Articles By: Roly Reyes

PS3/360 Review: Need For Speed Undercover

Tweet Need For Speed Undercover is like a greatest hits album from a band you used to love. They put together all the stuff you remember listening to for hours, and they meld it with the best of the newer stuff that originally turned you off but finally starts to grow on you — you [...]

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Halo 3: Recon Detailed in Upcoming Game Informer

Tweet The original announcement trailer for Halo 3: Recon left a lot of unanswered questions and, even worse, projected the release to be a full year away. Thankfully, Game Informer has pulled through and gained exclusivity for the first bit of concrete details about Bungie’s next project.

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Reminder: Capcom’s PSN Store Opens Thursday

Tweet It seems right that Sony would give Capcom a dedicated storefront on their network. After all, Capcom has been doing the most creative things with the downloadable market with ventures like Bionic Commando Rearmed and Mega Man 9. And Sony has been the most expiremental with downloadable distribution by virtue of having PSN play [...]

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No More Heroes From Ubisoft

Tweet Okay, so my overzealous pursuit for clever headlines may cause more damage than usual this time. Sue me. Although Ubisoft did actually publish No More Heroes, they’ve recently announced that they’ll be dropping the game Heroes based on the TV series.

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Banjo Kazooie SDTV Issues To Go Unfixed

Tweet Exactly one week ago a demo of Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts was released on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Soon after there was a rash of SDTV owners complaining about unclear, and even downright unreadable, text. Initially Rare said that they were looking for ways to combat the issue, but their community manager, George [...]

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NXE Is Only Half-Empty, Or Is that Half-Full?

Tweet I guess it just depends on whether you’re a pessimist or an optimistic pessimist. Speaking with CVG, Microsoft’s Jerry Johnson said “Half the things we wanted to do [in NXE] we cut out of the service.” Although consumers may not have to wait an exorbitant amount of time to see them come to fruition.

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Hellgate’s Bill Roper Joins Cryptic Studios

Tweet The creative force behind the, how can I put this nicely — uhh, the clusterfuck that is Hellgate: London, Bill Roper, has joined Cryptic Studios as a Design Director for their upcoming superhero MMO, Champions Online. Following the unfortunate downward spiral of his development shop, Flagship Studios, he needed somewhere to go and Cryptic [...]

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Dude Hacks Chrono Trigger for Proposal

Tweet YouTube user “TheRealPfhreak” has a girlfriend he loves with all his heart. Naturally, he decided he wanted to make her a keeper. When he decided he’d like to seal the deal, his girlfriend was in the process of a good ol’  Chrono Trigger playthrough. It all made sense. In an effort to create a [...]

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Xbox 360 Review: Dead Space

Tweet From the dark recesses of my mailbox surfaced a copy of the recently released EA game, Dead Space. Readily equipped with poo-retardant pants, I prepared myself to be survivally-horrified. Read on to find out just how many turds I dropped.

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Fall 2008 Lineup: R² Breakdown

Tweet Fall is fast approaching, and your bank balance will soon be dropping faster than the leaves on the tree outside your window. Naturally, you may not be able to decide for yourself which of the plethora of games to splurge your life’s savings on, and that’s where I come in. Think of me as [...]

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LittleBigPlanet Level Goes “To Zanarkand”

Tweet I’m not the creative type. LittleBigPlanet should have no appeal to me, but for some reason I’m consistently drawn to it. After dwelling on this notion for hours (literally) I decided it’s the game’s combination of approachability (in both visuals and gameplay), and the platform it creates. Media Molecule presents users with a tool [...]

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Fable 2′s Collectors Edition Subject to Change

Tweet Fable 2 is done. No, really, it’s for real this time. As we speak, it’s already being pressed to discs, manufactured, and otherwise tarted up for it’s release on October 21, 2008 for North America and Asia, and October 24, 2008 for Europe. But that’s not the story, the real story is you see [...]

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Ripten Radio Presents: Ripcast Episode 1

Tweet After a month of hard work behind-the-scenes we’re proud to present you the inaugural episode of the Ripcast, this is the start of a very wild ride. Join John Kershaw, Roly Reyes, Beau Rosser, and Jonathan Zungre as they tell you about their Playlist’s for the week, which include: Crysis: Warhead, Mercenaries 2, Pure, [...]

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PC Review: Warhammer Online

Tweet Ever since I started playing Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning with the intent of reviewing it in mind, I struggled with how I’d tackle it, since MMOs (as well as episodic games) are far different beasts than your average gaming fare. This is largely because they’re the very definition of moving targets-– constantly evolving [...]

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Soulja Boy’s Expert Analysis Of Braid

Tweet You know, I think I was wrong about you, Soulja Boy. When I first heard your music, I thought you were a talentless punk who got rich from a dance that my two year old cousin could perfect. But, now I see the real you. You’re a thoughtful gamer who’s passionate about the medium. [...]

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