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Mar
4
Uwe Boll versus Indiana Jones: Spielberg is clearly terrified
Category: Wii Xbox 360 Playstation 3 | 
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This is news that’s been floating around for a while, but it’s too funny not to post. Uwe Boll, the controversial movie maker whose films are often reviled by gamers and non-gamers alike, has chosen to pit his latest opus Postal against one of this year’s biggest releases — Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of […]
Mar
4
[’Roboto-chan!’ is a fortnightly column, sometimes by a mysterious individual who goes by the moniker of Kurokishi. And sometimes not. The column covers videogames that feature robots and the pop-cultural folklore surrounding them. This edition covers the the recent release of yet another Armored Trooper VOTOMS game and the developer responsible for its creation.]
Developing mecha […]
Mar
4
I’ll say right away that partaking in the nerdy delights of OmiyaSoft’s Culdcept Saga is a real pleasure for those that are used to the complex rules of trading card games, though it’s definitely not for everyone. Its gameplay, a funky blend of card games like Magic: The Gathering and board games like Monopoly, requires […]
Mar
4
Who says a videogame needs to be on a TV? Or played with a controller? Or have graphics?
2-XL may have been technically marketed as a toy, but it was really a de facto game console: each available 2-XL cassette tape included different themes, questions, and storylines, all based around the central idea of having the […]
Mar
4
Game Ads from the Days of Yore: 1-900-Game-Codes
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This week’s Game Ads from the Days of Yore goes into the world of comic book advertising. As video games became popular, they over took the ad space that toys once held in comic books. I picked this ad simply because it demonstrates both one of the many types of odd game ads there were […]
Mar
4
Not a RAW deal at all: THQ offers 3 PS2 WWE classics on the cheap
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Does wrestling still have as much of an audience as it did years ago? I can only speak for myself, of course, but I haven’t watched Monday Night Raw in nearly five years. However, in high school, I spent countless weekday afternoons playing the PS1 games WWF SmackDown! and WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role […]
Mar
4
Ultimate PS3 setup, meet ultimate console: A match made in heaven
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The ultimate A/V setup featured a few weeks ago was an awe inspiring thing of beauty, but in spite of having enough tech to keep even the most voracious gearhound happy it was missing a few key components, namely a Wii and an Xbox 360. Thankfully, for people that can afford to spend the obscene […]
Mar
4
Banning Bully will make children magically stop being evil wankers
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Big shock — Bully: Scholarship Edition is released today for the Wii and Xbox 360 and right on cue, here come the parade of prehistoric scaremongers who want to see it banned under that age-old veil of protecting the children. Oh save the children, because it’s not like they invented bullying in the first place!
Various […]
Mar
4
Now, this is less of a confirmation and more of a slip, but it does give us hope. According to Gizmodo, Sony let it slip in a recent comment to MCV that in-game chat is on the way.
“Our momentum will continue with the introduction of in-game communication in the summer, firmware update 2.4 and the […]
Mar
4
Dexter getting a game port, don’t get excited just yet
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That’s right, the show featuring a questionably moral blood spatter analyst with a jones for brutal violence, loved by many and edited into oblivion to band-aid the gaping wound left by the writer’s guild strike, is being turned into a game. Exciting right? You are excited now yes?! Well, I hate to be the bearer […]