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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Rather burnt to a crisp here, coming out of Los Angeles, and not sure I’ll be playing much of anything this weekend as I recover my mental faculties from E3. There’s still a lot left to say from what we saw down there, and it’s hard to break out of mental note-taking, since you can’t…
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Madden 13 is Mostly Law-Abiding in Its Physics—Though It Does Jaywalk at Times
If you can sit up straight and squirm in your seat at the same time, I did when I got the news Madden NFL‘s creators revealed they were going to go for it this year, with their “Infinity Engine” offering real-time physics. It is a long overdue feature, something seen even in a striver title…
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THQ Sold Out to EA Sports Because It Didn’t Break Even on UFC 3
In hindsight, it should be no surprise that THQ jettisoned its expensive exclusive license to make video games with the UFC’s imagery and fighters. The company is hurting badly and had gone through a huge, soul-searching reorganization, jettisoning its kids-stuff division and completely bailing on E3 this year as its stock price hovers around 66…
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Star Trek Boldly Goes To Your Living Room, and Looks Really Good Doing It
I was six years old when Star Trek: The Next Generation premiered. For the next seven years, I watched it every Saturday night with my parents and often, during the last two seasons, with my best friend and her parents as well. I was as nerdy as a nerdy child could be, and I loved…
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Natural Selection 2 Is a Genius Mash of Counter Strike and Starcraft
Have you ever played a real-time strategy game and wondered what life was like for the pawns you send out to battle? What if those soldiers weren’t brain-dead fighters, but could actually carry out smart decisions on their own, without you telling them to do so? Natural Selection 2 breathes life into an otherwise lonelier…
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Dominate the World by Shooting at Everything in Hybrid
The Xbox Live Summer of Arcade will be upon us soon, and one of the games coming with it is Hybrid, a multiplayer shooter from 5th Cell. I had a chance to see Hybrid in action at E3 this week, and while the frenetic combat in a tiny map (the smallest one the game had…
By Kate Cox
