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EA Brings Back Family Game Night

Back when I was growing up, just about every family I knew had a closet full of tattered board games, ready at a moment's notice should said family come dangerously close to just quietly sitting and enjoying each other's company. Now EA introduces the 21st century version of said dusty closet, Hasbro Family Game Night for the Nintendo Wii and PlayStation 2.

The title contains a nice selection of six big-name board game favorites - Battleship, Yahtzee, Boggle, Connect Four, Sorry!, and the all-new Sorry! Sliders, each with its own twist for fresh gameplay. Connect Four gets power chips, Bobble gets portal cubes, etc. As a special added bonus, each game is hosted by Mr. Potato Head. Apparently we needed a host, and he was available.

If you ever wanted to get you parents into gaming, Hasbro Family Game Night will probably be your best chance when it comes out this Fall.

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8:00 AM on Fri May 16 2008
By Mike Fahey
1,654 views, 53 comments

Latest by munkah: I don't think Wii has enough mini-games, let's dump another truck full onto it. /sarcasm more »

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Zero Punctuation Takes On You

Apparently Yahtzee's review of Super Smash Bros. Brawl received so much negative response that he decided to dedicate this week's Zero Punctuation to you, his viewing public. More specifically, the members of his viewing public that saw fit to bombard him with letters about how wrong he was about his review. This sort of thing always amuses the hell out of me as you cannot tell someone that their opinion is wrong. You can try to change their opinion, but an opinion cannot technically be incorrect. You can disagree til the cows come home, but then why the hell are you living with cows? Exactly. I especially like the letter that asks how he can call them game reviews without a numerical score. How indeed.

7:00 PM on Wed May 7 2008
By Mike Fahey
16,748 views, 277 comments

Latest by Narfmaster: <3 Yahtzee more »

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Zero Punctuation Reviews Condemned 2 (And Indigo Prophecy)

This week, Yahtzee officially reviews Condemned 2. And that's great. But then, in the heat of passion, he breaks into a mini-review of Indigo Prophecy. Plus, if you really think about it, there's actually a good amount of rhetoric on the original Condemned, too. So you are actually getting like 2 to 2 1/2 Zero Punctuations this week. And it's all coming at you for a low, low price of just $100 an episode. Oh, didn't you know? Then you're fucked, man. But at least you get some steak knives (for only $8.95 S/H).

Zero Punctuation: Condemned 2: Bloodshot [The Escpaist]

1:30 PM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Mark Wilson
9,386 views, 125 comments

Latest by MetaKz: Indigo Prophecy syndrome sucks. :( Sucks to hear that it happens in Condemned 2. At least the first half is really cool and interesting :P more »

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Zero Punctuation On Army Of Two

While I had previously thought that Yahtzee might be slowly losing his touch, this week's Zero Punctuation on Army of Two actually made me laugh out loud in several spaces, though that could be whatever illness is currently ravaging my body (I suspect scurvy). It actually plays out a lot like Crecente's review of the game, with the exception that Crecente loved the weapons customization, which in Yahtzee's eyes makes him a...you know, I'm pretty sure completing that sentence isn't conducive to being employed, so I shall just leave it at that.

Zero Punctuation on Army of Two [the escapist]

1:20 PM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Mike Fahey
8,829 views, 85 comments

Latest by The Instructor: Yahtzee alludes to a good point: he wants to make less anti-gay jokes (ostensibly) because there's already a lot of anti-gay sentiment in his reviews. There's a lot in the general population of video game fans too. Notice the first comment on more »

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Zero Punctuation Plus A Touching Love Story

This week Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw of X-Play fame takes a look at SimCity Societies and doesn't quite like it, coming to the conclusion that drawing your own city in MS Paint would be a more fulfilling experience - but that's not important. What is important is the touching story of love and loss that follows the review, featuring characters from Valve's Team Fortress 2 and a musak version of "Up Where We Belong" from 1983's An Officer and a Gentlemen. It'll bring a tear to your eye. Share it with someone you love this Valentine's Day.

Zero Punctuation [the escapist]

11:20 AM on Wed Feb 13 2008
By Mike Fahey
8,723 views, 120 comments

Latest by --Core--: Hmm.. Liked it as always. Have to admit though, the end surprised me on two twist.. more »

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Zero Punctuation Previews Going To X-Play

Wow Yahtzee, you've done the impossible. You have a television program running previews of a freaking 3-minute review. Yeah, did you hear? X-Play will be running a snippet of your upcoming Zero Punctuations every Tuesday night. And including the clip's introduction, run time, and accompanying in-show bumpers, we wouldn't be surprised if this Tuesday teaser took just as long as your actual Wednesday review.

