PAX Prime 2010 is here!

Well it looks like another convention is upon us and I hope you guys are just as excited as we are. As… [read more]

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Get familiar with Enslaved

Enslaved is out in a little over a month and the game is still being largely ignored. Ninja Theory's… [read more]

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Review: Sin & Punishment 2

I'm not known for being a huge fan of the Wii's controller. I feel there are one too many unambitious… [read more]

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Bioshock Infinite Announced. Pants Become Filled to the Brim with Man Juice.

This week I posted about the coming announcement from Irrational Games. Speculation was thick in the… [read more]

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Singularity Review: If Only I Could Rewind Time and Play it Again

In a world where Call of Duty and Halo reign supreme in the first person shooter genre, it's a shame… [read more]

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Fallout: New Vegas achievments released

by Joseph Christ · August 30th, 2010 · 8 Comments

I know that I haven’t been the biggest cheerleader for the new Fallout lately.  After my hands on at E3 I just couldn’t shake the feeling that New Vegas was going to be more of the same.  Something more like a huge expansion pack than anything else.  Today the full achievement list for New Vegas [...]

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Get familiar with Enslaved

by Brad Simons · August 30th, 2010 · 17 Comments

Enslaved is out in a little over a month and the game is still being largely ignored. Ninja Theory’s previous game, Heavenly Sword, was an adequate God of War clone in gameplay, but exceptional at character and presentation. Now they a bringing those same talents to a far more interesting gameplay experience. Below is a [...]

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Xbox Live Gold Subscription Price to be increased November 1

by Ben Alford · August 30th, 2010 · 26 Comments

Price increases on Xbox Live Gold Subscriptions were announced today by Xbox Live Director of Programming, Larry Hryb, on his Major Nelson blog. The price increase will affect Xbox Live Gold members in the United States, Mexico, Canada and the United Kingdom. Canada and the UK receive increases on the one month plan (C$8.99 to [...]

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For Those Who Will Be At PAX/Seattle

by David Liao · August 30th, 2010 · 5 Comments

The Community Meet Up will be on Friday Night at 7 PM after the conclusion of our panel. I’d assume that any of you willing enough to come to our panel, wouldn’t be against the idea of grabbing some dinner afterward. Also, any of you in the Seattle area interested in coming are welcome too. [...]

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Wake Up, You’re Driving

by Brad Simons · August 29th, 2010 · 14 Comments

While I do play and love a wide variety of game genres, I could count the number of racing games I’ve truly enjoyed on one three fingered hand. Ever since the release of Hydro Thunder, which I greatly enjoyed, I’ve been trying new racing games in an effort to prolong my thrill ride. I rented [...]

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Tentative Weekly Schedule

by David Liao · August 29th, 2010 · 10 Comments

Sunday – 8/29 We will have JapanCast later today at 3 PM Central in the Japancast Channel. I will be hosting and I’ll probably be playing a bunch of idol videos or maybe Coin Locker Story. Monday – 8/30 David will start things up with possibly Half Life 2.  Brad will entertain you with a [...]

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Acclaim is dead! Long live Acclaim!

by Joseph Christ · August 28th, 2010 · 12 Comments

Acclaim was pronounced dead on Thursday, August 26th 2010. It leaves behind only Playdom and Disney Interactive who have swiftly cannibalized its rotting and dessicated corpse.  Cause of death is listed as piss-poor management, obtuse and damaging marketing, and over-extension. Begun in 1987,  Acclaim is credited with bringing us some of the best known titles [...]

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The First Templar is a game which probably has a Templar in it

by Joseph Christ · August 28th, 2010 · 8 Comments

The most important thing you need to know about The First Templar is that the press release I obtained about the game was listed as coming from the town in which I was born. This, undoubtedly, will imbue the game with a preternatural ability to rise above all other game releases to secure the title [...]

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TF 056 – Top 5 SideKick Spinoffs

by David Liao · August 28th, 2010 · 8 Comments

Brad, Nick, and David talk about some characters they’d like to see get their own spinoff. Also there were some technical problems for the first 30 seconds. I did my best to reduce the interference. You weren’t able to hear anything through it before so I think it’s much better now. I don’t know what [...]

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A grim future for Parasite Eve?

by Brad Simons · August 27th, 2010 · 11 Comments

I adore the first Parasite Eve. It was fresh, mature, creepy, cinematic — and it was an RPG. Perhaps my favorite part was the game’s battle system. Viewed from an isometric angle, the semi real-time combat system was both fast paced and strategic. Unfortunately, Parasite Eve 2 was little more than a Resident Evil clone [...]

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A Game By Its Cover Competition

by Ben Alford · August 27th, 2010 · 7 Comments

A Game By Its Cover is a competition held by TIGSource, where, in a little over a month, game developers created games based on fake carts or box arts. Over 60 entries were submitted and I played them all (minus about 3 that I couldn’t get to run). Here, I go over my favorites and [...]

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Community Highlight: My Five Days as a Criminal

by Joseph Christ · August 26th, 2010 · 11 Comments

(Community Highlight is a feature where we choose an article submitted by a member of the 4Player Podcast community and bring it to the front page for all to see.  Interested in seeing your article on the front page? Then submit one here.) My APB experience Let’s start off with some history! APB, or All [...]

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Buffoon Seattle detectives and failed newspaper cite video games in murder case

by Joseph Christ · August 26th, 2010 · 28 Comments

It seems like I’ve been writing about this a lot lately but I just can’t let some good ol’ fashion ignorance go unnoticed.  Failed newspaper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer which published its last print edition back in March of 2009, has run a story called “Detectives: Murder motive may have been video game fantasy” in which [...]

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