Hyper short review: The Lost and Damned — the first, Xbox 360-exclusive expansion for Grand Theft Auto IV — is scary violent, tells a subtle, gripping story, and features more cock than Oscar Wilde on a laudanum bender. (Skip ahead to the 4:00 mark of the above clip for today’s reminder that my gender looks […]
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BUT WHERE ARE THE SPACE ELEVATORS?!
Blink and you’ll miss it, but Kotaku has our first halfway-decent look at Mass Effect 2. The first Mass Effect quickly became one of my favorite games; to say I’m looking forward to the sequel would be an understatement roughly equal to… to… ugh. It’s Friday, at like 5:30, and I’m running on about three […]
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Man, Those Brits Do Sexism Right
Despite the inroads made by questionably motivated corporate entities and righteous chicks who abhor stereotypes, gaming is a male-centric pastime. Doubly so in Britain where all the women are too busy ironing and making delicious tea to bother with the complexities of things like Halo or Algebra. Whoa, whoa, whoa! Put down that burning bra […]
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Whitest Kids U’Know Does Call of Duty
I’d warn you against the not safe for work swears in this clip from the Whitest Kids U’Know, but fuck dude, you’re reading Blogtown in the middle of the day — Either your job is awesome, or you’re living off foodstamps and PBR.
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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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The Best Movie Tie-In Games That Never Were.
Thanks to restrictive licensing contracts, impossible deadlines, and general, go-fuck-yourself-style apathy from developers, publishers, and consumers alike, movie tie-in videogames usually end up with graphics that look like they were optimized for an abacus and controls that only work if you cram your Wiimote into the jaws of someone having a grand mal seizure. They […]
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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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Late to the Party.
Considering how many hours of my life have been sucked into my television via videogames, it feels kinda weird to admit I’ve never owned a PlayStation 2. Played them, yeah. Wanted one, sure. But I was a starving college student when the last generation of consoles hit, and because of Halo and Oddworld I picked […]