Archive for October, 2008

New Game Releases: 10/26 – Nov. 1

Tweet Another great week in gaming with the likes of LittleBigPlanet, Fallout 3, Guitar Hero World Tour, Ninjatown and MotorStorm: Pacific Rift being released this week. I’m already losing enough sleep as it is playing Fable 2, SOCOM and COD: WaW Beta, but I think I can fit in one or two more games for [...]

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DJ Hero Confirmed to be in Production

Tweet In an interview with Joystiq, Brian Bright, project director of Guitar Hero: World Tour, confirmed that Activision are working on DJ Hero. From Joystiq: JS: Didn’t you say you’re already working on another music game? BB: Activision’s doing a DJ Hero game, and I can’t comment on what we’re doing. But… we’re working on [...]

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The Watercooler – One-Week Anniversary Special

Tweet That’s right, it has been a full week of nonstop Watercooler action. Usually we feature the best thing I saw on the Internet in the past 24 hours since the previous Watercooler, but because this is a special occasion, I will instead be sharing with you the best thing I’ve seen on the Internet [...]

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Zombie Invasion Eats Away at WoW Subscribers, Unplayable Content Plagues Azeroth

Tweet You know how you always say that you want developers to try new things? Be creative. Live on the edge. Show you stuff you’ve never seen before. Yea? Well, you’re full a shit. You don’t want that — you want to feel at home, comfortable, and in command — and you’re not the only [...]

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Forget Yo’ Street Dates! GameStop to Sell Call of Duty: World At War Early

Tweet Hot off of the Fallout 3 street date news from a few days ago, it seems that GameStop is following Wal-Mart’s lawless ways and is setting out to break street dates- with a twist. According to PlanetXbox360, GameStop will be selling Call of Duty: World of War (note: Stop calling it, COD5, it’s not [...]

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Mushroom Men: Spore Wars Bosses Take More Than Just Three Jumps on the Head

Tweet Mushroom Men: Spore Wars is one of the few Wii games on the horizon that caught my eye when I was at PAX. In my hands-on time with the game it seemed like a pretty solid platformer with a good sense of humor. What I have for you readers today is a closer look [...]

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The London Expo 08: Games, Queues and Stormtroopers

Tweet The MCM London Expo has grown incredibly in size since its first iteration, and this year was no exception. I attended the Expo last year, and it was the biggest exposition I had ever been to, and this year it was at least three times as big. ‘MCM’ stands for ‘Movies, Comics, Media’, but [...]

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DS Review: Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood

Tweet The world of Sonic is a world of fast platforming and loop-de-loops. So how well does it fare when inserted into the RPG mould? Can BioWare break the current trend of Sonic games and make something good? Hit the jump for the full review.

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The Watercooler – 26 October 2008

Tweet Do you know what time it is? It’s time for The Watercooler again. This happens every day at the same time, so you shouldn’t really be surprised. This is the best thing you will see on the Internet today, mainly because it is the best thing I saw on the Internet yesterday. Eventually, I [...]

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Ripten’s Gears of War Movie Poster Fan Art

Tweet So yeah, I was bored and the lack of news coming over the wire convinced me to pop open Adobe Photoshop and mess around for a while. One thing lead to another, and a few hours later I ended up with my own little Gears of War Movie poster. Dan Landis added his two [...]

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Joker’s T-Rated Gag Gun Fatality All Gag No Gore

Tweet In the midst of all the Metacrtic user score bashing, you may have missed out on some fairly important Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe news. The Joker’s Gag Gun fatality that took the internet by storm has been reworked due to ESRB Teen rating scrutiny.

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Schappert: Xbox LIVE is a Great Way to Market Smaller Budget Games

Tweet In a new interview, Xbox LIVE boss, John Schappert, tells us that Xbox LIVE offers a way to get games out in front of consumers that would have a difficult time doing so via the traditional retail channels.

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Amazing Spider-Man Upper Body Tattoo Will Tingle Your Spider-Sense

Tweet There are geeks and then there are uber geeks, but tattooing your entire upper body to look like a tear-away Spider-Man costume grants you access to a category that is all your own. This guy is a super human geek with great power, and with great power comes … oh you know the rest. [...]

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The Watercooler – 25 October 2008

Tweet Do you know what time it is? It’s time for The Watercooler again. This happens every day at the same time, so you shouldn’t really be surprised. This is the best thing you will see on the Internet today, mainly because it is the best thing I saw on the Internet yesterday. Eventually, I [...]

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Resistance 2 Latest Victim in Metacritic Douchey User Flames

Tweet When will it end? Shortly after we talked to Metacritic founder Marc Doyle about LittleBigPlanet’s low user score, the wrath of Sony fanboys was unleashed upon Gears of War 2′s user score as a revenge hit. It now appears that the 360 fanboys just wouldn’t stand for that, even though they seem to have [...]

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