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Petz Preview: There’s Some Strategy Here
Sometimes at a press event, it’s a good idea to try the one game everybody doesn’t want to play – because it’s usually right next to the one everybody would kill to see. That’s right: Petz was my devious strategy to get a good look at Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines. Was it worth it? Actually, yes…
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Visualization: A Weird Experience With Beaterator
How do you get a feel for a music game when there’s no sound? Answer: Learn to visualize music. Rockstar’s game that’s more like a music application, Beaterator, features a ton of modes for the making of music on your PSP – all of which Stephen Totilo breaks down for you here. The project was…
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Tetris Preview: Adding and Subtracting From A Classic
It’s hard to preview a game you’ve been playing most of your life – especially one that has no narrative, little in the way of visuals and long history of success in its simplicity. But, I’m going to take a stab at it anyway with the upcoming downloadable installment of Tetris on the PSP Go.…
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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Hell yeah! McMike is not around to pose the question, so it’s up to me. As for what I’ll be playing, looks like NHL 2K10 and Madden for the iPhone, as your resident sports lunkhead’s work is never done. What other games will I play? Let’s see, there’s “Cabella’s Extreme Catshit Scooping,” as Sunday is…
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‘All You Need Is Love’ Needs Only Two Days to Set Rock Band Record
The combination of an iconic tune representing both a band and an era, sold to support a charity, helped the Beatles’ “All You Need is Love’ become the fastest-selling downloadable song in Rock Band history, two days after its release. However, in the statement Microsoft released to announce the chart-topping feat, neither the specific number…
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UncategorizedThis Time, the Teletubbies are the Zombies
Wanna see a horde of burning Teletubbies? Wanna hear them coo “la-la!” while their limbs are blown off? Would you relish seeing a dozen waddle over to a pipe bomb, then vanish in a red mist? Damn right, you do. This is yet another masterpiece put together by L4DMods – with credit to modder flameknight7.…
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Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron Graduates To Holocron Canon
Star Wars Battlefront’s story never made it into the books, comics or cartoons that comprise most of the Expanded Universe – but Elite Squadron is completely canon as far as LucasArts is concerned. They’ve got this thing called the “Holocron” which keeps track of continuity in the Star Wars Universe. Most of what gets done…
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Undead Knights Preview: Tag! You’re A Zombie!
Undead Knights had nobody representing it at Sony’s PSP media frenzy, but the game pretty much speaks for itself. In the moaning screams of the undead, that is. The story doesn’t seem too hard to follow: there was a king who had some knights and he decided to kill them and one of their girlfriends…
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Latest 2K10 Trailer Takes It Down on the Blocks
Noted low-post inhabitants Kevin Garnett, Pau Gasol and Dwight Howard are joined by up-and-comers like Portland’s LaMarcus Aldridge in this compilation of post-ups, drop-steps, and duck hooks in NBA 2K10, which hits the streets Oct. 6.
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Valve ‘Pretty Bummed’ by Australia’s Refusal of L4D2
No teeth-gnashing, just subdued disappointment from Valve when asked for comment on the Australian government’s refusal to classify Left 4 Dead 2, effectively banning it for sale there. Maybe Gabe Newell’s gonna talk to someone about it when he visits? Said Doug Lombardi, the Valve spokesman: We were surprised to hear of this news yesterday.…
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PSP’s Comic Book Store: Watch Civil War Unfold
I’ve always scorned digital readers because no matter how nifty the controls are, they just don’t have the tangible joy of real books. The PSP Comic Book store, though, puts me in a position where digital reader technology might actually trump the feeling of holding a real comic book in my hand. Because unlike books…
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Tomorrow Is Pirate Day In The World Of Warcraft
You know Talk Like a Pirate Day is getting out of hand (or hook!) when it gets its very own celebration in World of Warcraft. Yes, tomorrow, September 19th, is Talk Like a Pirate Day, and the folks at Blizzard have whipped up a nautical celebration in Booty Bay that’s sure to please fans of…
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Fat Princess: Fist Full Of Cake — Cake or Death? That Is The Question
Fat Princess may have disappointed a few fans with its single player mode, but Fist Full of Cake aims to get it right while still keeping the best bits of the PlayStation Network game. To that end, developer Super Villian (working closely with Titan Studios) added 50% more content to Fist Full of Cake, plus…
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LittleBigPlanet PSP Preview: PSP Platforming At Its Cutest
There are plenty of platformers to pick from when it comes to the PSP, but only one of them has Sackboy. Aside from gameplay features like the level editor and the ability to smack your co-op buddies in the dace, there’s a special charm to LittleBigPlanet that sets it apart from other platfomers. Part of…
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Jak & Daxter: The Lost Frontier PSP Preview: A Blast From The Past
I used to work as a QA tester at Sony Computer Entertainment and while there I met a a Lombax, man named Caley and developed a desperate need for a barrel roll. Jak & Daxter: The Lost Frontier brought back all of this within seconds because first of all, Jak & Daxter have obvious parallels…
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Army of Two: The 40th Day PSP Preview: A Fixed Perspective
I missed the first 39 days of whatever this game is talking about, but the 40th day is pretty exciting. Stuff explodes, people shoot at me and I have a dude to boss around. It’s like one-third of my life in Oakland, California. But enough about me, let’s talk about how to get a third…
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Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines Opens Up Gameplay And Closes The Book On Altair
Ubisoft listened carefully to criticisms of Assassin’s Creed to craft an improved outing for the sequel – but some of that feedback also made its way into Bloodlines on the Playstation Portable. That means that we spend less time with Desmond and actually get to find out what happens to Altair at the end of…
By AJ Glasser