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UncategorizedIndie Man Valiantly Brings Down The Big Bad Game Companies
All of the qualms you’ve been having over your favorite AAA games—like bad endings and online passes—have Indie Man to blame. Indie Man bursts into high profile game company meetings and inserts his crazy ideas to bring down the man. All of his valiant efforts are to help indie games’ popularity. So, does it work?
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UncategorizedDabble With Word Puzzles and Just Enough Strategy
Dabble is an incredibly simple but satisfying game that combines two of my favorite things: words and puzzles. Like any other word game, Dabble gives the player a bunch of tiles and asks them to form words; this is fairly straightforward. Then the puzzle catch comes in: each round has exactly 20 tiles, from which…
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UncategorizedYou’re Trapped Inside a Gigantic Claw Machine. What Do You Do?!
It’s all fun and games until the giant claw descends from the sky and threatens to make you the unwilling plaything of a surly teenager. This brilliant (very) short film from SoKrispyMedia captures the sheer panic experienced by brave men that have, perhaps foolishly, made the inside of a claw machine their preferred hang-out spot.…
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UncategorizedSomeone Please Build This Magical Kingdom of Disney Minecraft
I don’t think anyone can say they don’t like Disney World. But if it’s missing something, it’s certainly a Minecraft themed park. After all, the last time the resort received a major addition was in 1998. How cool would it be to walk through a pixelated universe with hired actors walking around as creepers? Whichever…
By Tina Amini - Uncategorized
Two-Thirds of Parents Admit They Don’t Bother Checking Video Game Age Ratings
The ESRB has a fairly detailed and complex system that determines what games are marked kid-safe and which are considered appropriate for adults’ eyes only. All major publishers participate in the voluntary rating system, and it is instrumental in physical, retail game sales in stores like GameStop and Walmart. But does any of it actually…
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UncategorizedOur First Teasing Glance at DJMax Technika Tune for the PlayStation Vita
Korea’s charmingly difficult rhythm game series makes the leap to the PlayStation Vita this Summer with DJMax Technika Tune. Mmmm, touch the music. I’ve got a little love affair going with Pentavision’s DJMax series, greedily gobbling up the sexy style and smooth music of every version released in North America, and importing whatever else I…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
The Xbox 360 Is Ridiculously Old And Now We Can Prove It
The Xbox 360 is very, very old. It’s older than the iPhone, which came out a year and a half after we got the 360. It’s older than Barack Obama’s presidency by three years. We got the Xbox 360 before three even-year Modern Warfares and the three Call of Duty games that came out in…
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