This morning Electronic Arts sent over a copy of Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, the company’s latest Grand Theft Auto-inspired shooter. The game places you as the leader of a private military contractor who has been screwed out of some blood money by a corrupt government official. As is your wont, the rest of the […]
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Castle Crashers: Ye Olde Weekend Diversion
No date this weekend? Friends still pissed about you peeing in their aquarium? Cat looking at you with those cold, dead eyes? None of that matters, as this weekend you can entertain yourself with The Behemoth’s awesome downloadable beat-em-up Castle Crashers. Remember that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game where you could have four players […]
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Demigod: What If Diablo And Warcraft Had a Baby?
Take Diablo’s addictive combat, Warcraft’s strategy elements, shake vigorously, cover the whole thing in a gorgeous graphics engine, and you have Gas Powered Games’ upcoming strategy-RPG Demigod. Previously I was wary of the game for its wildly derivative nature, but after playing the thing earlier today and experiencing its well-polished, deeply strategic gameplay, I find […]
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The Next Big Thing: LittleBigPlanet
Though I’d seen LittleBigPlanet before this weekend’s Penny Arcade Expo, my first chance to play Sony’s world creation game came earlier this morning — and I think I’m in love. Most of the game isn’t actually much of a game. Players are given the opportunity to create Super Mario Bros.-esque levels from LBP’s wide selection […]
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Online Gaming Breeds Strange Bedfellows
One of the key reasons why I opted to attend the Penny Arcade Expo this year was the exhibition of a documentary I’ve been following professionally for quite a while: Second Skin. The documentary, created by two brothers and a friend who also happen to be long-time gamers, takes an in-depth look at the relationships […]
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Rock Band 2 Hits Ground Kontrol 10 Days Early
As if booze and Pole Position weren’t enough impetus to hit up Ground Kontrol on a nearly daily basis, co-owner Anthony Ramos just dropped me an email revealing that Rock Band 2 will appear in playable form at the arcade’s Rock Band Tuesdays event on September 2 — a full 10 days before the game’s […]
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Your Mom Is In Rock Band 2
Courtesy of my former employers over at Destructoid — lucky bastards that managed to score an early copy of Rock Band 2 — I present proof of my headline (and further proof that Sundays render me creatively bankrupt).
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Tiger Woods Walks On Water
Tiger Woods is the greatest thing to happen to golf since Caddyshack, and if this ad from Portland’s own Weiden+Kennedy is to be believed, he’s also the second coming of Christ. The promo, a spot created for Electronic Arts’ upcoming Tiger Woods ’09 virtual golfing title, refutes the claims of YouTube user Levinator25 who had […]
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Katamari Baby
Sometimes my bedroom gets really messy and I wish Katamari Damacy was real, so I could get one of those little guys with those sticky ball things to come in and roll it all up and throw it away. Or I could just give birth to a child and dress it up as a Prince/Princess […]
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Street Fighter IV: Now In America!
I’ve got good news and bad news for fans of Capcom’s Street Fighter games. First, the good news: Street Fighter IV has begun to appear in American arcades (despite the ongoing death of the traditional, non-pornographic, non-booze-filled arcade). The game will eventually see release on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC platforms, but purists […]
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PlayStation 3: It’s What’s For (Criterion’s) Blu-Ray
(I hope Herr Henriksen forgives me for momentarily stamping on his cinephile toes, but PlayStation 3 owners (and those on the fence about buying one) ought to hear this.) Those amazingly dedicated movie fetishists — “geek” isn’t a strong enough word given the meticulously crafted versions of cinematic classics they are responsible for — who […]
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I’m A Traitor To The Internet
Before I get into why I’ll no longer be invited to the Cute Overload Christmas Party, or get birthday phone calls from the I Love Egg people, let me assure you all: Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People is a a fun game. In fact, for what it’s worth — and particularly for the […]