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UncategorizedThe Oregon Trail uh, Trailer — There Will Be Dysentery
This trailer, allegedly for a movie based on everyone’s favorite edutainment game Oregon Trail, is so well done I honestly triple-checked to make sure the movie wasn’t really being filmed. Revisit all the well known gags – overloading on ammo, the banker’s uselessness and, of course, dysentery’s sweet, brown embrace – in this short shot…
By Owen Good Published August 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Remembering What Never Happened
What if your most treasured memories from childhood were false? A shocking new study finds that one in five people fondly recall events that never actually happened. When I was seven -years-old my family and I had a black and gray cat named George Washington. I thought George was a boy, but then one day…
By Mike Fahey Published August 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Backbreaker Gets A Makeover With Enormous Patch Due Soon
New plays, better AI, a suite of replay cameras and new “focus modes” are among features coming to the football title Backbreaker, possibly as soon as Wednesday, through one of the largest patches I’ve ever seen for a sports game. That’s the good news; the bad news is sort of that they were needed in…
By Owen Good Published August 2, 2010 - Reviews
Castlevania Puzzle: Encore Of The Night Review: Alucard’s Puzzle Quest
Castlevania Puzzle: Encore of the Night takes the classic Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and transforms it into a puzzle role-playing game. Can they do that? I consider Castlevania: Symphony of the Night to be one of the greatest 2D action role-playing games ever created. It has everything: Responsive controls, an engaging storyline, Metroid-style item-based…
By Mike Fahey Published August 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Xfire Sold Off, Development Team Leaving [Update]
Two communications today from Xfire, the social networking tool for PC gamers, indicate that the service has been sold off and most of its development team will be leaving as a result. Update: Titan Gaming has acquired Xfire. At about 3:15 p.m. Pacific Time, Xfire members received the following message: Xfire was bought by new…
By Owen Good Published August 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
My Dreams Were My Ticket Back Here
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: WELCOME BACK BRIAN CRECENTE Thanks Ash, it’s good to be back. I spent last week in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico laying by a pool, reading, drinking and eating. Occasionally I swam. But not much. About halfway through the week the family and I took a boat to a private beach once…
By Brian Crecente Published August 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kevin Butler Gets a Gift Basket of Sorry from New Zealand
The New Zealand TV network that ripped off a PS3 ad and was called on it by fake executive Kevin Butler sent the PlayStation “vice president of everything,” a large gift basket as a gesture of goodwill. Butler, noticing that New Zealand’s TV3 straight-up copied the PS3’s “Montage” ad from earlier this year, didn’t send…
By Owen Good Published August 2, 2010 -
UncategorizedHawk Eye RC Chopper: Your $65 Personal Spy Drone
Flying an RC helicopter? Sure, that’s fun for a little while. Flying an RC helicopter that can shoot both video and still photos? That’s good for a lifetime of creepy stalking memories. The Air Hogs Hawk Eye RC chopper will be coming out sometime this fall, and while the length and quality of the video…
By Brian Barrett Published August 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Madden NFL PSP Bundle Confirmed
Sony may not have confirmed that there is a Playstation 3 Madden bundle yet, but they did unveil a new Playstation Portable Madden 11 bundle today. The PSP bundle comes with a Black PSP-3000 (i.e. not a PSPGo) and the Madden NFL 11 UMD game for $169.99 starting on Aug. 10. Still no word on…
By Brian Crecente Published August 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Can You Mix Scribblenauts With LittleBigPlanet Successfully?
A few weeks ago, I saw Create, one of the newest — and still unfinished — games from EA, makers of Madden, The Sims and Dead Space. My signature swore me to temporary silence that ends now. What I saw of Create looked, at first, like derivative creativity. Here was a game set in two…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Sid Meier’s Civilization: The Board Game Looks Wonderfully Complex
From the creators of the World of Warcraft and StarCraft board games comes Sid Meier’s Civilization: The Board Game, the second board game inspired by the addictive turn-based strategy game. Sid Meier borrowed concept for the original Civilization video game from an Avalon Hill board game of the same name, so it seems a no-brainer…
By Mike Fahey Published August 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
BioShock Creators’ Next Game Debuts Next Week, Trailer On Aug. 12
System Shock 3? BioShock 3? SWATshock? Ken Levine Dating Simulator? The next game from Irrational Games, makers of BioShock, will be revealed next week. Irrational’s new podcast has some fun with the guesses. Irrational Games, the Massachusetts-based developed studio headed by Ken Levine and largely responsible for BioShock, System Shock, SWAT 4, and Freedom Force,…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Frankenreview: StarCraft II: Wings Of Liberty
It’s been awhile since we’ve posted a good old-fashioned Frankenreview, so we’re bringing it back with a game that hasn’t seen a sequel in over a decade – StarCraft II. StarCraft II is the sequel to what many consider the greatest real-time strategy game of all time. It continues the epic tale of interstellar conflict…
By Mike Fahey Published August 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Play Michael Jackson The Experience at Germany’s GamesCom
Ubisoft’s Michael Jackson The Experience will be playable at this month’s GamesCom in Germany, alongside Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, R.U.S.E. and a slew of other upcoming titles. Ubisoft’s Gamescom line-up will give attendees a chance to play the multiplayer mode of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood and check out a presentation on the single player campaign. Other…
By Brian Crecente Published August 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
Choose Your Own Fable III Villager
Get a head-start on populating the world of Fable III with the Fable III Villager Maker, an easy way to add a new non-player character to your game without having to be a virtual slut. If you played Fable II like I did, by the time the game was over, 80% of the non-player characters…
By Mike Fahey Published August 2, 2010 - Uncategorized
iTunes Chart Topper: Choppers, Farms and Military Maneuvers, Vietnam In Chart Form
Risk : The Official Game takes a unprecedented drop. We Farm for iPad proves iGamers are still not tired of FarmVille knock-offs, and everyone has gone crazy for the Choppers. Here’s the full list of games for both platforms: Which do you think should be the top game? Check out all of our iPhone game reviews…
By Aulistar Mark Published August 2, 2010