year to not only win over unbelievers, but to reaffirms to the faithful as well as the greater gaming community that they are still a driving force in the industry with the potential to dominate in the year to come. Everything slowly seemed to come together over the course [...]

Thatgamecompany invites you on a new journey

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From the development team behind the breathtaking PSN exclusives, Flow and Flower, comes the next journey in magnificent game design. With their simple pick-up-and-play control style, thatgamecompany, hasn’t stopped believin’ in the power of the the PSN exclusive. Their next game, Journey, will faithfully continue the same artful style of it’s predecessors. However, this time [...]

5 Games That Will Sell You Kinect

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Project Natal, which has since been renamed to Kinect, is Microsoft’s next-generation motion control technology that was unveiled to the world this week at E3. Since then, there have been varying degrees of opinion regarding the overall usefulness, validity or even viability of Microsoft releasing such a piece of hardware. No doubt, there have been [...]

In case you missed it, Project Natal is now Kinect

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Microsoft hosted a Cirque du Soleil show for E3 attendees last night, and the big reveal of the event was the official unveiling of Microsoft’s new controller-less control system for the Xbox 360, Kinect. Known as Project Natal while under development, Kinect uses two cameras to sense exactly what you are doing, so that you [...]

Book Review: Starcraft II: Heaven’s Devils

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Blizzard is notorious amongst the gaming community for the exceptional storytelling behind each and every character, the realities they inhabit and the games that give those worlds life. Heaven’s Devils, penned by William C. Dietz, while not the most superb example of narrative is still notable for the aspects of the overarching Starcraft story that [...]

Review: Snoopy Flying Ace

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Snoopy Flying Ace is the best arcade air combat game since Crimson Skies. And, it may actually be better. Don’t let the Peanuts license scare you off; Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and all of their friends have little to do with the actual game. You may find a tad more enjoyment if you are a Peanuts [...]

Valve announces Team Fortress 2 out for Mac tomorrow

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In a not-so-cryptic blog post, Valve has announced that Team Fortress 2 will be out on Mac tomorrow. Why they’ve departed from their normal Wednesday Mac releases, we don’t know, but with the recent delay of Portal 2 and the chaos of E3 right around the corner, we assume they’ve had a lot on their [...]

Craigslist ad wants to trade you a dragon for a PSP Go

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It’s no secret that the PSP Go hasn’t been doing too well. Sony has even gone so far as to call it an “experiment” as of late. The poor sales and bad reputation of the device aren’t a surprise to any gamers, though — paying an $80 premium (over the PSP 3000) for a device [...]

5 Steam mods worth your hard drive space

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It’s been almost two years since Valve officially launched MODs on their digital distribution and community platform, Steam. Since that launch, we’ve seen a slew of new, massively popular Valve games running on their Source engine (Team Fortress 2, Portal, Left 4 Dead), a massive redesign of the Steam client,  and the global launch of [...]