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Rent Video Games
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Of all the events at this year’s Otakon, the American debut of Eminence was undoubtedly the highlight. (We had the whole thing on video, but apparently magnets and DVC tapes don’t play well together). If you didn’t know, Eminence is a new-wave contemporary orchestra who specialize in videogame and anime music, and are responsible for […]
Aug
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Back to HDRLying, then, and a new editorial which is named ‘Manuals and Tutorials in the years to come’, and looks at a simple, but perennial dilemma: “For the most part, people seem to find tutorials intrusive and irritating if they’re too structured not integrated into the game, but find the game intensely unapproachable […]
Aug
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The future truly has arrived: DDR does Chocolate Rain
Category: Wii Xbox 360 Playstation 3 | 
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I’ve never made a secret of my distaste for memes. They are just below puns on the Idle-Brooks Official Scale of Humor, and with more repetition they only become more annoying. As they are almost exclusively the realm of fourteen year olds whose definition of the term "irony" actually hotlinks back to a video of […]
Aug
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Capcom agrees: Video games and Allah just don’t mix
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Apparently you can joke about everything from violent death methods to sexual preferences in video games, but the moment God comes into it, we got trouble. In this case it’s Allah that stirred things up, as reported today by Gamasutra. It seems that Capcom has removed an Islamic phrase from the upcoming Wii title Zack […]
Aug
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Dust off your copy of Talladega Nights: Lair delayed until September 4
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Remember last week when associate producer Ryan Hamlyn said the upcoming PlayStation 3 title Lair was finished, even going as far as to say it was in manufacturing? Psych — just kidding!
It appears that even Hamlyn didn’t see this one coming, as the game’s release date has been pushed back to September 4. Blame it […]
Aug
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Dust off your copy of Talladega Nights: Lair delayed until September 2
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Remember last week when associate producer Ryan Hamlyn said the upcoming PlayStation 3 title Lair was finished, even going as far as to say it was in manufacturing? Psych — just kidding!
It appears that even Hamlyn didn’t see this one coming, as the game’s release date has been pushed back to September 4. Blame it […]
Aug
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NASCAR and Wii fans collide in Nintendo’s exclusive contest
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As our good friend (and avid circular-racing enthusiast) Dale North mentioned a few weeks ago, Nintendo is sponsoring NASCAR driver Greg Biffle’s #16 Ford Fusion at a couple up and coming races on the Nextel circuit. According to their official site, they are now offering the chance to win an all expense paid trip to […]
Aug
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[As reviews editor, I’m constantly on the watch for talented people who might put me out of a job so that I might find ways to ruin them before they get the chance. Rylan is definitely of that sort — a lad of only seven whose review of THQ’s Ratatouille puts an entire industry of […]
Aug
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Friday, my only day at San Diego Comic-Con. I contracted necrotizing fasciitis from the Slave Labor Graphics booth during that evening, and so had to be airlifted out that night, but adventures were plentiful during my short stay. Embarrassing, deeply wounding adventures.
My first foray into the seething morass led me to to the LucasArts booth, […]
Aug
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Capcom in trouble again, forced to remove Islamic phrase from Zack and Wiki
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According to this GamePolitics article, Capcom’s racial insensitivity isn’t focused solely on African villagers, and that the House of Mega Man is truly an equal opportunity offender. Unlike the Resident Evil 5 issue though, the matter of Capcom vs the most controversial religious group in our modern world seems to have been settled.
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