by Rainier on Sept. 12, 2010 @ 12:00 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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If you haven't done so yet, be sure to check out Adam's
review for the upcoming Halo: Reach, which comes out next week. If you want to find out whether we think it'll be worth your hard-earned money, go read it.
It was quite a nice and hot day yesterday, so we didn't drive to do our errands and decided to walk everywhere. We wrapped up season 2 of Dexter, watched
Our Family Wedding, and cheered Kim Clijsters on to her third US Open victory!
by Rainier on Sept. 11, 2010 @ 10:18 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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King's Bounty is an adventure game with tactical turn-based battles and role-playing elements unfolding in a rich fantasy world. The King's Bounty: Crossworlds expansion features two new campaigns and a massive expansion, dozens of new quests, new items, spells and creatures.
by Rainier on Sept. 11, 2010 @ 10:11 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Since its inception, the Fable franchise has offered players the opportunity to choose their own destinies as a hero, villain or someone between, where the possibilities are limitless and the consequences can weigh heavily on the path to greatness.
by Rainier on Sept. 11, 2010 @ 10:06 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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The Ball is a first person action-adventure game featuring a full single-player experience built on Epic’s Unreal™ Engine 3 technology. As a swashbuckling archaeologist working on the slopes of a dormant volcano somewhere in Mexico, you get stuck in a cavern. It doesn’t take long before you realize this is more than just a cave.
by Rainier on Sept. 11, 2010 @ 10:02 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Michael Jackson: The Experience will provide an interactive experience for the entire family that enables players to step into the shoes of Michael Jackson and re-live his most iconic performances through their own singing and dancing. Ubisoft revealed that the motion-sensing editions on PS3/X360 are delayed until 2011, the other platforms are still on schedule.
by Rainier on Sept. 11, 2010 @ 1:42 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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The Haunted: Hell's Reach is a fast paced third person action horror game that focuses on delivering an intense multiplayer experience. Your goal is to liberate cursed places and survive the assault from the minions of hell.
by Rainier on Sept. 11, 2010 @ 1:28 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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EVE Online is an MMO game set in a world of galactic proportions, governed by a hyper-capitalistic economy where space flight is the path to all commerce, communication, and conflict.
by Rainier on Sept. 11, 2010 @ 1:18 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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A parody of the open-world action genre, Retro City Rampage takes modern game mechanics and mashes them into an authentic 8-bit experience.
by Rainier on Sept. 11, 2010 @ 12:00 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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The pineapple cream cheese was a success yesterday morning. Very tasty! If you are looking for a new flavor, we can definitely recommend that one.
Halo: Reach Limited Edition just arrived, so I will be checking that out later today. Not a super huge Halo fan, but I've played every title in the franchise so far. Too bad there haven't been any PC ports since the abysmal Halo 2.
No big plans for the weekend. Catching up on some news stragglers, watching some more Dexter, and probably watching Resident Evil: Afterlife and/or Going The Distance.
by Rainier on Sept. 10, 2010 @ 7:18 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Dungeon Hunter: Alliance is a 3D epic quest set in a dark fantasy world, in the tradition of the most successful action RPGs, that you can revisit in intense multiplayer mode, local or online with up to 4 players.
by Rainier on Sept. 10, 2010 @ 6:42 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions will allow players to travel through four different worlds as distinctly different versions of Spider-Man from four universes across Marvel lore, including The Amazing Spider-Man and Spider-Man Noir. The shipping announcement from earlier this week revealed that Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions is "soon to be available on Windows PC" (thanks
Blues).
by Rainier on Sept. 10, 2010 @ 6:37 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Top Spin 4 brings the competitive action of tennis to life like never before with redesigned controls, jaw-dropping player models and Signature Style animations, enhanced TV-style presentation elements, and one of the deepest player rosters to date featuring tennis’ top athletes and legendary pros.
by Rainier on Sept. 10, 2010 @ 6:29 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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The Lord of the Rings Online allows players to forge heroic legacies in the War for Middle-Earth, experience an evolving persistent recreation of Tolkien's fantasy realm where you can establish their unique reputations, and discover and wield legendary weapons in strategic battles, while adventuring solo or in Fellowships.
by Rainier on Sept. 10, 2010 @ 6:26 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Red Orchestra 2 is a sequel to Tripwire's realism-based multiplayer WWII shooter. The game will focus on one of the most brutal battles in all of human history, the Battle of Stalingrad and the surrounding operations, both German and Russian, from July 1942 to Feb. 1943.
by Rainier on Sept. 10, 2010 @ 6:14 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Section 8: Prejudice is a futuristic FPS that brings strategy and tactics to the genre in a game where players can modify the battlefield on the fly. You are part of an elite infantry squad with a penchant for taking on suicide missions that no one else will tackle.
by Rainier on Sept. 10, 2010 @ 3:21 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Shogun 2: Total War will take long-time veterans and newcomers alike to the next level of strategy gaming. Based on 10 years of experience in making Total War, Shogun 2 is the perfection of the series with a new Artificial Intelligence (AI), revolutionary multiplayer modes, brand new campaign map options and epic 3D real-time battles.
by Rainier on Sept. 10, 2010 @ 2:17 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Step into the boots of a Spartan III, as Halo: Reach charts the story of Noble Team in their heroic stand to defend the planet Reach, its people and secrets against a ruthless assault by an alien collective known as the Covenant.
by Rainier on Sept. 10, 2010 @ 11:45 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Professor Layton and his apprentice, Luke, receive a confounding letter — from Luke 10 years in the future. But the message inside is even more troubling: London of the future is in disarray, and the only person who can help set things right is Professor Layton.
by Rainier on Sept. 10, 2010 @ 11:18 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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A brief asking the United States Supreme Court to find unconstitutional a 2005 California law restricting the sale and rental of computer and video games to minors was filed today by the Entertainment Software Association.
by Rainier on Sept. 10, 2010 @ 10:16 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Dead meets Lead is a fast paced zombie slaying game where you take the role of an 18th century commander who sets out to rid an island from its zombie infestation.
by Rainier on Sept. 10, 2010 @ 10:12 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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X Motor Racing is an arcade racing game with next generation physics model, including all classes of cars from old RWD to modern sports cars, physics, and various graphical features. This demo includes 3 tracks, one car and is now updated with new physics surfaces, damage model, etc.
by Rainier on Sept. 10, 2010 @ 10:07 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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John Daly's ProStroke Golf will feature fully licensed courses which John has played on, bringing the real PGA experience into your home, and will also include many different game modes, realistic golf physics and commentary by the famous voices of golf, delivering the complete golfing experience to golf fans, sports fans and gamers alike.
by Rainier on Sept. 10, 2010 @ 10:01 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Machinarium is a point & click adventure where you play as a little robot who has been unjustly expelled to the scrap yard behind the city. Guide the little robot back into town to rescue his robot-girlfriend and stop the bad guys from the 'Black Cap Brotherhood' before they can bomb the central tower that houses the city's ruler.
by Rainier on Sept. 10, 2010 @ 9:32 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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In Blood Drive, contestants must use their motorized death steeds of steel in a televised game show where drivers battle each other and hordes of revolting flesh eaters in an all-out fight to the death.
by Rainier on Sept. 10, 2010 @ 9:27 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Music and social games developer Zoë Mode is delighted to announce that it is hiring, in particular programmers, game designers and project managers for its Brighton studio.