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Online Night Tonight

by Brad Simons · April 30th, 2010 · 18 Comments

In an effort to get hyped about playing the Halo Reach Beta next week, I’ll be playing some Halo 3 multiplayer live on the feed tonight! Where: Dur dur dur When: 8pm Central Time What: Halo 3 Multiplayer Brad

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My Frustrations with Professor Layton

by Nick Henderson · April 29th, 2010 · 7 Comments

My absence from the site for the past few weeks has been unfortunate but I have been trying desperately to keep up with the new releases and tackle some of my laundry list as of late. My latest conquest has been a fresh experience (to say the least) but also one of the most frustrating [...]

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Poto & Cabenga

by Ben Alford · April 29th, 2010 · 5 Comments

Gamma is a series of events displaying various experimental games which are submitted according to a primary theme. The theme for this year’s event, Gamma IV, was one button control. Out of the one hundred and fifty submissions, six were selected and displayed last month in San Francisco, coinciding with the Game Developers Conference. One [...]

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Tetris That Really Hates You

by Ben Alford · April 27th, 2010 · 14 Comments

As David’s Coffee post for the day exemplified, Tetris can sometimes seem like it is made to screw you up. But this take on Tetris, lovingly called, Hatetris, is actually designed in a way that gives you the worst possible pieces. On the programmer’s blog, he explains the genesis of the game and how it [...]

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Just Cause 2 and why it brings us one step closer to the Holy Grail of space sims.

by Joseph Christ · April 27th, 2010 · 8 Comments

Just Cause 2 is a wonderful and expansive game. Looking at my game stats I see that I have played the game for over 18hrs but I’m sitting it around 16% completion. For someone who spent a whole lot of time in Fallout 3, those kinds of odds are music to my ears. But more [...]

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Remember Good Disney?

by Travis Granger · April 26th, 2010 · 8 Comments

I do, and never stopped believing. This reminds me of  Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts right off the bat. Only, instead of having an infinite amount of options on your vehicle, its more about having an infinite amount of options to change your world. Of course this is only a teaser, God knows what this [...]

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I learned something about myself today…

by Brad Simons · April 26th, 2010 · 16 Comments

While fantasizing about all the awesome characters I want to see in Marvel vs Capcom 3, I discovered something regarding my tastes. What am I talking about? Brad says

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Sleep is Death

by Ben Alford · April 24th, 2010 · 12 Comments

In Jason Rohrer’s 2009 Game Developer’s Conference talk titled Beyond Single Player: Hunting for an Artistic Niche, Rohrer describes how games can go beyond the metaphorical legitimacy line dividing games from other widely accepted artistic mediums while still keeping what is intrinsic to games. At the time, it was unclear how the elements he brought [...]

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Chris Redfield? Come on Capcom…

by Brad Simons · April 23rd, 2010 · 35 Comments

…can we get something a little more inspired? Marvel vs Capcom 3 has finally been announced so now is the time to post your dream team. As most of you know, MvC3 is a 3 on 3 fighting game containing characters from both the Marvel Universe and Capcom games. The goal here is for you [...]

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Corvus was right. Marvel vs Capcom 3 is official. Now tell me what you see.

by Brad Simons · April 20th, 2010 · 28 Comments

Well this is awkward. I was totally going to make a post of my Capcom dream list that I want to be in the (then rumored) Marvel vs Capcom 3. Well, it’s been officially announced now (debut trailer), and it seems some of my “dreams” have already come true.

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Brad’s Top 5 Minigames

by Brad Simons · April 19th, 2010 · 19 Comments

When I came up with the idea for the recently recorded Top 5 Video Game Sidequests, I had originally planned to include mini-games into the mix. Well, since most of use didn’t put any minigames on our lists, I thought I’d share mine with you on the blog. So here are my Top 5 minigames [...]

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by Brad Simons · April 17th, 2010 · 30 Comments
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And the End was Nigh. Or Near… Tomorrow

by Travis Granger · April 15th, 2010 · 25 Comments

Waking up today was a little more difficult than normal. A couple of things began to happen which assured me that I would have to face my fate tomorrow. My bed was shaking, My vagina had been stabbed by what looked like a crucifix, and someone wrote “pleh” on my stomach with toothpaste. Tomorrow will [...]

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