Archive for October, 2008

STOP THE PRESSES! Prince of Persia Music Will Have Heavy Eastern Influence

Tweet Prince of Persia games have a history of being an all-around awesome gaming experience (unless you happen to be playing on PSP). So it’s not surprising that the music also excels in quality. A mix of traditional eastern instruments with a dash of the all-time American favorite electric guitar and some orchestral flair gives [...]

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New Left 4 Dead “Check List” Commercial Set to Zombify Your TV Starting November 8th

Tweet With a reported 10 million dollar advertising budget (half of which is said to be for television spots) Valve is doing everything they can to make sure you and your friends are ready to kick some zombie ass. The game hits store shelves in the US on November 18th, but a boat load of [...]

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WoW Lich King Midnight Release: Blizzard Makes You Their Lich

Tweet It’s Blizzard’s World, we just live in it. To kick-off their millions-strong graduation to the hard stuff (level 70 and up), Blizzard is holding midnight release parties Nov 13 in Austin, New York, Anaheim, and San Francisco, featuring developers who will sign your game, plus extra copies of the Lich King Collector’s Edition. International [...]

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New Guitar Hero: On Tour Commercial is Enough to Make a Grown Man Cringe

Tweet Seriously, who thought four grown men wearing pink dress shirts and white boxers sock sliding across a hardwood floor was a good way to market Guitar Hero: World Tour? What type of Rock Band Group are Tony Hawk, Alex Rodriguez, Kobe Bryant, and Michael Phelps forming? A sissy band that caps off a long [...]

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The Eurogamer Expo 2008

Tweet Prince of Persia Art at the Euogamer Expo The London Games Festival 2008 is drawing to a close, and the last of the events will be happening soon. Undoubtedly the highlight of the Festival was the Eurogamer Expo, held on Tuesday the 28th and Wednesday the 29th in a large brewery building near central [...]

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LittleBigPlanet Servers Are Back Up

Tweet Kotaku reports that the LittleBigPlanet servers are back up, after a turbulent startup: The servers were switched on three days ago, only to be turned off again due to glitches. The man with the hair reports: Soon after booting up my Playstation 3 and starting up the game I was asked to download a [...]

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Fallout 3 Survival Edition is a Huge Waste of Money

Tweet Some of you may instantly reply “Duh!” to that headline, but as a fan of the Fallout series, I wanted to get it all. The Amazon exclusive ‘Survival Edition’ was a pre-order special that cost a whopping $129.99 — that’s right, a full fifty bucks more than the Collector’s Edition. While the package itself [...]

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Despite Its Absense, “Cipher Complex” Is Not Dead

Tweet There isn’t much I can really say at this point, but let’s leave it at this — the game first revealed to us all in 2006 as “Cipher Complex” is still being worked on. Those who saw promise in the early screens (like me) need to just sit tight for the time being.

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The Watercooler – 30 October 2008

Tweet The Watercooler, as always, is the best thing you will see on the Internet today, mainly because it is the best thing I saw yesterday, or since the last Watercooler at least. There is, however, the possibility that you will see tomorrow’s Watercooler today, in which case the best thing you saw today is [...]

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Yarntastic 1up Mushrooms

Tweet Behold, 1up mushrooms made from yarn! Available in four colors (two more you can see after the jump), the iconic shrooms are the work of Flickr user t0fugurl who says that she is also working on a gold one. Ooooh. I’m not exactly sure why, but I feel the need to collect one of [...]

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LOL: Misleading Xbox 360 Advertisement

Tweet Would I like to win an Xbox 360 console?? Sure!! Wait, what the hell do Super Mario and Yoshi have to do with an Xbox 360? This appears to be a University campus message board, so let’s hope the person who made this isn’t an advertising major. Sheesh. Source: flickr.com

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EA Forcing Good Behavior: Get Banned on their Forum and You’re Banned from their Games

Tweet A recent post by an EA Community Staff member on the company’s Command and Conquer message board outlines changes to their policy, stating their intent to link a gamer’s forum account to their EA gaming account. Why does this matter? Because EA is planning on banning those who get banned on their forum from [...]

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WoW Presidential Poll: Which Candidate Wins the Epic Duel for Azeroth? (Video)

Tweet You may already have a good idea which “real world” states are set to support Obama and which will likely side with McCain, but what what about the 11 million residents of Azeroth? The following four minute plus clip features funny man Rich Kuras and his quest to find out which issues matter most [...]

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Sessler Talks Reality Behind Exclusives, Lays Into New Yorker CliffyB Editorial

Tweet G4TV’s Adam Sessler shares his words of wisdom with us once again in the latest edition of Sessler’s Soapbox. The gloves come off as Adam delves into the often shady reality of exclusive content and washes it down with a tall glass of New Yorker/Gears of War kick-ass. Sessler in COG armor is enough [...]

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Paper Mega Man in Stop Motion Animated Video

Tweet The retro awesomeness you are about to witness is titled “Megaman 9 – Rockin in paper” and the creation of Nicolas Ménard. It pits a paper Mega Man in a real world adventure made up of everyday objects such as legos, cereal boxes, and a giant paper cutter. Brilliant. Maybe this will inspire Capcom [...]

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