Archive for September, 2007

Table Tennis Preview: How to Smack Balls like a Rockstar

Tweet Leagues beyond Wii Sports Tennis This week Rockstar Games held an informal get-together for game journalists in the San Francisco Bay Area to hang out at a Metreon sports bar, have some drinks, and learn to play Table Tennis on the Wii.

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Party: GameCock Puts Out for Austin GDC

Tweet If the decreased number of sexy chicks at recent industry events has got you down, you can count on GameCock to pile them on after hours. We were fortunate enough to get an invite to their party at Fado Irish Pub this past Thursday night. I think they may have mentioned games…once or twice, [...]

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Xbox 360 Review – Stranglehold

Tweet “Face Off against the Triads with style.” John Woo has shaped cult cinema for years now. First making his big splash with the film A Better Tomorrow in 1986, Woo would be launched to a new tier of success (along with star Chow Yun Fat) within the Hong Kong movie making industry. Woo’s style [...]

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Xbox 360 Review – Stuntman: Ignition

Tweet “Lights, cameras, cue the exploding monkeys, and… action!” For all the dramatic action, so carefully scripted and staged in Stuntman: Ignition, the game still uses the implausible concept that you are a professional stunt driver who is completely uninterested in learning the stunts ahead of time.

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LAIR Review

Tweet “Crash and Burn” As I begin playing LAIR for the first time on thing immediately pops into my head, “why the hell can’t I turn off the Six Axis?” I’m not a big fan of the six axis controllers, in fact I thought it wasn’t a good idea when they released it for the [...]

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