Archive for December, 2009

Tony Hawk Ride Trashed in X-Play’s Review

Tweet Warning: The teenagers you see playing Tony Hawk Ride above are not having fun. G4′s X-Play recently bombed the game with the dreaded one out of five stars review and even granted it the Golden Mullet Award for being so terrible. According to their review, the game board’s controls were so laggy and poorly-coordinated, [...]

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Boy Gets Stabbed For Playing Too Much Xbox

Tweet We sure live in a crazy world. A drunken 55-year-old Scottish woman was upset that a 13-year-old boy under her care wouldn’t stop using the Xbox and the computer, so a fight ensued that ended with the woman stabbing the boy in the stomach with a kitchen knife.

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Borderlands: Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot DLC Trailer

Tweet Due to my inability to play videogames on my broken ass television, I haven’t even played the first installment of Borderlands DLC. Once I get it up and running, you can bet I’ll check both of them out.

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Avatar Movie Observations, WoW/MMO Addiction, & Coming Clean

Tweet This post was originally going to be a review, but as Avatar’s plot unfolded, it became clear to me that I could no longer put off discussing a year long personal struggle in my life that may prove helpful to others out there going through a similar situation. Some of the readers may have [...]

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New Site Design (Still Being Tested)

Tweet Hey everyone, Quick post here as I’m running on very little sleep at the moment. We just launched a new design and some things are still in the progress of being added. The hope was to create a much cleaner look that was easier for you to navigate and read. If you have any [...]

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Steam’s Holiday Sale Is Ludicrous (In A Good Way)

Tweet As the most popular platform for PC gaming, you’d think that Steam would inflate their prices all the time- just because they could. Of course, the exact opposite is true; Steam’s always been fair with their prices, and I’ve never seen a game exorbitantly priced on the service. That’s why their holiday sale is [...]

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GTA IV: Lost and the Damned Coming to PC

Tweet As you can see in the above image, a French PC magazine has revealed that the Grand Theft Auto IV downloadable content “The Lost and the Damned” will be coming to the PC. It’s unlikely that a PC magazine would run a feature on a game that’s months old and not on PC, so [...]

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Take-Two on Why GTA IV DLC Didn’t Sell Well

Tweet Grand Theft Auto IV was a huge success, both critically and commercially, scoring a 98 on Metacritic (PC version excluded) and selling over 13 million copies worldwide. And yet the two downloadable episodes, which both recieved similar critical acclaim, didn’t sell as well as hoped.

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Annoying EA Madden 2010 In-Game Pop-up Advert Seems to Have Been Removed

Tweet I reported earlier that Madden 2010 received an update which included an extremely intrusive pop-up advertisement that reared its ugly head before each snap in the game. After banging my head against the wall in frustration, I decided it would be better to reach out for a comment on the matter from EA Sports/Tiburon. [...]

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MAG Beta Going Public Tomorrow

Tweet Back when the MAG beta was first released, I was lucky enough to get in on it. At first, I downloaded the game, pleasantly surprised at how small the file size for the game was (around 300MB) but as soon as I turned on the game itself, I was treated to a 1.8GB update. [...]

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EA In-Game Advertising Abuse: Madden Arcade Ad Flashes Before Every Madden 10 Snap

Tweet I went to play some more of my Madden 2010 franchise this morning after not having played it since prior to writing the review up a few weeks ago. The PS3 flashes a notice that the game requires a 182 mb update, so I hit accept and start to watch the bar fill up. [...]

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A Boy and His Blob Custom Figures

Tweet I’ll risk my manly image and say it: A Boy and His Blob is adorable and these custom figures capture that nicely. Toy culture website Tomopop highlights user Kody Koala and his excellent work that he displays on his Flickr account. Apparently he added epoxy putty to an existing figure to craft this masterpiece, [...]

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Unrealized Burnout DLC Plans Included Traveling Backwards Through Time

Tweet No, this is not a satirical post. What I’ve written above is factual, assuming Criterion is not lying to us all. In a post from earlier this week, they share some details about what could’ve made its way into Burnout Paradise and those details include driving on the moon and time travel.

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Final Fantasy XIII Japanese Release Sells Over One Million Units Day One

Tweet According to Square Enix, the debut of Final Fantasy XIII in Japan yesterday was rung in with over 1 million copies sold. This figure does not include bundled sales via the PlayStation 3 Lightning Edition. [Yahoo News Japan]

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Video Game Winners and Losers of the Week: 12/13

Tweet Every week, I research all the best new video game releases to find the one game that you need to play and the one game that you need to stay away from: my Video Game Winners and Losers of the Week. On this week’s edition, we’ve got a little gem on Xbox Live called [...]

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