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The Gamer’s Girl Gives Dating Advice To Gamers
Last month I blogged about my colleague’s blog, The Gamer’s Girl. At the time, her project was aimed at the girlfriends of gamers, but now it looks like she’s broadened her blogging horizons. This week’s featured article is on how a Gamer can meet a Gamer’s Girl. Magic insight: every girl a gamer meets has…
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TGS Round-Up: Day 3
The 2009 Tokyo Game Show continues into the weekend, but today we’ve got Dead Rising 2, Hideo Kojima, Crackdown 2 multiplayer, and much, much more! Hands-On With Crackdown 2’s Tribes-Like Multiplayer Dead Rising 2: Behold The Rake Shotgun Hands On With Tecmo’s “TPS” Quantum Theory Order Of Importance? Booth Check: Sony’s PlayStation Space Dead Rising…
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New Risen Trailer — We Swear Famous People Are In This Game
You’d think if a developer shelled out to have Andy Serkis and John Rhys-Davies in their voice cast that they’d make use of the heavy-hitters in their trailer. But nope. All you get is some guy saying the name of the game right at the end. I guess that’s why they call it a “teaser”…
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Borderlands Introduces the Crimson Lance
Gearbox sent out a punchy update today assuring us that Borderlands is “pretty damn huge” and all that we’ve seen so far are “the noobie areas of the game. You haven’t even met the real bad guys yet.” OK, enlighten us. Well, first, Gearbox touts a 60-plus hour experience “in just the first play through,”…
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Seven Japanese Developers Discuss Their Visions of Project Natal
Microsoft has released seven quick-take videos of top-flight Japanese developers discussing Project Natal and the opportunities they see in it for the next generation of game development. Keiji Inafune, of Capcom, sees Natal as a way to expand the means of control beyond the “limited interface,” a standard controller. Tecmo’s Keisuke Kikuchi sees Natal as…
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EA Spokeswoman Hits Back at Australian Classification Board
Electronic Arts, the retail distributor for Left 4 Dead 2 weighed in against The Australian classification board‘s refusal of Left 4 Dead 2, and it’s not as mild as the “pretty bummed” Valve offered last week EA spokeswoman Tiffany Steckler, speaking to GameSpot Australia, implied Left 4 Dead 2’s violent content is not beyond the…
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Rock Band 2 Patch Gets By With a Little Help from The Beatles
Improved chord hammer-on/pull off notes, taken from The Beatles: Rock Band’s better handling of the feature, have been patched into Rock Band 2 as part of an omnibus update that became available today. Additionally the update enables support for wireless microphones and lays down an “audition” feature you may use when the Rock Band Network…
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Dead Rising 2: Behold The Rake Shotgun
We’ve got a quartet of videos showcasing some of the new weapons in Capcom’s Dead Rising 2, but only one of them really matters. Ladies and gentlemen – the rake shotgun. Don’t get me wrong. The stick thingy, wheelchair, and explosive footballs you’ll find in the clips below all look…nice. It’s just that they can’t…
By Mike Fahey