Surprise, surprise: The new Uncharted is totally badass.
Earnest "Nex" Cavalli
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Review: Cave Story 3D
A quick history lesson before we get into this. In 2004 an amateur Japanese game designer named Daisuke Amaya (aka “Pixel”) released a free PC game called Cave Story. Over the next six years, the game became an underground hit, both for its classic, Metroid-inspired gameplay, and for its adorable pixel art aesthetic. In 2010 […]
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Grand Theft Auto V: The Trailer
Another Grand Theft Auto was inevitable after GTAIV made literally billions of dollars, and yet somehow this debut trailer for GTAV snuck up on me. The trailer doesn’t offer much in the way of gameplay details — I’m going to guess that 90% of it is culled from in-game cutscenes — but it does highlight […]
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Bissell On Batman (And The Joys Of Arkham City)
WB Interactive That leg thing always looks weird to me. A quick bit of background, before I get to discussing the cool bits. Portland State professor Tom Bissell is also a geek culture journalist. Not in the same way that your 13-year-old cousin is a “journalist” because he started a blog called “Boobtaku” and once […]
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Friday: Ground Kontrol’s “Halloween Extravaganza”
Ground Kontrol What better way to celebrate Halloween than as the ancient pagan tribes did? With alcohol, nachos and Virtua Cop 2! This Friday, Ground Kontrol, Portland’s favorite purveyor of all things intoxicant and nostalgically pixelated, is hosting “Giga-Fright.” As usual the full press release is beyond the jump, but in short Giga-Fright is a […]
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Blackwater: The Cynical Profiteering Videogame
AP Morality aside, those sunglasses totally blow. A deserted, dimly lit hallway. Somewhere in northern Virginia. A reporter approaches a soldier, the former wearing jeans and a t-shirt, and the latter wearing cutting edge warfighting technofetishist gadgetry. The soldier’s shirt cost twice as much as the reporter’s car. “Hey Blackwater! You just helped destabilize a […]
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Wanna See My Lizard?
(Okay, technically it’s Bethesda’s lizard, but I won’t let that get in the way of a childish dick joke.) BOOM! New live-action trailer for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Skyrim hits retail on November 11.
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Dark Souls: The Mercury Review Now Exists
Bandai Namco See that dragon? Your tears nourish him. It’s like the headline says, the Mercury’s review of Dark Souls is now a thing. A thing you can see here or at your local anachronistic newsboy. Go see that thing. Those of you who have played the game (or its spiritual predecessor Demon’s Souls), won’t […]
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Review: Sideway: New York
SOE When I was a kid, platformers were the de rigueur gaming genre. Mario, Sonic, and dozens of copycat characters were what people imagined when they heard the word “gaming.” At some point in the mid-90s however, the platformer fell out of fashion. While most will point to the emerging popularity of the first-person shooter […]
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Catwoman Is A Bitch?
WB Interactive Honestly, I’d say this is more “catty” than anything else. Two points before I explain the current situation: One: The newly released Batman: Arkham City is awesome. Like, Game of the Year awesome. Two: When playing as Catwoman, it is quite common to hear the game’s enemies (Gotham City’s criminal element) refer to […]
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Review: Dead Rising 2: Off The Record
Capcom He’s covered wars, y’know. Full disclosure: I’m a total Dead Rising fanboy. Smashing zombie skulls and stabbing psychotic survivors is one of my greatest joys in life, and as such I’m almost entirely convinced that Capcom birthed this series to appeal directly to me. Thus, I’m a bit torn on Dead Rising 2: Off […]