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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
A Girlfriend-Friendlier Gears of War
A lot has changed in the videogame industry between Cliff Bleszinski’s work on Jazz Jackrabbit, a game about a large jackrabbit in space shooting things with a giant gun, and his current work on Gears of War 2, a game about a large man in space shooting things with a giant gun. The demographic of […]
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Mike Tyson Must Be Rolling in His Grave
Since the days of Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!, videogame developers have tried and failed to bring the sweet science of punching cartoon men and woman directly in the face to reality. EA is working on the latest attempt called Facebreaker, which could only be a worse name if they put two exclamation points after it. Facebreaker!! […]
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
More Grand Theft Auto. It’s Very Popular with the Kids.
The parade of GTA IV updates on Danger Dance continues unimpeded, like a parade of quadriplegics parading under their own power, dragging themselves along using only their teeth against the pavement; in other words, it’s been a slow parade. Mostly, we’ve been playing GTA IV, which has been distracting us from doing anything particularly productive. […]
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
GTA IV Impressions: My Shoulder is Broken
Joystiq ran a series of GTA IV impression posts, where their crew took a captivating look back at their first experiences with the game, from their first in-game car theft to the first time they picked up a digital hooker and beat her to death with a baseball bat. It’s really charming stuff and almost […]
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
The GTA IV Countdown
I had some big plans involving the release of GTA IV. I wanted to jump on the hype bandwagon and start counting down the days to release. Each day closer to April 29th would have been another occasion for me to express how amazing the game would be, with certain and undeniable knowledge, based on […]
