For the sort of classy game that lets you use your boot to crush monsters’ heads open like rotten cantaloupes, the original Gears of War launched with a surprisingly gorgeous and low-key trailer set to Gary Jules’ cover of Tears for Fears’ “Mad World.” (Watch it here.) Now, with Gears of War 2 looming on […]
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Rock Band 2’s Free Tracks Revealed
Harmonix hopes to appease both the obscure music snob and cheap bastard in each of you with the newly-revealed 20 free downloadable tracks for Rock Band 2. Here’s the deal: Those of you who purchased Rock Band 2 may have noticed a page toward the end of the game’s manual offering 20 free downloadable songs […]
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Zombies Throughout The Years (Resident Evil Style)
Resident Evil ‘Zombie Evolution’ clip Resident Evil 5 should be coming soon, barring any massive delays at Capcom, so to celebrate, the Gamevideos.com people have glued together a montage looking at the evolution of the series’ most prolific antagonist, the zombie. I’m all for this video — both zombies and Resident Evil hold a special, […]
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Saints Row 2: This IS A Review
After my original non-review received a sternly written letter from THQ’s PR folk, The Mercury opted to take it down. Decrying a terrible game isn’t worth it when you’re liable to be sued for the whole thing, so I’ve been forced to remain mum on the subject. Until now. Saints Row 2 is essentially Grand […]
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Things I’ve Learned At Blizzcon
No one wants to read through 2 hours of transcribed interviews from my time here at Blizzcon — at least, none of you do — so I’m distilling everything down into a simple list of things I’ve learned this weekend. Hopefully this will also cover all the questions you guys offered up. Oh, and as […]
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Diablo III, StarCraft 2 In Video And A Few Words
Dear Mercury, Blizzcon is awesome. We spent the day weaving baskets and after the campfire we went for a swim in the lake. One of the other kids was bit by a fish, but he’s ok now. I miss you and mom a lot, and thanks for the care package. One of the older kids […]
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Got A Question For Blizzard?
I just landed in Anaheim, California for Blizzcon 2008, a two-day festival celebrating everything World of Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft and people who own T-shirts emblazoned with wolves, and don’t quite understand irony. Am I telling you all this just to point out the fact that it’s currently 70 degrees and sunny down here and that […]
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Guitar Hero World Tour Pricing Revealed (with Bonus Track Listing)
Activision has released the pricing scheme for their Rock Band competitor Guitar Hero World Tour. Unlike previous Guitar Hero games that focused solely on guitaring and heroing, World Tour apes Rock Band by adding a microphone, drum kit and gameplay that should be instantly familiar to anyone who has ever played the latter game. Ready […]
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Colonel Mustard Boggled Admiral Adama In the Viper and Then Shouted “Uno!” and Then–OMG! JENGA!
Here at the Mercury, we love us some Battlestar Galactica. (Well, except for Ezra. And secretly, Ezra loves it too–but much as he conceals his creepily encyclopedic knowledge of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ezra shamefully hides his love for Roslin and Adama deep, deep inside.) So the news that Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game! (A) […]
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Nintendo Resurrects Punch-Out for the Wii
Nintendo just revealed that the company is working on a new version of Punch-Out to be released on the Wii sometime in 2009. There’s not much in the way of details so far — Nintendo teases these things worse than Tia Tequila in a room full of 14-year-old boys — but the firm has slapped […]
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Warhammer Online: It Doesn’t Suck!
In my capacity as The Mercury’s official gaming geek I so rarely get to talk about PC games. I think World of Warcraft is the only game I have permission to discuss, and let’s face it: The majority of the other PC games out there would bore you pretty people in your quest to hear […]
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Nintendo Reveals New DS with Camera, MP3 Playback
Nintendo has finally revealed their next handheld, an evolution of the Nintendo DS that will include a built-in camera, an upgraded wi-fi antenna and music playback functionality. The new, unnamed system will hit Japan this year, and set Japanese gamers back around $190. Where’s the gag? There isn’t one. This is normally where I’d wax […]