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PixelJunk Shooter Micro-Review: Just Add Water… Or Lava
Q-Games continues its series of deceptively simple PlayStation Network games with PixelJunk Shooter, where danger runs hot and salvation is just a glass of water away. Okay, maybe not a glass. PixelJunk Shooter is a game about saving miners and scientists trapped beneath the surface of a strange planet, but it’s also a game about…
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Nielsen Tells Us Who Buys Movie Games
Since no one here will admit to buying video game movies – so few rise above the category’s shovelware reputation – Nielsen done some research on the demographics most likely to buy titles like Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel. Sooprise, sooprise, “households with kids ages 6-12 represent the ‘sweet spot’ for these products,” writes…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Latest Transformers Title Officially Rolling Out for Wii, DS Too
We’ve known about it for a week, but today Activision officially announced Transformers: War for Cybertron (planet pictured above) and confirmed that versions for Wii and the Nintendo DS are in development as well. That makes it five platforms for the game – including the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 versions we already knew about.…
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Word Of Mouth Sells The Most Video Games
Video game publishers might rethink their marketing budgets when they see the results of the latest study from Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, which indicate that friends are three times as likely to influence a game purchase than traditional advertising. “Have you played (insert game here)?” It’s a question most of us have asked when considering a…
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Silly Game Show Gets Silly iPhone Game From Capcom
The only thing more ridiculous than a television quiz show set inside a taxi cab is an iPhone game simulating a television quiz show set inside a taxi cab. Yes, Capcom Mobile and Discovery Communications have teamed up to bring Cash Cab to the iPhone. Players take a simulated taxi ride, answering increasingly difficult questions…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Here’s A No More Heroes 2 Triple Feature
If you never played the first No More Heroes, and aren’t quite sure what to expect from the sequel even after our last video of the game, here are a few more hints. In clip form. The first clip is of alternate playable character Shinobu getting her slice on. The second is of one of…
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You’re A Video Game Retailer In 2010…What Will You Do?
Whether you’re a hard-working entrepreneur running your own store or a corporate executive overseeing a worldwide chain, what will you do as a video game retailer to make 2010 a better year for the game industry than 2009? We’ve already explored the world of game publishing in 2010 from our reader’s point of view, and…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle Preview: Fear And Loathing At Ubisoft
Two weeks before my appointment with Ubisoft, I managed to inflict a stress fracture on my ankle. So my opinions of the game are colored by the painkillers I took two hours before heading off to meet Goichi Suda. Given the nature of No More Heroes, I’m not sure whether my altered perspective detracted from…
By AJ Glasser - Uncategorized
Patrice Explains The Assassin’s Creed II DLC
Our favorite member of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed II team, creative director Patrice Desilets with his wondrous beard, explains what exactly is going on in the Battle of Forli and Bonfire of the Vanities DLC. We already technically know what’s coming in the double dose of DLC slated to arrive over the next two months, but…
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Play Drums With Animal On Your iPhone
There is now an iPhone game that allows you to play drums against Animal from The Muppet Show. Truly we live in an age of wonders. Walt Disney has released The Muppets Animal Drummer on the iTunes App Store, allowing players to rock out with the world’s greatest practitioner of the drumming art. You can…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Assassin’s Creed II’s Gap-Filling DLC Priced And Detailed
Ubisoft has delivered details and pricing info for January and February’s Assassin’s Creed II downloadable content, which fill the gaps in Ezio’s DNA sequence. How much will it cost to complete the game? Yes, as Totilo theorized, the Battle of Forli and Bonfire of the Vanities DLC, dropping in January and February respectively, comprise the…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Why Andy Richter Didn’t Win A VGA Award
On last night’s episode of Late Night with Conan O’Brien, sidekick Andy Richter expresses disappointment that he didn’t win a Spike VGA award for his work as the voice of Ezio in Assassin’s Creed II. The only reason I can imagine for such a grievous oversight is the fact that he didn’t actually voice Ezio…
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