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UncategorizedIs the New XCOM a Shooter? Judge for Yourself
2K Games has just now gotten around to posting its 20-minute E3 demonstration of XCOM; the voice-over script is the same that I heard in 2K’s booth, so you may judge for yourself what this game really is, what it isn’t, and what it really stands for. I stand by my original impressions, and I’m…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
NBA 2K12 Still Adding Players to Its Classic Teams
Interesting tweet out of 2K Sports’ digital marketing manager, Ronnie Singh, this afternoon: “We have just secured the NBA 2K12 rights to ’93 Denver Nuggets LaPhonso Ellis and added him to roster.” LaPhonso Ellis wasn’t a household name that year, but he did average 15.1 points per game as a starting forward on a Nuggets’…
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UncategorizedOn the Outside of Halo Fest, Looking In
Stephen Totilo wanders the street outside Halo Fest 2011, which gets underway across the street from PAX 2011 and will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the venerable shooter series. He’ll get in later tonight, and have more details tomorrow. Expect to hear plenty about Halo 4 coming out of this weekend.
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UncategorizedDark Souls Opens with Another Prologue in the Fog
The Demon’s Souls story returns in Dark Souls, and so does the game’s narrator, and so does her creepy pronunciation of “fog,” which sounds like “fug,” which Jezebel would tell us is an altogether different thing. Here is the prologue to the game, establishing how the land has once again become a hellhole and why…
By Owen Good
