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Underground MMA Game Adds Female Fighters to the Card
Supremacy MMA, the underground fighter coming in late spring, will deliver something the two other mixed martial arts console titles don’t have: women on the fight card. Michele ‘Diablita’ Gutierrez, a former boxer who has transitioned to MMA, and Felice ‘Lil Dog’ Herrig, who was featured on Fight Girls on the Oxygen network, will be…
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UncategorizedWhat Would You Pick — a Threesome, or Marvel vs. Capcom 3?
The midnight release of Marvel vs. Capcom 3 was also the midnight after Valentine’s Day evening, a time when most normal and well adjusted people were gettin’ it on with loved ones, or at least those they’d hired for the night. Others are standing in line waiting for a video game. Our dreadlocked friend “Woolie”…
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UncategorizedSmall Screen NBA Jam is a Ported Trail Blazer
NBA Jam, available from the iTunes App Store for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch (on OSes 3 and 4) is the most complete port of a console sports game to this platform in its two-year history. It helps to have Electronic Arts’ muscle behind this – but it also helps that NBA Jam’s quirky…
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Psychologist Clarifies Bulletstorm Comments to Fox News
One of the two experts quoted in Fox News’ notorious hit-piece on Bulletstorm has clarified his remarks, and while he stands by them, says their presentation lacks context – and that he enjoys playing Mature-rated shooters in his free time as well. To recap, Dr. Jerry Weichman, as quoted by Fox News, said: If a…
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Duke Nukem Forever Is Planning One Hell of a Credits Roll
Fourteen years in the making, a lot of people have had a hand in the development of Duke Nukem Forever. Many of their names are lost forever. Gearbox Software, which will finally deliver the game in May, wants to credit everyone it can find who had a role in the game’s creation. “It is our…
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What The Onion Wants From Madden NFL 12
Putting Aaron Rodgers on the cover of Madden NFL 12 is believable. Everything else, well, you should be able to tell this is satire even without The Onion Sportsdome branding. With a lockout looming, and as the league recently reconfigured its contract to terms more favorable to EA Sports, I can guarantee that this will…
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UncategorizedBulletstorms, Storytelling, And Double Babies All The Way
Since this is the first chance I’ve gotten to do one of the new video day notes, I figured I’d demonstrate why I shouldn’t be allowed to do these ever again by showing off baby pictures. Really early baby pictures. The Marvel Edition Versus Fighting Pad Is Hideously Wonderful The Marvel Edition Versus Fighting Pad…
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ReviewsLowbrow, Sure. But Bulletstorm Isn’t Stupid
Bulletstorm did a ton of advance work securing its reputation as this year’s fratboy game, full of snickering, dick jokes and arm punches. It’s unapologetically lowbrow, but that doesn’t mean it’s stupid. Hell, some of the smartest guys I know were in my fraternity. Don’t look to Bulletstorm’s protagonist, Grayson Hunt, for enlightenment. He’s a…
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