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Game|Life Riffs On The Duke Nukem Forever Trailer

2007-12-19 10:05:54 by Susan Arendt in Game | Life
 
...absurdly musclebound hypermacho game heroes that this just feels stale. I think their best bet is to push it into parody, as if Duke Nukem was an Austin Powers figure, transported from the hair metal era and completely out of sync with the times
 
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What Were NOT Playing - Volume 13 (End-of-the-Year Edition)

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2007-12-19 21:07:38 by Tracey John in MTV Multiplayer
...absurdly stuffed with features. It even has a quasi-mmo element to it JasonCipriano: I havent started Pokemon yet - Ive never played one of them (although I did watch the cartoon everyday when I got home from high school for no apparent reason JasonCipriano: pretty sure Ive never admitted that publicly before StephenTotilo: Good for you....
 
Tags: jasoncipriano, stephentotilo, psp release, psp, psp games, games, tactics games, games ahead, traceyjohn
 
 
 
 
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Christmas In Connecticut: Selected Scenes

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2007-12-28 20:50:41 by Chris Kohler in Game | Life
...absurdly precocious, currently obsessed with Alvin and the Chipmunks. She breaks from singing Chipmunk songs in her head briefly, just long enough to dig out from under the tree a Nintendo DS and games, Catz, Dogz, Cooking Mama, to show me. "It's pink!" she says, unnecessarily. I have the white one, I say. "You have the Nintendo DS? That...
 
Tags: mom sings, wii, mom, wii sports, medium lead guitar, guitar game, video games, rock band controllers, favorite cousin
 
 
 
 
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Games For 2008: Starcraft 2

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2008-01-07 09:05:14 by Jim Rossignol in Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Making False Idols For 2008
...absurdly appropriate to their nature as games designers that I had to stand in front of a mirror and smack myself around the face to avoid reproducing it here. Its also the /perfect/ introduction to a piece about Starcraft 2 , and its painful to have promised not to use it Anyway, that same office is where I sat down and played Starcraft 2,...
 
Tags: games, starcraft, games designers, blizzards office, office, perfect introduction, pants offa, multiplayer session, move
 
 
 
 
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Peggle Coming to Xbox Live Arcade

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2008-01-09 07:06:56 by Susan Arendt in Game | Life
...absurdly addictive Peggle will be coming to the Xbox Live Arcade and is tentatively scheduled for a Q2 release. Well, didn't take long for that prediction to come true, now did it Peggle by itself is roughly as addictive as chocolate-covered crack cocaine with MSG sprinkles on top--the addition of Achievements will likely require some kind of...
 
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Assassin's Creed Review

2008-01-15 13:37:00 by Mike in Graduate Games Blog: Free Game Demos, Reviews, Gaming Features and more
 
...Absurdly gorgeous game. The historical world is accurately depicted and flawlessly rendered. Animation is superb Cons: The in-between sci-fi story driven segments don't look nearly as good and I could have used more variety in the 3 cities... but the graphics are stellar Sound/Music: 9/10 Pros: Voice Acting is up to snuff, sound...
 
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EDITORS VIEW: Gaming vs News Media

2008-02-04 20:54:22 by Editor in N4G.com : News Feed : gaming
 
The mainstream news medias coverage of games is so absurdly out-of-touch that it is in danger of damaging its own reputation. Colin Campbell reports
 
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The Smash Bros. Whine And Cheese Party

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2008-02-05 15:22:17 by Chris Kohler in Game | Life
...absurdly large grains that the human body is incapable of digesting, and like four bottles of wine We," I announced as I struggled to get the cork out of the first bottle of Yellow Tail, "are going to shit classiness And was the game worth all the trouble? As you might expect from Smash Bros. , there was a lot of whining and cheesing (and...
 
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Mass Effect Hitting PCs in May

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2008-02-12 17:42:10 by Chris in Gaming Today
...absurdly long period of time between releases of the Halo games on Xbox and on PC, I wasnt expecting Mass Effect till we had a new president, at the very least. But today weve gotten word that Mass Effect is coming to PC this May The game has been optimized for PC, with a new, fully customizable control scheme which will allow you to hot key...
 
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Status Update: Jim at GDC

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2008-02-20 07:54:10 by Jim Rossignol in Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Making False Idols For 2008
...absurdly debauched modernity The really astounding thing about this event is that it makes it quite clear just how many really bright people there are who basically just want to enjoy their lives by spending them making games. Bright people should really be using their giant brains to fix the sky or create cures for hiccups, but Im...
 
Tags: people, game people, bright people, game developers conference, half hour conversation, bright shiny world, gigantic computer chums, lies ahead, giant brains