Unlike the world of music, there really isn’t much “cred” to the idea of “indie cred” in gaming. Natalie Portman will never tell Zach Braff that everyday shooter will change his life, Dan Paladin will never date Zooey Deschanel, and even at his downtrodden scruffiest, Bill Murray will never do anything accompanied by tunes from […]
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Grudge Match: Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 Versus The King of Fighters ’98
As I type these words, it’s Wednesday, July 29. Roughly 10:40PM. The median air temperature outside my house is straddling the nigh-incomprehensible gulf between “plasma-form helium” and “your mom.” Unlike you though, I’m incredibly wealthy and have sequestered a family of Eskimos to gently waft their icy, blubber-flecked breath onto the small of my neck. […]
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Portal Of Fire? Still Burning? Coulton’s Inferno?
Not content with the inherent memetic potential of Jonathan Coulton’s endlessly repeated Portal theme “Still Alive,” or the inherent fun of fire, a team of geeks from MIT have combined the two Internet mainstays. That, easily-impressed Blogtown readers, is a Ruben’s Tube (“standing wave flame tube” if you’re nasty). Similar in effect to the graphical […]
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The Horrors of ‘Duke Nukem’s Disease’
Sunday. The laziest day of the week. The blogger. The laziest whatever-analogue-might-properly-complete-this-gag. Combine the two and you get a recycled IGN mocumentary on the crippling effects of Moto-Neural Demyelination, lifted from BoingBoing and repurposed as original content. And they say we don’t earn our minimum wage.
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Mini-Reviews: Fight Night Round 4, Prototype
Fight Night Round 4 — $60 — Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 If the Madden football games are EA’s bread and butter, Fight Night is the company’s horrifically contused lobster. For starters, FNR4 is a simply gorgeous game. It almost feels obscene that a game whose entire aesthetic output is devoted to the realistic depiction of […]
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Harry Potter And The Lucrative Moneygrab (And The Overly Long Review) (And Headline)
There are few constants in the world. Death and taxes are the two constantly bandied about by those glibly trying to assign some sort of meaning to the insignificant minutiae of their lives, but the one everyone forgets is the inescapable reality of human greed. Money is endlessly motivating to the people of our modern […]
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Tyson vs. Snoop … WHO YA GOT?!?
*cue the voice of Michael Buffer* In the red corner … standing six feet, three and one half inches tall … and weighing in at one hundred, seventy five pounds … The Ess-En-Double-Oh-Pee Dee-Oh-Double-Geeeeeeeeeeeeee!! *Crazed applause from the crowd, sound of blunts being smoked and the suffix “izzle” being inappropriately added to nouns, verbs and […]
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Rumor: Previously Blacko, Wacko Jacko Coming Backo
With even the music industry turning its collective back — o? Sorry, force of habit. — on the deposed King of Pop, Michael Jackson is rumored to be taking another stab at the world of videogames. MJJ Productions, the film creation arm of His Royal Popness’ crumbling empire, is at work on a mysterious game […]
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“Nice Shootin’, Tex!” (A Review of Ghostbusters: The Videogame.)
Has it seriously been like two and a half years since the idea of a new Ghostbusters videogame started making its way around the internet? It seems like it’s been a lot longer than that, but regardless: The game finally came out last week, and this weekend, I burned through it entirely too quickly. It’s […]
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Penny Arcade Tries Something Different.
If you (A) play videogames and (B) spend any amount of time whatsoever on the internet, you’re likely a fan of Penny Arcade, the excellent, ridiculously popular web comic by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. Penny Arcade usually focuses on gaming-related humor, but for the past few days, they’ve been trying something a bit different. […]
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Project Natal: Microsoft’s Next Big Gimmick Thing
E3 2009 was a surprisingly big deal. Nintendo announced new Metroid and Super Mario Bros. games, Sony showed the world that it still, kinda, sorta cares about the PSP and Microsoft … well, Microsoft gave us this: That’s “Project Natal.” Looks cool right? Yeah, that’s what my roommates said too. What both they and you […]
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Red Faction: Guerrilla And The Zen Of Smashing
When Red Faction: Guerrilla landed in my mailbox two days ago I wasn’t expecting much. The first RF was a competent title built entirely on the selling point that players could blow up everything. The ground, the buildings, stray dogs, everything. Red Faction 2 attempted to recreate that same idea, only with more advanced technology […]