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Resident Evil: Revelations on Consoles Looks Better but Still Sounds About the Same
On one hand, this is the first trailer for Resident Evil: Revelations on consoles and PC. That lets you see the game (which released on the 3DS a year ago) as you’ve never seen it before. On the other, that means you’re seeing something that looks like BioShock, starring Davy Jones’ bad guys from Pirates…
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One Hell of an Arcade Beat-Em Up is Coming to Facebook, and Here’s Why You Should Play It
Console quality games are a hard sell on Facebook. Each day millions of people log into Facebook to tend their virtual farms or play colorful candy puzzle games, while the hardcore shooters or robot-powered action role-playing games attract daily users in the low ten-thousands. What’s it going to take to get traditional gamers playing on…
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Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes is Now on iOS. It Could Use Some Work.
Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes is one of my favorite puzzle role-playing games. I loved it on the DS. I loved it on Xbox Live Arcade. I’ve got it for my PC. This week the game finally arrived on iOS, and I grabbed it immediately. So far I am less than impressed. Might &…
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SimCity‘s Visual Filters Mean No Colorblind Gamer is Left Behind
If you have it, color blindness is extremely frustrating to a video gamer. I’ve written about this before. No, it’s not a debilitating condition, nor does designing games for a perfectly color-sighted majority constitute a moral injustice or the worst insensitivity video gaming shows to its diverse constituency. But man, in minimaps, friendly/hostile apparel, puzzles,…
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You Can’t Be Serious—You Can Not Be Serious—Playing Tennis in the Face
My father has been a tennis umpire for more than 25 years. He’s seen and penalized plenty of bad behavior, both professional and college. But I doubt he’s ever seen anything like Pete Pagassi, the protagonist of Tennis in the Face “If a player hits a ball at a court official or a ballkid, is…
By Owen Good
