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Apr
22
[Our sister programming mag/website Dr Dobb’s Journal has been running the Dr. Dobb’s Challenge game competition in association with Microsoft Visual Studio, with $10,000 in prizes. There was an initial $1,000 ‘First Month Challenge’ prize for modding the downloadable Windows game - and here’s contest organizer Mathew Kumar outlining the best entries and the […]
Apr
22
[“Why We Play” is a new weekly column by freelance writer and HardCasual blogger Chris Plante that discusses how video games benefit us when we are away from them, in the real world, and what brings us back. This time - a look at some harsh criticism of a gamer upset when her favorite […]
Apr
22
Game Debate to the Death!Favorite Mario Kart track?
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In the last debate we finished our discussion of the Halo series’ best multiplayer maps. When asked which Halo 3 level was your favorite, it became clear that most of you actually weren’t that big a fan of the game compared to the other two Halo games. The one thing that didn’t seem to need […]
Apr
22
Standalone version of NFL Head Coach 09 to be released after all
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Here’s some good news for the few of you who actually wanted to put your football coaching skills to the test without springing for the 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition of Madden NFL 09. Contrary to all information that we had hitherto heard, it turns out that EA will now be putting out NFL Head Coach […]
Apr
22
Nintendo uses Mario and NYC cabs to promote Mario Kart Wii
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New York is a tough town. You’ve got to assert yourself if you want to get anywhere in the Big Apple, and I mean that literally when it comes to our great city’s taxicabs. If you’re meek like me, and you have trouble hailing cabs, don’t fret! On Thursday, April 24th, from 8 to 10 […]
Apr
22
Gaming’s Guilty Pleasures: Collector’s editions
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[Editor’s note: I hate to admit it, but I suffer from wanting collector’s edition of videogames too. I’m more controlling than poor Kryptinite here, but I do break down every so often. I’ll be happily getting the collector’s edition of GTA IV next Tuesday and will promptly asphyxiate myself with the duffle bag when I […]
Apr
22
Heaven forbid we let Splatterhouse hog the spotlight, it’s only fair that we illuminate the revival of Earthworm Jim as well. With Interplay rising from the ashes, we knew that it wouldn’t be long before the supersuited invertebrate would make his return, and today is the day that firm plans for franchise necromancy are revealed.
Jim’s […]
Apr
22
Expelliarmus! EA announces Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince videogame
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I’m sure many of you are die-hard fans of the Harry Potter books, and if you’re like me, finishing the last page of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was an emotional, bittersweet experience. It almost felt like a chapter of my life — one that had begun when a best friend first recommended Harry […]
Apr
22
Oh my God! I don’t care that Splatterhouse 2 was one of the most frustrating gaming experiences of my life — any title that features telekinetic hanging fetus zombies that you chainsaw to death is the pinnacle of videogame achievement. The news that a current-gen Splatterhouse game is actually being made has caused me to […]
Apr
22
Cards of Duty: CoD gets a card game … somehow
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Well I wasn’t expecting this. Yes, it’s a wartime FPS, in card form! Usually the realm of wizards and goblins, the Call of Duty real-time card game brings guns and Russian terrorists to the world of card-based dueling.
The premise for the game is fast-paced play, in which there are no turns taken and everything happens […]