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What Makes A Video Game Scary
How can a video game be scary? Unlike horror movies where you’re stuck watching some hapless victim succumb to scary stuff, video games empower players to fight back. Or at least run away. It’s October. Time to identify horror-gaming’s essentials. Some of the scariest experiences I’ve had in my life come from video games. I…
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Savage Moon On PSP
FluffyLogic is taking their action strategy game for the PlayStation Network and making it smaller, placing the player in control of the entire campaign in Savage Moon: The Hera Campaign for the PSP. Savage Moon is a tower defense sort of strategy game, released this past winter on the PlayStation Network. As Luke pointed out…
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XBLA This Week: Axel & Pixel Meet Sam & Max
It’s Adventure Time on Xbox Live Arcade this week, when a boy and his dog meet up with a dog and his feral rabbit-looking thing. I completely approve of more adventure games on Xbox Live Arcade, even if one of those games is a collection of short, bite-sized Sam & Max adventures previously released on…
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This Could Be The Biggest Wii Pack Shot Ever
Here’s the pack shot for Cyberbike, the Nintendo Wii exercise game that comes with its very own, full-size exercise bike packed right in. The Cyberbike comes from European publisher Bigben Interactive, who generally deal more in video game accessories than they do full-fledged titles, and when you get right down to it, the Cyberbike contains…
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Bayonetta PS3 Versus Bayonetta 360
You’ve heard about the difference between the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of Bayonetta; now see them for yourself in GameTrailers’ side-by-side comparison video. Now keep in mind that these are both demo versions of a game that won’t see release in North America until next year, so this is far from a final…
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New Dreamcast Game Gets A Deluxe Version
Just when we were sure Dreamcast games managed to dodge the trend of more expensive premium versions, redspotgames announces the Deluxe edition of it upcoming Dreamcast title, Rush Rush Rally Racing. Announced on the Dreamcast’s 10th anniversary, Rush Rush Rally Racing is a top-down racer that, in all fairness, looks rather primitive. Primitive as it…
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The Nintendo Download: Pinballs, Gravity, And More Final Fight
Nintendo distributes three new games to its three digital download services today, with DSi pinball, WiiWare gravity battles, and WiiWare getting a fight so final it had to have a 2 at the end. Final Fight 2 for the Super Nintendo (800 Wii points) is the only recognizable title in the Nintendo download this week,…
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Ready At Dawn Makes Its Own Game Dev Platform
Ready At Dawn gives its experience and expertise back to the development community with the Ready At Dawn Engine, a comprehensive game development platform that contains everything a company needs to make AAA console titles. In order to develop a title for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, or even the PSP, developers have to piece…
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Go Play Games With Earthquakes In Them
October 17 marks the anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake — that famous 1989 one that rocked Northern California during an Oakland Athletics/San Francisco Giants game. So all this week, I’m going to try to play games with earthquakes in them. I guess I could widen that to include games with bridge collapses, since part…
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Mass Effect 2 On PS3? Da, Mate! UPDATE
Two non-United States EA sites are listing Mass Effect 2 for the PlayStation 3. UPDATE: Brian Rubin with Fortyseven Communications has confirmed to Kotaku that those listings were “both mistakes, and they’re being corrected.” Sorry, PS3 owners! The first spotting was made by RPG Site on Russia’s EA site. VG247 made a second spotting on…
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Prince Of Persia Creator Talks Film Sequel
At China’s Game Developers Conference, Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner talked about the evolution of the series and about the sequel potential for that upcoming Jake Gyllenhaal flick. Gamasutra reports that Mechner sees potential for the film to continue on its own way in sequels that aren’t necessarily bound to any of the Prince…
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You Led Me On! — Dating In Video Games
I peruse columns on Sundays and today found myself cracking up over Emily Short’s GameSetWatch column, ‘Homer In Silicon’: Communicating Character. In it, Short recounts her first brush with Fable II‘s romantic interaction system. She was told non-playable characters would have gifts for her, so she mistook the ring icon above a villager’s head as…
By AJ Glasser