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Apple iPhone Texas Hold’Em
Poker apps quickly became one of the most popular genres when Apple release the iPhone and App Store, and for good reason. Not only do millions of people around the world love to play poker, but it’s a great fit for the iPhone in general, as it lets people enjoy the game of poker no [...]
Continue reading...King of Fighters XII (Xbox 360) Review
Aug 12, 2009 
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Summary [ 5.5 out of 10] King of Fighters XII brings the long running mash up series into current gen but developer Ignition apparently didn’t notice as there is very little upgrading or innovation going on here. This ‘effort,’ if you can call it that, looks and plays last gen and charging $60 for this [...]
Continue reading...G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Screenshots
Jul 29, 2009 (Click to Rate!)
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In preparation for the movie release of G.I. Joe, here’s some screenshots fresh off the EA-presses for the movie tie-in-game. I’m not clawing at my wallet at the moment: If you missed it, here’s the E3 announcement trailer… did EA spend an entire 5 months on this game? I think if they had just re-skinned Fight [...]
Continue reading...Xbox 360 Broken, but Original Nintendo Still Working
Jul 29, 2009 (Click to Rate!)
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Marc Chung just sent this one in, got a kick out of it:
Continue reading...Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Xbox 360) Review
Jul 27, 2009 
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Summary [8.5/10 (for fans) 6.5/10 (for anyone else)] Set in 1991 the Ghostbusters game effectively serves as a de facto third movie This is a cannon installment in the series which will apparently be relevant to the actual third movie. Written by Dan Ackroyd and Harold Ramis, the game finds the Ghostbusters thriving and happy working [...]
Continue reading...Army of Two: 40th Day – Army Co-Op, Take 2
Jul 14, 2009 (Click to Rate!)
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I can only describe the first Army of Two game as a “huge let down” — the game was dripping with potential, but due to either a lack of time or vision the team couldn’t pull it all together into the co-op insanity and wonderment that it was suppose to be. You ended up with [...]
Continue reading...Terminator Salvation (Xbox 360) Review
Jul 5, 2009 (Click to Rate!)
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Summary [5.5 out of 10] Terminator Salvation is a terrible game whose unfinished feel, technical hickups and terribly scripted sequences all punish the player for trying to play it. Terminator Salvation has the feel of a game that only had 8 months of development time in order to make it’s launch along-side the movie. I wouldn’t [...]
Continue reading...Wii MotionPlus + Grand Slam Tennis = Garbage
Jul 2, 2009 (Click to Rate!)
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Ok so I bought into the hype-machine that is everything-Nintendo and plopped down my $19.99 for a Wii MotionPlus when it came out and along with the only other highly rated Wii MotionPlus-enabled game that launched with it: Grand Slam Tennis. Here’s my single sentence description of the experience for everyone that was curious “Was it [...]
Continue reading...The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (Xbox 360) Review
May 30, 2009 (Click to Rate!)
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Summary [7.5 out of 10] Assault on Dark Athena is a great followup to the award-winning Escape from Butcher Bay title landing just-shy of perfect due to what I can only describe as a lack of “balls”. The well paced levels, interesting NPCs and fun melee combat are all back, but instead of bumping the Riddick [...]
Continue reading...Just Cause 2 – Just Cause + Mercenaries 2 + Awesome
May 29, 2009 (Click to Rate!)
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I liked the original Just Cause, I mostly liked Mercenaries 2 (loved the idea, but game + bugs == annoying)… combining the two together to bring you an out-of-control, over the top fucking awesome-sauce complete with Grapple + Parachute… I haven’t been so jazzed for an “out of control action-fest” in a while like this:
Continue reading...3D Realms + EPIC = DNF Was a Guerilla Marketing Scheme (The Chair Story)
May 7, 2009 (Click to Rate!)
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Laurence Hartje just sent me a link over to Charlie Wiederhold’s blog where he reiterates the “Chair Story”. We were talking about 3D Realms’s announced death and thought things started to sound fishy when Laurence sent this along. At first glance “The Chair Story” sounded stupid, but it was from a 3D Realms insider from back [...]
Continue reading...Terminator Salvation Gameplay Video and Screenshots
May 6, 2009 (Click to Rate!)
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The bar for movie-tie-in games has officially been raised. In my estimation it began officially with Wanted: Weapons of Fate, right before that the Bond tie-in games were still a little weak, but after Wanted we had Wolverine and now Terminator that are both looking like pretty solid B/B+ games from what I’m seeing. The [...]
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Aug 13, 2009
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