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Persona 3: Official Design Works Explores the Artistic Process June 20
Persona 3 owes much of its success to the stunning work of legendary character designer Shigenori Soejima. The fan-favorite artist lends his commentary to 144 pages of character art, concept pieces and design work in Persona 3: Official Design Works, coming June 20 from UDON. UDON makes a sexy book, habitually going above and beyond…
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A Controller Solution That Strikes at the Very Core of Android Tablet Gaming
Last week I reported on Power A’s MOGA portable gaming system for Android devices, a system that allows developers to quickly integrate game pad support into their Android titles. Nyko’s PlayPad line of tablet controllers might not be quite as elegant, but they make up for that lack of style by being compatible with just…
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Ten Years of Civ II Lock The World in Perpetual War
This is kind of amazing: one gamer, over on Reddit, has been playing the same save game of Civilization II off and on for the last decade. That, itself, is not the amazing part. The amazing part is how it’s played out. The first two thousand years of his reign went more or less like…
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Gauge Your Endurance Under the Pressure of Dancey Music and Psychedelic Visuals
The music starts slow and rhythmic as you tap delicately on your iPad. Your eyes are glued to either end of the bar on screen, ensuring that your taps never linger long enough to push the bar’s limit. You occasionally glance at an appearing second gauge whose new color grows as you maintain a balance…
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Max Payne Knows How To Chill Out
In the midst of all the shoot-outs, drinking, and pill-popping, Max Payne is just another guy, you know? He wants to lounge on a pool chair and kick his feet up on the table. Except he does it in slow, bullet-time motion. Max Payne 3: Dramatic Chilling Simulator [YouTube via Reddit]
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A Guided Tour of Mists of Pandaria‘s Faction-Divided Capital City
What better way to get to know the Alliance side of Mists of Pandaria‘s Asian-themed capital city than through the eyes of a delightful Serbian guide? The Blizzard Serbian Community walks us through the expansion pack’s unique answer to a sanctuary city. Previous World of Warcraft expansion packs have all included some sort of dual-faction…
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I Can’t Believe Skylanders Giants Still Won’t Let Me Jump
I love Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure. I love the toys. I love the colorful world and quirky characters. I love having characters that store their progress and can be transferred from PC to 3DS to console. The only thing I hated was the inability for the characters to jump. Some of these characters have wings, mind…
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This Transforming Stick Wants to Change the Way You Play Fighting Games
While other hardware manufacturers focus on releasing high-quality arcade fight sticks that follow the same basic formula, Nyko allows players to change everything with the Free Fighter, a $179.999 programmable fighting game controller with a singular look and a unique modular design. Though it features the same Sanwa Denshi parts all the arcade stick kids…
By Mike Fahey
