Articles By: Chelsea Thompson

PS3/360 Review: Mirror’s Edge

Tweet Mirror’s Edge has been one of the most highly anticipated games this season. It takes the tried and true elements of the first-person perspective, mixed with an artistic style and frantic gameplay to make a unique type of game. But is this game worth shelling out the $60?

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Nintendo Tries to Stop Used Sales With a Form of “Hardware DRM”

Tweet It seems Nintendo is not satisfied with the amount of money that the casual market is slipping into their garters. In an unprecedented and frankly offensive move, they have added a sort of “DRM” to prevent Wii users from re-selling or even sharing their newest peripheral: the WiiSpeak.

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Ladies’ Night Out with Animal Crossing: City Folk

Tweet Last night, I had the pleasure of attending a rather unique event: A “Ladies’ Night Out” event for Nintendo’s upcoming Animal Crossing title. I was actually kind of confused at the whole idea–I mean, according to Cammie Dunaway, Animal Crossing is the title coming out forhardcore gamers, not the more casual female market. The [...]

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Gears 2 Proves MK Isn’t the Only Toasty Game

Tweet In the video above, there is a very…unusual Gears of War 2 Easter egg. I was on the fence about this game (not due to it’s quality, more based on money issues) but after seeing this I might have to trade in a bunch of older games to get this. I think I laughed [...]

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Chrono Trigger DS Will Feature a New Ending

Tweet In addition to a revamped control system and added dungeons, the new version of Chrono Trigger will apparently include a new ending. As if you need more incentive to buy the game when it comes out. No specific details have been announced; only the release of two screenshots by Famitsu. In the screenshot shown [...]

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Media Molecule “Moderates” LittleBigPlanet User Levels — By Deleting Them

Tweet It seems that even before the game’s release, LittleBigPlanet has been having problems. The latest comes from the “moderation” of user-created levels. Now, I’m pretty sure everyone was expecting all of the penis-themed LBP levels to be the first to get the crackdown, but surprisingly that isn’t the case at all. Instead, levels that [...]

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Persona 4 Will Not Have A Second Release

Tweet When Persona 3 originally came out, I was one of the first to buy it, and one of the few to preorder it. After word slowly spread about how awesome the game was Atlus released Persona 3 FES edition, an extended version of the original game. It looks like they have no plans to [...]

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Rock Band Track Pack Vol. 2 Offers 20 DLC Tracks on One Disc

Tweet EA, Harmonix and MTV Games have announced a new expansion for Rock Band in the form of Rock Band Track Pack Volume 2. Filled with 20 songs previously offered as DLC, this disc will be offered up for Wii, 360, PS3, and PS2. The disc can be played as a standalone game, or 360 [...]

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Mirror’s Edge Has Gone Gold

Tweet Mirror’s Edge, one of the most highly anticipated titles from EA this year, has officially gone gold. If you haven’t already, I recommend giving the demo a spin. It has some tough competition this season with all the triple-A titles being put out, but I think it offers enough of a new, unique experience [...]

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Raving Rabbids Toys

Tweet When Rayman: Raving Rabbids was first released on a Wii a few years back, gamers still loved silly mini-games that required plenty of waggle. Now gamers are feeling a little bitter towards these types of games, but going back now I still have fun trying to find the out-of-tune Rabbid in the choir and [...]

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Mushroom Men: Give a Beat Down in Perfect Time

Tweet For those of you who aren’t familiar with Mushroom Men: Spore Wars, it’s a quirky little platformer coming out in the Wii next month. After a meteor crashes on Earth, four tribes of Mushroom Men gain consciousness and fight against each other (and other plants come to life) for the right to survive. What’s [...]

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EA Turns DRM Into A Guessing Mini-Game

Tweet DRM is still one of the biggest topics this year. Some people hate it, some people don’t care, and a few people are sympathetic to the fight against piracy. Well, it seems like EA decided to make DRM unbelievably obnoxious fun by making the game’s registration a cute little number puzzle. And by “cute [...]

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Mirror’s Edge: Demo Impressions

Tweet Yes, I know the demo was released on PSN yesterday. However I have a 360 and I had to feverishly wait for the demo to go up today. Ever since I saw the first videos for this, I’ve been excited to get my hands on it. I didn’t have a chance to at PAX [...]

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Rise From Your Grave: Psychobabble

Tweet Remember the good old days of Popcap Games when they had online multiplayer? Psychobabble, a creative twist on magnetic poetry, was one of these games. Popcap decided a couple years back that the cost of maintaining these online games was simply not feasible anymore. People were pretty upset about Popcap’s actions, even going so [...]

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Left 4 Dead Achievement Pokes Fun At Dead Rising

Tweet Left 4 Dead surprises me everyday with the amount of sheer awesome that’s being generated by the game’s hype machine. If you kill every zombie in the infected town of Willamete, you get an achievement. Doesn’t sound so bad, right? I mean, when the zombie apocalypse comes around that’s kind of the plan. You [...]

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