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Tales of Monkey Island: Episode Three Impressions – In The Belly Of The Beast
We’re pretty much at the midpoint in Tales of Monkey Island episodes. At the risk of spoilers, let’s just say things are looking pretty icky for Guybrush Threepwood. Being inside a manatee will do that – and I don’t just mean in its mouth, I mean deep inside its bowels. Our smart-talking hero finds himself…
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Putting Up Airballs — and Making Them — in NBA 2K10
2K Sports‘ NBA game, like its NHL counterpart, comes to the Wii for the first time with this year’s edition. This trailer gives a look at the motion controls which, for the most part, seem reasonably intuitive. The jump shot’s a no brainer – Wiimote and nunchuk up, flip the ‘mote, splash, as Kobe Bryant…
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International Relations And Video Games — An Almost-Interview
For four years, I studied everything about East Asian security dilemmas and conflicts in post-Soviet Russia. What good is my international relations major if I can’t inflict it on a game developer? Luckily, Sion Lenton — Executive Producer at Codemasters on Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising — was a good sport and let “Professor Glasser” talk…
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Get Your Free Halo 3: O.D.S.T. Premium Theme
Your Xbox 360 looks fine while playing Halo 3: O.D.S.T., but what about when you stop playing and return to the dashboard? Microsoft has you covered with a mostly free premium theme. It’s a new Halo game, and to celebrate, there’s a new Halo theme, featuring the sights of O.D.S.T.’s New Mombasa. It’s yours free…
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It’s A Beaterator Musical Artist Montage
Sure, 12-year-olds can use it, but what about recording artist turned Law and Order actior Ice-T? See T and other members of the musical community get their Beaterator on. Is it possible to over-stress the importance of Rockstar’s upcoming music creator for the PSP? I think this video proves that yes, it definitely is. It’s…
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Assassin’s Creed 2 – There’s An App For That
It may not be the iPhone game, but iPhone users can definitely get something of an AC2 fix with the Assassin’s Creed 2 Experience iPhone app. The Assassin’s Creed 2 Experience is a completely free iPhone App released by Ubisoft that keeps fans up to date on the latest news, screenshots, and trailers on their…
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Need For Speed Twitter Missions Could Score You A BMW
Complete Need for Speed missions on Twitter and you could win a shiny new BMW M3 courtesy of Electronic Arts. Five days, five missions. EA is posting special tasks for fans of Need for Speed: Shift (or fans of BMWs I suppose) over at the Need for Speed Twitter. Completing the missions enters players into…
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Halo Composer Wrote Jingles for Flintstones Vitamins, Tidy Cats
A profile by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, calling Marty O’Donnell the John Williams of the Halo series, turns up this tidbit: He wrote the Flintstones Vitamins jingle (which you now have stuck in your head) and his kids sang the chorus. That’s not news to hardcore fans (it’s all over the Halo wikis), but O’Donnell’s past…
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Onyxia Is Back And Badder Than Ever
World of Warcraft patch 3.2.2 hit the servers this morning with a resounding roar, as the dragon Onyxia is reborn, ready to take level 80 players down several painful pegs. The latest patch brings the terror back to Azeroth, returning the mighty dragon to her former glory. What was until recently possible for 2-3 people…
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The Earth Has Officially Fallen
Fallen Earth‘s self-title post-apocalyptic MMO goes live today, with a retail version hitting store shelves by the end of the month for folks averse to downloading large amounts of data. The beta testing is over, the Earth has been destroyed, and the monkeys are a great deal more intelligent now in Fallen Earth, the post-apocalyptic…
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Brutal Legend: Forging The World
Enough with the goofy Jack Black-flavored promotional videos for Brutal Legend. Art director Lee Petty takes us through the process behind the building of the Brutal Legend world. Brutal Legend is definitely a beautiful game, and Lee is responsible for a great deal of that, so excuse him if he isn’t quite as dynamic as…
By Mike Fahey
