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From Chrono Trigger to Xenogears: The Yasunori Mitsuda Mixtape
Are you like me? Do you get a little misty eyed when you hear Schala’s theme? A swell of nostalgia when the violin from Chrono Cross swells? Well boy howdy, this is the mixtape for you! Yasunori Mitsuda’s music set the tone for so much of gaming in my youth: Chrono Trigger, Xenogears, Chrono Cross.…
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Watch Dogs Game Gives Out Real People’s Email Addresses
Watch Dogs is a game that feeds on our connectedness and paranoia. It posits an ever-so-slightly tweaked version of the reality we know, and tells us it can be manipulated to no end. The footage we saw at and after E3 has led into an ARG centering on the fictional art gallery owner Joseph Demarco…
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Sadly, The Expendables 2 Video Game is Not Developed by Wright, Meier, Carmark and Garriott
Based on the upcoming sequel to the hit action ensemble film starring every action hero still able to pick up a weapon, Ubisoft’s The Expendables 2 is missing a real opportunity to assemble the greatest team of game developers that ever coded. Sylvester Stallone. Jason Statham. Jet Li. Dolph Lundgren. These are names that deserve…
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I’m a Video Editor, And Valve’s New Film-Making Software Could Change Everything
I make movies for a living. I shoot, I edit, I transcode, I color correct. J, K and L are as intuitive to me as WASD is to you. I went to school for it. So when I saw that Valve was releasing Source Filmmaker, their internal video editor slash 3D modeler to the public,…
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Sega Shuts Down European and Australian Offices to Focus on “Digital”
Sega first appeared to be running into trouble earlier this year. Sega of America faced layoffs, though not a total shut-down, as in the face of large losses the studio condensed its efforts onto four core series. While Sega of America is still in operation with its reduced staff, other Sega offices worldwide are proving…
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The Best Things in This Week’s Nintendo Download are Free
With free 3DS demos for Rhythm Thief & the Emperor’s Treasure and Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] in the eShop this week, no one needs to spend a single penny to have a hell of a time with this week’s Nintendo Download. Of course Zen Studios, the makers of Marvel Pinball 3D for the…
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This New Company of Heroes 2 Trailer Shows How Cold War Can Be
A new teaser trailer for next year’s strategy title Company of Heroes 2 has just arrived. And while it doesn’t feature any gameplay or show off its fancy features, the trailer does show one thing incredibly effectively: It gets cold in Russia, y’all. A narrator rather effectively intones the dire history of World War II,…
By Kate Cox
