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May
21
Super Smash Bros. DOJO ready to be oogled, poked with sticks
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Following last week's confusion regarding runes, numbers and other things that confuse Jim Sterling, (who?) we're happy to report that the official site for Super Smash Bros. Brawl is up and running today, instead of 70 more days from now.
Aside from a rather impressive list of musicians contributing to this much-anticipated Wii title, […]
May
21
The New York Times published an intriguing article over the weekend entitled ‘Why Work Is Looking More Like a Video Game’, which tries to point out that games can teach software a lot of things about motivation and usability - or something like that?
Of course, you only have to wait for the first paragraph […]
May
21
Assassin’s Creed: Limited Edition version to be announced today
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Something tells me I should have used the Captain Obvious graphic for this, but whatevs. Surprising no one, IGN reports that Ubisoft plans to announce a "limited edition" version of Assassin's Creed today, to be available later in the year.
What does an extra $10 get you? A specialized tin case, an Altair (you […]
May
21
The drought is over: Geometry Wars: Galaxies coming to the Wii and DS
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Yeah, I know — the title of this is absolutely ludicrous. First of all, what drought? Secondly, am I saying that the Xbox 360 system seller, Geometry Wars is coming to not one, but two Nintendo consoles? Impossible!
Nintendo Power is reporting that Kuju Entertainment (the folks behind the GameCube game that was supposed to be […]
May
21
Over at Eurogamer, Alec Meer has been taking a close look at Ageia’s PhysX cards, on the occasion of the release of CellFactor: Revolution, which is “…a game originally intended to be a full-blooded celebration of PhysX.”
He makes some good points about the hardware physics card solution (though there’s also a software SDK with […]
May
21
New screens of Zack and Wiki: Quest for Ba … oh, hell with it: Treasure Island
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Our pals at Capcom have sent over some new screens of their upcoming Wii title, Zack and Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure. This is the game that was formerly known as Treasure Island Z, which I thought was a perfectly good title; the game contains treasures, an island, and the its lead character's name […]
May
21
You know how it works. With the help of each other, try to figure out all of the disguised video game covers. They all share a common theme that, once solved, can help you figure out the harder ones. This week has mostly easy video game covers, but I tried to disguise a few of […]
May
21
As far as Dave Karraker, the man behind the media curtain at Sony is concerned, all the bad publicity that Sony has faced is all just one big misunderstanding on our part. Luckily for you, he's ready to fill those educational gaps you've acquired, for a cool $600 or so.
During a "shoot the bull" session […]
May
21
Why We Need More Boring Games
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Over at Gamasutra, ’serious games’ creator Ian Bogost is making the case that video games should be more mundane, particularly discussing of Nintendo’s Brain Age: “It’s certainly a very different kind of game from Halo or even Miyamoto’s own Zelda series, games that allow the player to inhabit complex fantasy worlds. Instead, much of […]
May
21
New Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s tracks revealed; welcome to the Hagar era
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Gamers absolutely love the Guitar Hero franchise. It simultaneously satisfies their innate desires to rock things in ways generally attributed to hurricanes, while filling the void in their lives reserved primarily for shmups, X-Treme Needlepoint and any other activity that causes spiral fracturing of the metacarpals.
With that said, the track list for the upcoming […]