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Twisted Metal Sets Game Critics’ Skulls Aflame
After a decade of lurking in the darkness just outside of gamers’ views the evil clown rides back into town, guns blazing, engines roaring, and game reviewers rarin’ for a shot. In the world of car combat, Twisted Metal has reigned supreme since the original game hit the PC and PlayStation back in 1996. Potential…
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UncategorizedSkullgirls Picked Just the Right Day to Reveal the Deadly Nurse Valentine
You just know the team at Reverge Games have been giggling to themselves for the past week in anticipation of today’s reveal of Nurse Valentine, the Skullgirls fighter with a prescription for pain. Body bags, scalpels, and other implements of clinical destruction mark the repertoire of Nurse Valentine, continuing the 3D fighter’s habit of mixing…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Watch This, Play This and Then Have a Happy Valentine’s Day
Continuing in our long-standing tradition (aka yesterday) of Watch This, Play This are three pieces of entertainment to stave off that bitter Valentine’s Day loneliness, or that romantic dinner you totally forgot to plan but that you promised your significant other you would. Oops. WATCH: Kicking off this Valentine’s Day is a video of Jimmy…
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UncategorizedBeat Hazard Ultra is the Game Photosensitive Seizure Blurbs Were Warning You About
Until now your iTunes music library has remained passive, patiently waiting for you to allow it to waft delicately to your eardrums. With the release of the iOS version of Beat Hazard Ultra your music is now a deadly predator, lurking in your playlist, awaiting the call to be transformed into explosive levels of eye-melting…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
See Curt Schilling Shilling Kingdoms of Amalur on Jimmy Fallon
38 Studios founder Curt Schilling uses tales of baseball triumphs past to hook Late Night host Jimmy Fallon and then brings Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning in for the kill. While Schilling comes across as completely excited about the release of his company’s first major game, Fallon himself looks like he’d much rather talk baseball for…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Survey: There’s a 1 in 10 Chance Words With Friends Will Get You Some Action
We all know that the “social” space has changed the dating scene. Facebook has thrown all sorts of new tools and little wrinkles our way. Now that the virtual hangouts have caught up with crowded bars as a place to meet a mate, social games are finding a new way to shine. Zynga ran a…
By Kate Cox - Uncategorized
Stop Copying World of Warcraft, Start Making a Better MMO
Commenter Kinecticdamage tries to shock massively multiplayer online game developers out of their World of Warcraft-fueled haze and on track to create something truly unique and beautiful in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. “In case of Doubt, copy WoW“, a message to MMO devs. I don’t know if there are any MMO analysts, business angels,…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Mostly Dead is Slightly Alive: Where Adventure Games Are Hiding
Double Fine’s record-breaking Kickstarter adventure has, over the past few days, rekindled the perennial discussion about the entire genre of adventure games. The classic adventure has had its death announced dozens, if not hundreds, of times over the past decade or so, with at least an equal number of rebuttals. When adventure game god Tim…
By Kate Cox
