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Rabbids Go Home Preview: Rabbids Go In Your Wiimote
The Rabbids series has done pretty well for itself, considering that it’s all about about mentally challenged bunnies doing wacky things. Previous installments of Rayman Raving Rabbids games have all been about mini games that make use of the Wii’s unique controls in perverse and silly ways. Like the one where you used your butt…
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Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes Preview: The Might Of Mana… and Puzzles
The Might & Magic series is more commonly associated with hardcore role-playing game or turn-based strategy combat – but Ubisoft is going for another reboot of the series with Clash of Heroes. The game is still turn-based and there’s still a lot of strategy involved. But this adorable DS game is more of a puzzle…
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Red Steel 2 Preview: Whack-tastic Fun
I like to think I come to every new game with a clean slate – but Red Steel was so bad, I couldn’ help but be pessimistic about what to expect from Red Steel 2. After five minutes with the demo though, I take back everything bad I ever even started to think about this…
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Get Some Russian In Your Independence Day
War movies, games and books are a great way to reinforce patriotism on Independence Day; so here’s a trailer for a World War II game… that happens to be Russian. Men of War: Red Tide is a standalone expansion to the March 2009 PC realtime strategy game, Men of War. The game puts players in…
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XIII Century: Blood of Europe — All The Brutality, None Of The Plague
You thought things were hot in England during the 13th century, check out what they were up to in Eastern Europe. Unicorn Games‘ hardcore strategy game, XIII Century, recreates the battles between Teutonian knights and their target, Pskov city (which is part of present-day Russia).This expansion, Blood of Europe, zeroes in on more of the…
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Public Transit Ads Say Something About The Wii
So I’m on my way home from an evening with Ubisoft and I happen across these new Fly Oakland tourism ads on the Bay Area Rapid Transit. Each ad features an adult doing something silly — like a dude in a kufi Xeroxing his face — with the catch phrase “Fly Oakland… What You Do…
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Death To Spies 2: Moment of Truth Preview: SMERSH is a fun word to say
Death to Spies 2 is a sequel to a 2007 PC stealth action game that was like the Russian version of Hitman. The key difference in Death to Spies is that the player takes the role of a SMERSH (read: badass Russian counterintelligence agency) operative during World War II instead of a bald hired goon.…
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Bit.Trip: Core Preview: Thumb-Aching Good Fun
Bit.Trip: Core is the second installment of a six-part WiiWare music game series developed by Gaijin Games. The first game, Bit.Trip: Beat came out in March 2009 and quickly established itself as a tough game with solid rhythm gameplay. Though Nintendo never releases sales figures for its WiiWare titles, it’s safe to assume the title…
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Trucking It In Rig ‘n’ Roll
If you can’t believe a developer would build an entire game around big rig trucking, check out these screens of SoftLab-NSK’s Rig ‘n’ Roll — the only big rig simulator that covers all of California. Players take the role of a young man in the year 2024 to drive ginormous trucks from one end of…
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MySims Agents Preview: Spy vs. Sims
MySims Agents marks a shift in the MySims series away from free-roaming Sim with adventure game elements to actual adventure game with Sim flavorings. The MySims series started out as a cutesy, cartoony version of the Sims series for PC and Wii that would let a younger generation of gamer take a crack at the…
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Captain Blood Preview: Errol Flynn He Ain’t — But He’ll Do
The popularity of pirates is waning as the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise gives way to Twilight and Harry Potter – but Captain Blood aims to cash in on the tail end of the pirate craze. Loosely based on the Rafael Sabatini books that spawned an Errol Flynn movie and possibly a 2011 remake by…
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Dreamkiller Impressions: “Emotional Painkiller” Doesn’t Sound As Cool
Dreamkiller is a first-person shooter starring a “punk rock chick psychologist” who projects herself into her patients’ dreams to cure their psychotic behavior by killing their nightmares. Sound familiar? If it does and you’re not thinking of the anime, Paprika, it’s likely because Dreamkiller sounds a lot like Painkiller. Painkiller you might remember is that…
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Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 1 Preview: Guybrush Sails Again
Telltale Games aims to bring the comedy, adventure and swashbuckling of the classic Monkey Island games to a whole new audience – and to that end, they just drop you right into the action with Launch of the Screaming Narwhal. For fans of the original PC adventure games, the setting, situation and characters will be…
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Madballs in Babo Invasion Preview: A Game With Balls
The old tagline for the Madballs collectible toys of the 1980s was “Obnoxious And Gross!” which should tell you a lot about both the 80s and what to expect from squishy balls with disgusting faces. However, apart from starring revolting balls, Babo Invasion isn’t really affiliated with the toy line, the subsequent cartoon or the…
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You (Sorta) Owe Dead Space To Aristotle
Some deep reading over on Gamasutra on game design and narrative (courtesy of Company of Heroes narrative designer Stephen Dinehart) could be my next graduate school adventure. The feature, Dramatic Play, analyzes the intersection of interactive media, drama and games as well as the classic tenants of play and storytelling that make or break a…
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A Match Made In Post-Apocalyptic Heaven: PitFallout!
So apparently some good came out of watching a robot learn to play Pitfall: a Pitfall/Fallout mash-up. Giant Bomb community member buzz_clik threw theses screens together in lieu of an actual game after reading a story about the Rutgers University robot that conquered the Atari 2600 classic game. It would have been cooler to have…
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Scandal Of The Day: Aquatica iPhone
Earlier today, flOw creator Jenova Chen accused Aquatica iPhone developer Ketera Software of either improperly sourcing his game as inspiration or flat-out ripping off flOw’s source code. The two games do look mighty similar and have pretty much the same player objective. When people pointed that out in comments for a YouTube trailer of Aquatica,…
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Indie Dev To Make Biblical Striptease Game
As a nice Jewish girl, I don’t know much about the New Testament; but a game based on a biblical chick who dances the first-ever striptease and then demands a guy’s head sounds cool. Indie developer Tale of Tales is known for their creepy and often upsetting story games such as The Path and The…
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Nation Should Invest In Video Games, Says Study
The Joan Ganz Clooney Center at Sesame Workshop released a study today that names video games as an untapped federal resource for change in America’s youth. Game Changer: Investing in Digital Play to Advance Children’s Learning and Health admonishes health officials, educators, philanthropists, universities, policymakers, the games industry and the federal government to get off…
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Gay Pride Week in World of Warcraft
Gay Pride Week is one of the biggest deals in the San Francisco Bay Area — apparently, it’s also a big deal to one World of Warcraft server. GayGamer reports that the Proudmoore Server hosted a fifth annual Pride celebration and parade put on by guilds The Spreading Taint and The Stonewall Family. According to…
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