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Jan
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In the PC gaming world, there are about a million choices on what case to buy. Do you buy a store bought PC? Not me. Do you build it? Of course. Do you cut and slave to mod out your own case so that you have something original? Well… It sounds good until you actually […]
Jan
16
The Advertising Standards Authority — the UK-based advertising group that removed posters for Burnout in London last year — has banned the above commercial for Midway’s not-very-good shooting game, Stranglehold. The commercial sees a digital representation of Chow Yun Fat running around with criminals, all guns blazing — and it was just too much for […]
Jan
16
[Andrew Doull is an IT manager from New Zealand who spent the last 5 and a half years working in the United Kingdom. He’s just emigrated to Sydney, Australia, and spends his free time developing Unangband, a rogue-like game, and blogging at Ascii Dreams. He recently covered the Edinburgh Interactive Festival for Gamasutra magazine […]
Jan
16
People turn into animals and God makes them race: I’m a horse now!
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Reader Kariomart emailed me with the above video, explaining that he was unsure if the entire concept was a joke or if this was a serious, sincere venture. The game in question is called The Zoo Race, and is a Christian game somehow based on Noah’s Ark, except people in a library turn into animals […]
Jan
16
Big Huge Games, with the latest big huge title was “Catan,” however the lead designer of both Oblivion and Morrowind has come out of retirement to help work on the latest project that was already scheduled to be published by THQ.
Since the two companies have already been working together on some RPG-like project for a […]
Jan
16
In what is one of the most surprising video game related stories so far this year a politician, Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell, isn’t irrationally calling for an ban on violent video games like others before him. Instead, the Governor is advocating in a series of PSAs that parents use the ESRB’s video game ratings […]
Jan
16
Rock Band DLC for January accidentally revealed, includes Oasis, Rush, and more
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Thanks to a lovely SNAFU over at Xbox.com, the Rock Band downloadable content for the remainder of the month has been revealed. While the listings for the next two weeks have since disappeared, you can expect the following:
Week of January 22, 2008Oasis Pack includes songs by Oasis including "Don’t Look Back in Anger," "Live Forever," […]
Jan
16
Well, you gotta give Editor-in-Chief Dan "Shoe" Hsu some credit for stirring up a pot lately, with his editorials in Electronic Gaming Monthly. Though you got to wonder if he’s really going to bring the EGM ship down by trying to be so transparent, and so hardlined with his point of view.
What happened to the EGM of […]
Jan
16
[Just a quick note - if you’re not a member of the press, or an IGF finalist, or a speaker, or a CA, and haven’t bought your GDC pass yet, GameSetWatch’s eagle-eyed corporate overlords point out that now might be a good time to do so, before the price zooms up and conks you […]
Jan
16
Ladies and gentlemen, what you are about to view is footage of perhaps the most dangerous Nintendo fan who ever lived. While the delay of Super Smash Bros. has affected many of us in different ways, no man had taken it worse than this wretched soul.
After this video, in which he promised to be spending […]