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Going Back To Uni Just For Monster Hunter
I’ve been out of graduate school now for about six months. Never thought I’d be going back so soon, let alone for a video game. Tonight at 6 PM, Capcom kicks off Monster Hunter Tri University — a community event designed to get people up to speed on the new Wii game. You know how…
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The Many Looks Of Lara Croft
Once again, we have an amazing collection of artwork from The Design Inspiration to share with all of you. This time, the subject is Lara Croft, Tomb Raider. Now, I dig Tomb Raider. But after Zero Punctuation’s brutal review of Underworld, I’m started to feel mighty uncomfortable about all the animals Ms. Croft knocks off…
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Super Monkey Ball Says Happy Thanksgiving
I think Super Monkey Ball is the second-to-last game I would come up with when thinking about Thanksgiving — the first being Modern Warfare 2. Clearly Sega begs to differ though, with this spiffy Super Monkey Ball Thanksgiving wallpaper they posted to their blog. The wallpaper comes along with a hefty update on Super Monkey…
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“Look Out, He’s Got A Piece!” — Half-Life 2 Mods Mario, Castlevania
From all-new video games to fabulous cakes, the Super Mario Bros. and Castlevania games get lots of makeovers from fans and developers alike. Here are two more machinima renditions to add to the list. First up is the disorienting and somewhat upsetting Half-Life Super Mario Bros. I guess in a 2D world, a gray haze…
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Just Cause 2 Preview: Eat Your Heart Out, Spider-Man
“Sandbox third person shooter/action game” is a mouthful. Let me instead suggest an alternate label for Just Cause 2 the effectively sums up the experience: “BASE-jumping, grapple hook parachuting with guns.” Not that there’s anything wrong with the sandbox third person shooter/action game label; it certainly does sum up both Just Cause 2 and its…
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AI Convention Features StarCraft Competition
The 2010 conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) is hosting a StarCraft competition where contestants craft bots to pit against one another in four different tournaments. The different types of tournament are micro-management, small-scale combat, limited tech tree and full games using StarCraft Brood War 1.16.1. Registration is open between now and…
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Reviews
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Reflex Review: Looks Aren’t Everything
Two years after Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare wowed first-person shooter fans on Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3, the game gets both a sequel for those consoles and a Wii port of the original. The Treyarch developed Wii port doesn’t offer anything new or significantly changed from the original Modern Warfare. Gameplay switches…
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The Mystery Deepens In Possible Hotel Dusk Sequel
Japanese blog Sinobi reports that there are retail listings for a Hotel Dusk sequel for the Nintendo DS titled Last Window: Midnight Promise (Last Window: Mayonaka no Yakusoku). According to the blog, CING’s sequel is set in 1980s Los Angeles and will hit Japanese shelves January 14. A cursory search of Amazon Japan doesn’t turn…
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So, How Different Does Modern Warfare Wii Look?
Want to know how serious the graphical disparity is between Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Reflex on the Wii and the PlayStation 3 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare? Check this out. Digital Foundry has a side-by-side video comparison up that starts to walk you through the opening boat mission with Soap. At time of…
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Star Trek Online Preview: Ignoring Regulation
Let me get this out of the way: I’m not a Trekkie. I was a loyal Star Wars fan until the prequels and thereafter switched my science fiction allegiance to Neal Stephenson. So forgive me if I can’t come up with enough Star Trek quips or effectively weigh in on the Kirk vs. Picard debate.…
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Head In The Clouds: Flying In Video Games
There’s something fantastical about flying in a video game. We can easily run, jump and swim in real life. Flight is more exotic. But we do fantasize about it. Where do you think the term “flights of fancy” comes from? Nowhere is the realization of flight grander or more satisfying than in video games. When…
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Calling Preview: Ju-on, Take Two
Halloween might be long gone for 2009, but Japanese horror is fashionable all year round. Or at least Hudson hopes to make it so with Calling. As the name suggests, there’s an awful lot of cell phone usage in the horror/adventure game. During a demo given to games journalists by the Japanese director, a poor…
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Rooms Preview: Sliding Under The Fun Fence
If the puzzles of the Professor Layton games and the moody, noir setting of 2005’s Hotel Dusk could somehow mate and produce offspring, Rooms would be it. In this moody puzzle game, players take the role of a mysterious person invited to a mysterious birthday party in a mysterious building. Sensing a theme here? What…
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Bonk: Brink of Extinction Preview: Bringing Back Baldness
I have an enormous soft spot for Bonk because his game was synonymous with “the cool babysitter is coming over tonight and he’s bringing his Nintendo.” How could a kid resist? My fondness for baldness has faded since that idyllic time (thanks, puberty) and I no longer need a babysitter to supply my Nintendo fix.…
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Skate 3 Preview: Peer Pressure Is On
Sequels are hard when the preceding games are good. It’s tough to think of what to improve and changing too much because might ruin what made the first game(s) good. Lucky for you, Skate 3 developer Black Box is aware of this challenge and dealt with it once before in Skate 2. What Is It?…
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I Heart Me Some Apocalypse
Here’s a fiery, brimstone-y Darksiders trailer for you to savor the day after I posted my impressions of the fiery, brimstone-y game. Alas, there’s no Mark Hamil voice over to be heard here. But Moon Bloodgood gets a line and everything is as epic as you’d expect it to be. Enjoy!
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Yahoo: NES, Dreamcast Best Toys Of All Time
That time of year when parents have to invest in the newest hot toy for Christmas is at hand. Too bad not many of these Best Toys of All Time are still hot. From classic scooters and teddy bears to Furbies and Cabbage Patch Kids, this Good Housekeeping list documents the hottest of hot toys…
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Darksiders Is “Akin to Zelda” But Way Bloodier
We’re exactly three two months and one day away from Darksiders’ ship date and I’m still waiting for Battle Chasers #10. I’m sure comic-book-author-turned-game-designer Joe Madureira is pretty sick of hearing that for the last eight years or so. But here’s hoping his game will make you forget all about war-torn worlds, burly swordsmen and…
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