Here’s a tip to ease your suffering: Buy Street Fighter IV. Period. Exclamation mark. (Tilde?)
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Barack Ain’t Got Shit On Michael Wilson
I’m as psyched as the rest of Portland’s stereotypically liberal twentysomethings that Barack Obama is our president, but unless he starts stomping down Pennsylvania Avenue in a giant robot sometime soon, I’m voting Wilson/Metal Wolf 2012. (Note: Sadly, Metal Wolf Chaos never saw official release in America, despite being a relative success for the Xbox […]
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Watchmen: The Movie: The Game Coming In March
Watchmen: The End is Nigh ‘Debut’ Correction: As was pointed out in the comments, Watchmen: The End is Nigh is partially based on a pen-and-paper roleplaying game partially created by Watchmen writer Alan Moore. I’m really fond of that Robert Smith thing down at the bottom there, so I’m sticking with that as my official […]
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Japan Drinks Your Happiness, Etc, Etc
In the spirit of the most romantic of all man-made holidays I took to the ‘net this morning to find something adorable and sweet to share with all of you and maybe the cute girl you fancy. Ten minutes later, I find this: The weird bit? This image isn’t sexual at all. I’m not going […]
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Snoop Joins Rock Band
As if adding country tracks to the Rock Band Music Store wasn’t enough to piss off the game’s legions of narrow minded teenage fans, MTV Games has unveiled a plan to add tracks from Snoop Dogg’s vast catalogue to Rock Band in the near future. Before the kiddies’ spittle-flecked rage can fully be unleashed on […]
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What’s Your Anti-Warcraft?
World of Warcraft is a huge success. So much so, that the game has become synonymous with the massively multiplayer online game genre in the same way that Kleenex has become synonymous with the bits of paper you use to soak up any blood from those 3AM nose bleeds your last girlfriend was prone to. […]
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Blood Bowl: So Topical It Hurts
Assuming we have one reader in Pittsburgh, congratulations! Your crew of heavily-muscled, phenomenally wealthy athletes managed to put the ball in the end-zone more than Arizona’s bird-themed posse. Now go flip over cars and get maced as your forefathers once did! And how am I supposed to tie this into my contractually obligated gaming-themed scribblings? […]
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… And This Is How You Repay Me?!
A few nights ago I was attending a gallery opening sitting in a bar instant messaging a friend crying softly to myself and the topic of conversation turned to gaming publishers who no longer seemed to be in league with the devil. While it was roundly agreed that Activision took up His Unholy Mantle somewhere […]
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Batman: Arkham Asylum Might Not Suck
Batman games have traditionally been … well, fucking terrible. When the best pixelated representative of a property is best known for being insanely difficult (despite being based on a cartoon aimed at children) you know it’s time to fire whoever plans these things and hand their salary to the people who fool kids into believing […]
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Bad News, Good News, and More Bad News
This week has been a real fucking mess in the Rose City hasn’t it? First we find out that Mayor Sam “That Depends On What Your Definition Of Is Is” Adams pulled a Lewinsky with an underage dude and didn’t even have the common ribaldry to use impromptu, tobacco-themed “props.” Then, only yesterday, some asshole […]
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Super Bowl XLIII: Steelers Beat Cardinals 28-24 …
… in Electronic Arts’ Madden ’09 simulation of the Big Game! The publisher just revealed the results of its annual tradition and if you’re a betting man willing to risk your children’s inheritance on the whims of an electronic oracle, I feel comfortable telling you that Roethlisberger and friends trump Kurt Warner’s posse. What’s that? […]
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Skate 2: A World of Pain in Video
Update: Picture added via Skate 2’s photo capture ability. Notice the officially branded Skate or Die tank top. Is it ironic to wear a gaming shirt within a videogame? My review of Skate 2 just went up in the Merc and while it goes on at length comparing the game to a robotic dinosaur, I […]