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Zero Punctuation’s Bang-On Review of “Too Human”

September 11, 2008

Some of my coworkers at b5 were all hot-and-bothered about the demo for the XBox 360 game Too Human, so I decided to download it and give it a try. I played it and was generally less than impressed with both the gameplay and especially the storyline (like Assassin’s Creed, the story’s a rather clumsy [...]

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Great Showdowns (of the 8-bit Era)

August 17, 2008

Can you identify the ’80s-era games depicted in Scott Campbell’s piece, Great Showdowns (of the 8-bit Era)?

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XBox on a REALLY Big Screen

August 13, 2008

Here’s something for gamers who want to go big: the Cineplex chain of movie theatres in Canada is renting out downtime at 29 of its locations to people who want to play XBox 360 games on their giants screens. CDN$179 (US$169) gets you and 11 of your friends 2 hours’ worth of big screen time.
Here’s [...]

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Have You Played Atari’s Founder Today?

June 10, 2008

A sign that I may have woken up in a parallel universe: Paramount Pictures has snapped up the rights to make a film — tentatively titled Atari — about the life of Atari founder Nolan Bushnell. Leonardo DiCaprio will play the title role.

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I Finished Grand Theft Auto IV!

June 9, 2008

Last week, I finished Grand Theft Auto IV. All in all, I’d have to say that it wasn’t as difficult — and definitely nowhere near as out-and-out throw-your-console-out-the-window frustrating as its predecessor Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. This is fine by a casual player like me, who got in a few hours’ playing every week, [...]

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Gamasutra’s on Lessons from Atari Games

June 9, 2008

Game Design Essentials: 20 Atari Games is a long (23 pages!), thorough but incredibly fascinating look at games from the time when Atari mattered as a videogame company. Back when they were something, they weren’t afraid to bust out of the genres of the time, take chances and come up with some innovative, experimental [...]

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Grand Theft Auto IV…for the NES?

May 8, 2008

What if Grand Theft Auto IV had come out in 1990, for the NES? The ad would probably look like this:

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Conan O’Brien on a Kinder, Gentler “Grand Theft Auto”

May 2, 2008

“In the past, Grand Theft Auto has been severely criticized for being too violent,” says Conan O’Brien. “Well, the new version — I got it yesterday and was playing with it — it’s been toned down a lot. I’m not sure it’s better…”

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Portal Meets Walken

May 1, 2008

Here’s the only way that the game Portal could be improved: by adding Chrostopher Walken to the mix!

Click the picture to see a larger version.

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GTA IV Grab Bag #1

April 29, 2008

Here’s a first in a series of regular updates on the just-released and much-awaited Grand Theft Auto IV. In this installment, there’s a hint about how to get all that Serbian translated into English, a video featuring ten more minutes of gameplay, and some thought on “sandbox” games done right.

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Grand Theft Auto IV Goes Out at Midnight!

April 28, 2008

Grand Theft Auto IV Goes Out at Midnight! Games stores all over Toronto are opening for an hour at midnight to sell the hotly-anticipated and universally praised next installment of the Grand Theft Auto series of games. If you’re in the Toronto area, all Future Shops and EB Games will be open at midnight, as [...]

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“Duke Nukem Forever” Teaser Trailer

December 19, 2007

It’s out! Not Duke Nukem Forever, but its teaser trailer.
As I was watching the video, I kept thinking: Where’s the one liner?! I want the one-liner! Don’t worry. there’s one at the end.
Click here to see the video on its YouTube page.
If you want to get a higher-quality version of the video, this entry in [...]

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Could it Really Be…Duke Nukem?

December 18, 2007

Image taken from 3D Realms.
Here’s what the folks at 3D Realms have to say:

Last Saturday we had our annual company Christmas party. It was a lot of fun as usual but it featured one special surprise. It turns out that several people had been secretly working late nights and into the wee hours of the [...]

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“Bioshock” Meets a Shopping Cart

December 16, 2007

I love this Photoshop job in which Rapture (the setting of the game BioShock) propaganda replaces the standard “Do not leave child unattended” message on grocery shopping carts:

The line is derived from the philosophy of game character Andrew Ryan (whose name and backstory are rearrangements of Ayn Rand). You hear it in an in-game recording [...]

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1000 Copies of “Rock Band” Taken in Truck Heist

December 15, 2007

I remember watching an interview with William Gibson in which he talked about the 1992 L.A. Riots and the Digital Divide. He remarked that while many stores were looted, it was notable that a store that had laptop computers in their window display went untouched; he looters simply saw no value in them, whether for [...]

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