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Photoshoppery of the Day

by Joey deVilla on September 19, 2009

I was 10 years old when Space Invaders came out, so this photo brings back happy memories:

space_invadersClick the photo to see it on its original page.

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Muscle March: Weirdest Videogame of 2009

by Joey deVilla on May 18, 2009

I think we’ve got an early contender for the title of “Weirdest Videogame of 2009”: Muscle March for the Nintendo Wii. As if the game weren’t weird enough, the trailer below ramps up the weirdness by presenting it in that oh-so-Japanese style with epilepsy-inducing jump-cuts and a hyper-enthusiastic Japanese TV announcer:

[Found via Waxy.org.]

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AWWWWWWWW YEEEEEEEAAAHHHH!

gta_iv_lost_and_damned

The much-anticipated first downloadable “episode” for Grand Theft Auto IV, The Lost and Damned, is now available via XBox Live for 1600 Microsoft Points (US$19.99).

The Lost and Damned is a brand new story with brand new characters set in Grand Theft Auto IV’s Liberty City. In the story, you play the part of Johnny, a veteran member of the biker gang known as The Lost. Niko, your character in Grand Theft Auto IV’s main story had some pretty interesting run-ins with them, and as Johnny, you’ll have some pretty interesting run-ins with rival gangs – and probably with rivals within your own gang. (Has there ever been a Grand Theft Auto where a supposed friend didn’t stab you in the back?)

Here’s the first trailer for The Lost and Damned:

…and here’s the follow-up trailer:

I’ll download it tonight and report on my gameplay experiences later this week.

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Videocrab’s Awesome Gaming Console Setup

by Joey deVilla on January 27, 2009

I wouldn’t mind having a setup like Videocrab’s:

"Videocrab's" awesome gaming setup, which appears to include every game console from the past 25 years
Photo by Videocrab.
Click here to see its Flickr page.

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Fallout 3, as Reviewed on Zero Punctuation

by Joey deVilla on November 19, 2008

Once again, it’s time for my favourite videogame reviewer, Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw, and his series of smartass videogame reviews, Zero Punctuation. This week, he covers Fallout 3. His verdict:

Yeah, it’s pretty good.

Its 93 rating at Metacritic — which gives it a standing equal to Gears of War 2 – comes from a number of glowing reviews from various sources:

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Looking Forward to Trying This Out Later Tonight…

November 19, 2008

Technorati Tags: XBox,NXE,New XBox Experience,games,videogames,Microsoft

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Rock Star Mullet Kit: Weirdest “Rock Band”/“Guitar Hero” Accessory

November 8, 2008

I saw these at Future Shop a couple of days ago, beside the Rock Band and Guitar Hero packages. You too can have rock star hair for a mere $19.99 (in Canadian dollars)!

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Salmagundi for Friday, November 7th, 2008

November 7, 2008

Interview with Chris Slemp, MSDN

Here’s another video interview featuring Yours Truly at the PDC: it’s with Chris Slemp, Program Manager for the Server and Tools Online group at Microsoft. In the interview, we talk about MSDN and its new social bookmarking feature.
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“Grim Fandango’s” Puzzle Document

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Zero Punctuation on “Spore”: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

September 17, 2008

Oh, how I enjoy Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw’s game reviews in his video series Zero Punctuation. In this installment, he covers (and savages) Will Wright’s long-awaited game, Spore. Thankfully, he skips complaining about the DRM, which I heard plenty about already. After hearing his review, DRM sounds like the least of the game’s problems…

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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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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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