Articles By: Gavin Bard

Breaking News: My Computer is Still Working Fine.

Tweet We have breaking news from the Philadelphia Metropolitan area- sources indicate that there is absolutely nothing wrong with my computer.

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Ripten Review: Star Trek Online (PC)

Tweet Captain’s log, stardate 2010.33 I have been thrust directly into a world of intrigue and excitement. My life as a space captain began without much warning, as I found myself playing a large part in rescuing a Federation ship from the evil Borg. My reward for these heroics is my very own ship- kind [...]

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Ripten Review: Aliens vs. Predator (Xbox 360, PC)

Tweet Let me set the scene for you- the date was 1999. The Euro was brand new, Napster was getting ready to bring music downloading out of the seedy back alleys of IRC, everybody still had jobs, a certain governor of Texas calling himself a “compassionate conservative” wasn’t a laughable statement, and computers were looked [...]

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They Might Have Fixed Sonic

Tweet I guess I could say something witty here, or maybe make one of those analogies you all love where I compare video games to some obscure band or movie. Instead, I will just let us all bask in the glory of this moment. For this… this my friends is the minute Sega finally got [...]

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RipTen Review: Blood Bowl (Xbox 360)

Tweet In order to accurately review a game like Blood Bowl, you have to look at it from two entirely separate perspectives. On one hand is the type of gamer who is intimately familiar with the warm embrace of the Warhammer tabletop games and their subgenera. You remember the days of wielding your 28 mm [...]

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Aliens vs Predator Demo to Slaughter You This Thursday

Tweet I’ve been excited about Aliens vs Predator for a while now for no real reason other than it being a new Aliens vs Predators game. I know most people are kind of making negative waves about it based on what they’ve seen and the circumstances around it. For one, the Alien vs Predator movies [...]

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Dante’s Inferno Will Keep Getting Hotter. Sigh.

Tweet Visceral Games has assured the gaming public that Dante’s Inferno will be heavily supported with post release content. While the game isn’t set to be released for another week, Visceral’s Johnathan Knight is already greasing the wheels for many upcoming additions to the classic tale. While, as fans of Left 4 Dead and the [...]

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Ripten Review: A Tale of Divinity II: Ego Draconis (Not to Be Confused With Id Draconis) (Xbox 360)

Tweet He heard the noise come closer, the rhythmic pounding of excited footfalls. Feet thudding briskly against the floor with enthusiasm that only children could ever wish to harness. “Grandpa! Grandpa” they yelled. “Aye, aye. Calm down children. Your grandpa is too old and slow now to be going anywhere, you can be patient.” He [...]

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The Story Behind Link’s Second Quest, aka Your Childhood Was a Mistake

Tweet Life is just one long chain of events that came incredibly close to not happening. From evolution to electricity, many of the most historically important events of our lives were just as close to not happening as they were to happening. More importantly than stuff like human beings evolving from the primordial ooze or [...]

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Pressure Sensitive Touchscreens Coming to a DS Near You?

Tweet I couldn’t think of an “Under Pressure” pun, so just hum the song in your head while you read this and we can pretend I did. UK researchers Peratech have apparently won the race to create a cheap and effective pressure sensitive touch screen using an electrically conductive material called a quantum tunneling composite. [...]

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Marvelous Entertainment Executives Taking Huge Pay Cuts, Bizarro Superman Unavailable for Comment

Tweet We as Americans certainly aren’t used to seeing the words “executives” and “huge pay cuts” in the same sentence without the phrase “gun put to their head” somewhere in the article too. Marvelous Entertainment, which sounds especially familiar if you found yourself addicted to the Harvest Moon series, has made us all wonder if [...]

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New Super Street Fighter IV Trailer is Super, Thanks for Asking!

Tweet If it weren’t for BlazBlue, Street Fighter IV would have been the best fighting game in ages. So when you add SUPER before the STREET FIGHTER part you know you are going to have some high expectations. The new trailer shows off some of the new components that, when combined in a sterile scientific [...]

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Monday Night Combat isn’t Team Fortress 2 or Smash TV, We Promise

Tweet Uber Entertainment has announced they will be releasing an interesting looking title for the Xbox Live Arcade later on this year. And by “interesting” I mean “I guess these guys have played Team Fortress 2 a couple times.” It seriously looks just like it, except placed in the world of Smash TV. Which begs [...]

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Honey I Shrunk the BlazBlue, and it’s Still Better than Street Fighter IV

Tweet The best anime fighting game of the whatever-amount-of-time-you-can-remember-back-furthest-you-stoners is getting a lovingly crafted PSP edition, so you can let the Wheel of Fate Turn while you are on the go. The best news is that there will reportedly be nothing lost in translation between the full sized version and its handheld counterpart, which is [...]

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Put the Cyanide Pill Down: Beyond Good and Evil 2 Still Probably Happening

Tweet When Ubisoft made their State of the Union fiscal report, Beyond Good and Evil 2 wasn’t mentioned. Surely, gamers with taste were crippled with shock and horror. Had we waited all this time for a follow up only to have it dangled in front of us and then snatched away in the night? Has [...]

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