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May
10
So, after my recent post on GameTap adding a bunch of Neo Geo titles, I got a really interesting email from Matt Matthews, he of Curmudgeon Gamer fame, and he kindly allowed me to share our email conversation here on GSW, because it’s pertinent to game preservation, and he makes some good points. Opinions […]
May
10
Osu! Tatake! Ouendan! 2 footage; touching is confusingly stimulating
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The original Osu! Tatake! Ouendan! ushered in an era of acceptable male cheerleading the likes of which hasn't been seen since the 1989 Rose Bowl between the Ball State Nancies and the University of South Carolina Anthropomorphic Phalluses. The sequel looks to reinvigorate the Japanese obsession with all things pom and pom, by giving people […]
May
10
Crackdown DLC; video shot the radio star with a rocket launcher [UPDATE]
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According to your priest, masturbating while rubbing up against your Xbox 360 like a kitten in heat is a sin, but thankfully, the Internet is as hedonistic as Sodom, and Destructoid fully encourages you to "physically stimulate your genitals" while watching these HD videos of the new content coming to everyone's favorite Halo 3 […]
May
10
Calling All Cars has arrived; PS3 gamers rejoice
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PlayStation 3 fans rejoice; the wait is over. Calling All Cars is upon us. In a recent press release, Sony confirmed that it will indeed be released this Thursday (which was a few hours ago). Read on, and release those pent up tears of joy!
Play cops 'n' robbers on your PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) system […]
May
10
PC Gamer UK Gets Seamy In Second Life
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Tim Edwards kindly points me to a new PC Gamer UK feature posted on C&VG, discussing some of the more suspect sexual practices in online world Second Life (text somewhat NSFW, obviously), and with notable timing given recent controversy over explicit content in the world.
Writer Graham Smith explains ruefully: “Sex in Second Life […]
May
10
Hellgate: London payment plan revealed, some gamers still icing their nuts
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In case anybody was wondering, Flagship Studios hasn't let up on those swift kicks in the balls. We've known for a while that there were going to be two tiers in Hellgate: London, depending on whether or not players paid the montly subscription. Well, it seems that Games for Windows magazine has the scoop: the […]
May
10
Accent Core controls announced — guaranteed to create hilarious YouTube videos
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So the other day I mentioned Guilty Gear: Accent Core for the Wii. Now, IGN brings word of what the controls for the Wii are going to be — and let me say, I want to cry after reading their description.
With this control scheme, you use the nunchuk analog stick to move your character and […]
May
10
COLUMN: Game Collector’s Melancholy – Kenji Eno
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[‘A Game Collector’s Melancholy’ is a bi-weekly column by Jeffrey Fleming that follows the subtle pleasures and gnawing anxieties of video game collecting. This week we take a look at the iconoclastic game designer Kenji Eno.]
Kenji Eno founded Warp, his small, independent game studio in 1994. Coming from a background in music, Eno wanted to […]
May
10
Game theorist Jesper Juul has just posted an article from a forthcoming academic journal, named ‘Swap Adjacent Gems to Make Sets of Three: A History of Matching Tile Games’, and it does a creditable job of summing up the influences and path of the ‘match three’ genre.
This actually extends the project from an earlier […]
May
10
WoW Report: Questing Through Hellfire Peninsula
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We talked about Hellfire Peninsula in our Burning Crusade report. Hellfire Peninsula is in Outland and is where you will be doing most of your questing once you pass through the Dark Portal. So in this week’s WoW Report we will go through some of the more interesting quests in Hellfire Peninsula.
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