The Best And Worst Of Voice Sampling In Video Games
Remember the old days, when you couldn’t just throw everything on a Blu-Ray and hope for the best? When you had to scrimp and squeeze every bit of audio into a cartridge? This awes…
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February 1, 2010CommentA Movie Based On A Game Based On A Movie: Live-Action Dead Rising
In Japan, there’s yet another movie on the way that’s based upon a Capcom game involving zombies getting torn apart, but I’m not talking about Resident Evil Afterlife (which is sup…
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January 30, 2010If You’ve Got No Rap With Women, Maybe Your iPhone Can Help
Poor Q Entertainment. Long has it been since the glory days of Rez and Lumines. To help pay the bills while they work on Rez 2 (in the end, it’ll be called something else for sure)…
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January 29, 2010The Latest From The Creator Of Resident Evil Looks An Awful Like Halo
Not to long ago, Shinji Mikami, whose list of credits include Resident Evil, Dino Crisis, and God Hand, got together with some buddies of his to form Platinum Studios. And we’ve be…
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January 29, 2010Let’s All Say Hello To The iPad
After much waiting, and after much speculating, the “third pillar” in Apple’s mobile stratagem has finally been unveiled. A device so mind blowing and thought provoking that Apple …
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January 28, 2010In South Korea, Virtual Cash Is As Good As The Real Thing
Here’s the deal: the more gold you have in a game like World of Warcraft, the poorer you probably are in the real world (since all that monster killing and the such takes time, and…
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January 26, 2010Dr. Phil Considers FarmVille To Be “Ridiculous”
For once I’m agreement with Oprah’s go-to medical crackpot (I was going to note that he’s only actually a foot doctor and never got a degree in psychoanalysis like Howard Stern lov…
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January 26, 2010The Argument For/Against Video Game Infomercials: Muscle March
As noted previously, there are quite a few titles to choose from this week, though one that came out last week deserves special attention since it flew under many’s radars. It’s fo…
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January 26, 2010Full Release: Games
All right, the busy holiday season is finally done and over with, and games actually worth caring about (but which were afraid be being lost in the holiday noise) are finally makin…
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January 25, 2010World of Warcraft: Cataclysm: Game Trailer
Blizzard’s hoping you’ll return to Azeroth to say hello to an old friend.
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January 22, 2010Get Ready For A Video Game Reality Show
Sony Computer Entertainment of America is putting together what should be, God willing (pro-tip: there is no God) the final nail in the reality show coffin, one that is designed to…
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January 22, 2010The Skies Have Been Made Safer By Trashing Some Poor Kid’s Xbox 360
Flying seems to get more and more ridiculous with every passing day. Here in New York City, many of us were completely a-gasp upon hearing that a flight was diverted due to an item…
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January 22, 2010The Craziest Video Game Endings Ever
With videogaming’s new-found art status, a lot of guys are looking for the game that will totally validate all those wasted years in front of the NES to their stern and unfeeling p…
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January 22, 2010Mass Effect 2 Launch Trailer
Christ, this new trailer for Mass Effect 2 is absolutely mindblowing. How much did this damn thing cost?
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January 21, 2010The Best Video Game Scenes In Movies
So I took home Gamer on DVD and it got me thinking about something. I’ve always loved when movie directors try to portray games on the silver screen and every once in a while, the…
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