Articles By: Josh Pankratz

Kane & Lynch – Don’t Talk ‘Bout My Grandma

Tweet With all the heavy reading shining a negative light on Eidos’ recently released Kane and Lynch, it’s great to see someone actually excited to play it. Just don’t tell Grandma about the lightning Kane shoots out of his fingers, or she may just beat you with the ol’ bicycle chain.

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Jeff Gerstmann Fired For “Larger Reasons”: Stuff and Maxim Creator Takes Over GameSpot

Tweet An insider at GameSpot has come forward today claiming he worked on the Kane and Lynch ads. He put in his two cents regarding the Gerstmann firing. Read his thoughts after the jump.

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Harmonix Admits To Faulty Rock Band Guitars: Strum Bars “Imperfect”

Tweet In a forum post via the official community forums, Harmonix went on record claiming that the strum bars in early production where “imperfect”. This just confirms what we already knew. We’ve been getting reports of guitars breaking by the truckload. In addition, Harmonix spoke on the issue of PS3 guitar compatibility, saying, “These issues [...]

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Mark Rein: “Sony’s Going To Have A Good Christmas This Year.”

Tweet In an epic interview with GamaSutra’s Brandon Sheffield and Christian Nutt, Epic Game’s VP and key creator of the Unreal Engine Mark Rein went into detail about Unreal Tournament 3 and other official UE3 licensee titles. Among other useful niblets of information, Mr. Rein highlights the importance of Sony consoles this holiday season, stating, [...]

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England Team Fails To Qualify For European Championship, Video Games To Blame?

Tweet Video Game Temptation Corrupting Soccer’s Youth Ever get so into a game that you forget about the outside world? Things like cutting the grass, paying your bills, and even aspiring to be a world class soccer player? Shame on you!

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New Ninja Gaiden 2 Gameplay Footage

Tweet I hope you aren’t squeamish, because the level of violence in this game is enough to make anyone… squeam! Yeah, that’s right, I made up a word. Ninja Gaiden 2 is shaping up to be one of the goriest titles this side of Soldier of Fortune. I’m sure it won’t be long until we [...]

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Quick Play: Halo Warthog Inspiration For Jeep Renegade 2008 Concept Car

Tweet If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to drive a Warthog, you may just get your wish next year.

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Rock Band Drums Hacked: How To Videos

Tweet Videos have started making their way across the interwebs on how to hack your Rock Band drums to work with your PC. The reason this gets us so excited is the potential for a freeware version of “Drumer Hero”. Something that would let us jam to our favorite tracks on the PC without having [...]

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PS3 Phone Features Microsoft Operating System and Plays Nintendo Games

Tweet That’s right folks, wrap your minds around this — a phone that features Playstation buttons, has a Microsoft Windows operating system, and plays Nintendo games. Confused yet? How about the fact that the phone was made in “Koera” — No, that’s not a typo, that’s what is printed on the phone.

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PSP Review – Silent Hill: Origins

Tweet It’s hard to stay faithful! While this review may not be about fidelity issues, it is about the fact that Silent Hill: Origins stays true to what made the series great. It captures the whole Middle America town setting, while keeping faithful to the Point-and-Click elements which the genre is known for.

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Activision Named Top Publisher for Month of October According to NPD

Tweet With the landmark release of Guitar Hero 3 last month, Activision claimed the second, third and fourth spots in Octobers NPD numbers. Bear in mind that the game wasn’t released until the last week in sales for October.

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Halo or Half-Life Movie? Totilo (MTV News) & Croll (Newsweek) Battle It Out

Tweet MTV News’ Stephen Totilo and Tim Kash go head to head in a battle of video game knowledge and wits versus Newsweek’s N’gai Croll and Smart Bomb author Heather Chaplin.

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New Metal Gear Remake For PSP?

Tweet In this months issue of EGM’s Rumor Mill, Quarterman reported that Konami is developing another Metal Gear game for the PSP. Apparently it isn’t going to be a spin off such as we’ve seen from Portable Ops. The new title is said to “Hearken back to the early days”.

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Crysis Review

Tweet Reality, what does the word mean to you? Does it equate to the sum of everything you perceive as living and organic? Or perhaps it’s the quotient of all life’s experiences? Regardless, more often than not, the real world offers an intangible connection that our imaginations do not. Still every now and again the [...]

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Fall Xbox Live Update: 500 Free MS Points Plus Original Xbox Titles

Tweet Christmas comes early this year for Xbox Live members. The inclusion of original Xbox titles has been announced today, along with the news that long time Live members will receive 500 free Microsoft Points. The titles available for download include Halo, Psychonauts, Crimson Skies, and Fable.

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