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UncategorizedApril Fools! All of These Announcements Are Fake—but Which Ones are Funny? [Updated AGAIN]
Alright, it may be a Sunday, but it’s still April Fools’ Day, a very special day in video gaming, and many of its companies, studios and merchants are pulling hoaxes and stunts, and making gag announcements. So let’s round up as many as we can here! MetaMeta Critic (Paradox Interactive) The developer of of PC…
By Owen Good - Culture
Feel the Force
Kinect Star Wars is the highlight of April Fools’ week, which is traditionally not a big sales holiday. For anything. Xenoblade Chronicles releases in the west on Friday. Tuesday • Fallout 3 and Oblivion Double Pack (PS3, 360) • Kinect Star Wars (360) Wednesday • I Am Alive (PSN) Friday • Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii) •…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Here’s the First Look at a Super Meat Boy Completely Rebuilt for Mobile Devices So ‘It’s Not Shitty’
When Team Meat set out to create a Super Meat Boy version for touchscreen mobile devices, creators Tommy Refenes and Edmund McMillen vowed they wouldn’t just slap a virtual gamepad on the thing and do some half-assed port of their downloadable hit for PC and Xbox 360. They’ve fleshed out their vision more, and offered…
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UncategorizedThe Silly, and Sentimental, Appeal of Playing Golf as Toddler Tiger Woods
I’ve played video games as 7-foot-centers and hulking first basemen, I’ve probably pitched to or hit against the virtual counterpart of every Hall of Fame ballplayer who has appeared in the last 20 or so years. The idea of playing a sport as someone famous has well lost its novelty in the modern era of…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Draw Something CEO Backs Down When Notch Calls Out His Uncalled-For Twitter Rage
Shay Pierce made it clear why he turned down steady pay and benefits when Zynga bought his old employer, OMGPOP, the makers of Draw Something. He was concerned that his ownership of a personally developed and published game on the iTunes App store would be a conflict. He chose not to join Zynga with the…
By Owen Good
