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UncategorizedA Game That Stares a Laser Beam Through You
Security cameras rarely send the message you’re in a safe area. Their presence usually more likely mean you’re somewhere someone expects something to go wrong. Surveillant expands on this sense of menace, making the camera an adversary, not a friend. Surveillant, for the iPhone and iPod Touch, is a sleek 3D platformer that offers some…
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A Real-Time Strategy Game Of Thrones
The bloody conflict in the Kingdom of Westeros comes to life in the first screens of A Game of Thrones: Genesis, the real-time strategy game based on acclaimed fantasy author George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire saga. French developer Cyanide Studio revealed its plan to develop games based on Martin’s beloved works…
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UncategorizedThe Most Heartbreaking Zombie Video Game Trailer You’ll Ever See
It’s been more than three years since we last heard any news on Techland’s zombie survival horror game Dead Island. Now it’s back, with a trailer demonstrating that not even children are safe from the undead hordes. When last we saw Dead Island it was heading for a 2008 release on the Xbox 360 and…
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Bejeweled Proposed As A Clinical Treatment For Depression And Anxiety
While more mainstream video games are under fire for causing depression, a new study at East Carolina University finds that playing casual puzzle games is an effective way to combat clinical depression and anxiety. Guess who underwrote the study? East Carolina University’s Psychophysiology Lab and Biofeedback Clinic have spent the past year putting 60 test…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Are These The Top 50 Video Game Characters Of All Time?
Guinness asked gamers to vote for the top 50 video game characters of all time, so if your favorite character is not represented in this list you probably should have voted harder. More than 13,000 gamers cast their vote at the Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition website in order to create this list, and it…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Sony Lays Down The Law On PlayStation 3 Hacking
With the PlayStation 3 cracked wide open and alleged console hackers being taken to court, Sony Computer Entertainment America issues a statement today warning users that the use of “unauthorized circumvention devices” will be met with swift, meaningless justice. As the private cryptography key that allows hackers to run unauthorized and pirated software on the…
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Chris Evans Lends His Voice To Captain America: Super Soldier
No matter how good or bad Sega’s movie tie-in for Marvel’s Captain America movie ends up being, at least we won’t have to deal with a crappy Chris Evans sound-alike. Captain America: Super Soldier is Next Level Games and Sega’s attempt at making up for three (potentially four, with Thor on the way) consecutive poor-to-middling’…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Dreaming Of A Console That Plays Every Game
In today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter EcksJay22 envisions a console that will run any game he purchases, sold by merit of hardware features rather than exclusive game content. As far as I know, video-game consoles are the only product of their kind that lack any type of software intercompatibility. This, in my opinion, sucks. I…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Become A Millionaire With Facebook Monopoly
The offline social game you play with your friends becomes the online social game you play with your friends with Monopoly Millionaires, the Facebook game where everybody gets their own Monopoly board. Hasbro and EA have scattered Monopoly to the four corners of the gaming world, from the Xbox 360 to the Nintendo DS to…
By Mike Fahey