It's ludicrous media piggybacking, but we don't blame you...pending that you sleep on a big pile of greenbacks after a hard day's work.

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10:40 AM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By Mark Wilson
33,845 views, 88 comments

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EA Announces First Hasbro Games

Electronic Arts today announced nine Hasbro games that will be hitting a variety of platforms over the next year.

Littlest Pet Shop and NERF "N-Strike" are both set to come to the Wii and DS this fall, with Littlest Pet Shop also making its way to the PC. Scrabble, Monopoly Here and Now and Yahtzee Adventures are all being developed for mobile phones. Electronic Arts is also developing Yahtzee, Monopoly Here and Now: World Edition, Trivial Pursuit and Operation for their online casual gaming service, Pogo.com.

"EA and Hasbro want to give families new ways to enjoy games; we want give them a new way to come together, connect, spend time and have fun around the TV or online," said Chip Lange, Vice President and General Manager of EA's Hasbro Studio. "Bringing the spirit of these games to life as video games has allowed us to create really unique and creative experiences for families and friends of all ages to enjoy together at home or online."

"We are thrilled that together we are bringing our great toys and games to life in the digital world and providing consumers with new and dynamic ways to enjoy our amazing brands," said Mark Blecher, Hasbro's Senior Vice President of Digital Media and Gaming.

EA will be showing off a number of the games at the upcoming Toy Fair in New York later this month. Hit the jump for the full release with game descriptions.

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8:00 AM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By Brian Crecente
4,600 views, 88 comments

Latest by Josh*: @njhardcoreguy: What, did you feel strong-armed into buying such titles? What an idiot. more »

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The Secrets of Zero Punctuation Revealed!

We're all big fans of Zero Punctuation around here, so we were pretty eager to read Boing Boing Gadgets' interview with auteur Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw (why we didn't do one ourselves...hindsight). In addition to talking about his favorite games (Silent Hill 2, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time and Portal), Croshaw finally laid to rest the debates we've had over how long these spots take to produce. More »

12:20 PM on Fri Jan 25 2008
By Mark Wilson
29,841 views, 89 comments

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Zero Punctuation Doesn't Hate Crysis

I'm right up there with Mark when it comes to Zero Punctuation, harboring a bizarre sort of hetero man-love for Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw while constantly fearing that the next Zero Punctuation will be the episode where he finally loses it and simple says the word "cock" over and over again for three minutes using all sorts of tonal modulations while his adorable little stick figure avatar sits in the corner of the screen and cries. Luckily this week's review of Crytek's Crysis is not that episode, and aside from the obligatory "OMG system specs" moment, Ben manages to entertain completely while making references to prison rape, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, and the master himself - Columbo. More game reviews need to end with a giant thumb's up popping out of a crudely drawn cartoon character's ass.

[the escapist]

11:20 AM on Wed Jan 16 2008
By Mike Fahey
11,038 views, 125 comments

Latest by GlockEH: Like his reviews, although I was scared of him and his team at a 48 hour game competition. He did the intro for his teams' game and yes it was zero punctuation. more »

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Zero Punctuation "Watery Ejaculate Sandwich" (Assassin's Creed) Edition

Given that we used Yahtzee's "watery ejaculate sandwich" metaphor in the headline, you'd think that he didn't like Assassin's Creed. But actually, he enjoyed the game quite a bit—at a level somewhere between Jericho and Orange Box—which though a wide margin, is clarified by (yet another) "bronze" medal metaphor. We don't have much else to say on the topic, other than now we know why you always go for the gold.

Yahtzee gets stabby with Assassin's Creed [theescapist]

1:40 PM on Wed Dec 5 2007
By Mark Wilson
13,139 views, 95 comments

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Yahtzee Skewers Heavenly Sword Demo

Yahtzee Croshaw is my hero. Having been discovered by The Escapist via his "Fully Ramblomatic" reviews of Fable: The Lost Chapters and the PS3 demo of The Darkness. He's a British-born writer living in Australia whose flash animations were among the best things on YouTube and now, by extension, The Escapist. This week in their Zero Punctuation segment he manages to cover everything I wanted to cover in my stories on the miniature Heavenly Sword(s) demo and Resident Evil 5 racism, only much more amusing than I could ever hope to be. I hate him. I love him. Just go look for yourself, and report back to me your findings.

Zero Punctuation: Heavenly Sword and Other Stuff [The Escapist]

10:20 AM on Thu Aug 16 2007
By Mike Fahey
8,007 views, 107 comments

Latest by mcderek3000: BRILLIANT! I think the new Penny Arcade has arrived! more »