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Jul
23
Checking recent comments on GameSetWatch often brings up some gems, and a particularly interesting comment was recently made by Craig Sams on a January 2007 GSW post about Namco arcade machine obscurities.
Sams posted a comment about Prop Cycle, Namco’s 2005 dedicated arcade machine which had the player pedaling a bicycle to collect balloons […]
Jul
23
Watchmen episodic game in works: Alan Moore shoots self, then turns in grave
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Anyone who has read Watchmen and seen 300 knows that Zack Snyder’s upcoming film adaptation of Alan Moore’s greatest graphic novel is going to suck. Nearly very single scene in the trailer is needlessly in slow-motion, Nite Owl and Silk Spectre are about ten years too young and way too slim, and 300 sucked balls […]
Jul
23
[In this analysis piece, designer Daniel Cook looks at Nintendo’s Wii Fit to examine and break down the critera that skills - such as exercising or balancing - need to have in order to be turned into video games, suggesting a blossoming of games as we discover those opportunities.]
Recently, my amazing wife picked up […]
Jul
23
Game Debate to the Death!Best Paper Mario game? [Update]
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Original post by mrdestructoid@gmail.com (Destructoid.com) and software by Elliott Back
Jul
23
The Daily Hotness: Bury me with my Nintendo! (07/23/08)
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For a second, I was really interested in being buried in a videogame themed coffin. But then I remembered that it would be pointless to get a coffin as I plan on being shot off into the Sun with fireworks strapped all over my corpse. What can I say? I want to entertain people even […]
Jul
23
Scraps: Thank you for being a friend, Estelle Getty (7/23/08)
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Yesterday, actress Estelle Getty — best known for her magnificent portrayal of spicy old bat Sophia Petrillo on the 80s television sitcom Golden Girls — passed away. She was 84.
Obviously, we spent most of the day mourning her loss. But we couldn’t pass up these videogame tidbits:
Join the swinger’s club! Maybe Bionic Command Rearmed comes […]
Jul
23
Jeff Minter set to torment … I mean dazzle us with another XBLA game
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Yeah, I don’t know either. It would seem Space Giraffe mastermind Jeff Minter was unsatisfied with the reception his Tempest ripoff with llama sounds other XBLA title received, so he’s put on his tie-dyed apron and popped another suckcake into the oven for us.
It’s called Gridrunner +++, and it’s headed for Xbox Live Arcade at […]
Jul
23
Triggerheart Exelica Enhanced coming to PS2 with Faintear playable
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If you’re among those to have been disappointed by the news that Triggerheart Exelica was on the list of games Microsoft would be sweeping under the XBLA rug, here’s some sunshine for you. According to a magazine scan spotted … well, somewhere, the game is on its way to PS2 this Winter, with the title […]
Jul
23
Sam & Max Season Two getting a collectors DVD, other stuff
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Telltale Games announced today that Sam & Max, everyone’s favorite pair of anthropomorphic animal investigators, will be getting a collectors edition DVD for their second season of downloadable episodes. This DVD will contain the five episodes that make up Season Two, along with behind-the-scenes and other special features like developer commentary and outtakes.
The Sam & […]
Jul
23
Apparently, in the future, people don’t have epilepsy. The latest information out of CVG is that the long-awaited PSN title has been severely delayed. In fact, the game “[failed] the epilepsy tests so much that it has to be re-engineered." The statement makes you wonder how many people dropped and kissed the floor while trying […]