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Airtight Games' upcoming dimension-hopping IP promises the quirky, mind-bending puzzles one would expect from the lead designer of Portal.
The level of detail in this collector's dream of a tome is amazing, and serves as a tantalizing appetizer to Diablo III.
The student has become the master, as the wanna-be held onto its fun and edge after the sandbox king veered into brown, drab adulthood.
XBLA Indie Games offers the the childlike fun of "hide and seek" with the social bent of charades in a subtly addictive party game worth searching for.
Airtight Games' upcoming dimension-hopping IP promises the quirky, mind-bending puzzles one would expect from the lead designer of Portal.
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Posted January 31st 2012 by Anthony DiPalma.
2012 was off to a rough start with only two noteworthy games that were released in the month of January. February on the other hand, is the month that will make it hard for workers and students to avoid calling in sick. This Valentine's Day, show your loved ones who really matters in the relationship. (I hope the hole in my Kingdoms of Amalur disc is big enough) With a month chock full of games that will surely appeal to everyone, it's going to be hard not to start coughing into the phone as you tell your boss that you probably have Swine Flu for the fourth time.
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Posted January 29th 2012 by Anthony DiPalma.
Tonight, before the premiere of the new HBO series Luck, viewers were treated with a new trailer for season 2 of the hit series Game of Thrones, which made its debut last year. The previous trailer, titled "The Cold Winds are Rising" focused on Stannis Baratheon, brother to King Robert in season 1, and contender for the Iron Throne. This new trailer, dubbed "Shadow," gives us a glimpse of Stannis, Melisandre, and the war between the Starks and the Lannisters, as well as a taste of things to come.
You can watch the trailer here and let us know what you think in the section below! (Caution: I've watched the trailer 14 times already. Don't worry, we'll still be here when you're done.) Game of Thrones Season 2 airs April 1, 2012.
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Posted January 25th 2012 by Frankie Aguilar.
I've never really been a huge fan of puzzle games. Don't get me wrong, I played the hell out of Tetris, and I'd be lying if I said I hadn't killed almost every single second waiting at doctors' offices destroying Bejeweled. Let's chock my distaste up to frustrating puzzle portions of third-person action games on the original PlayStation. A few years ago I picked up Valve's Orange Box, and I'll be honest, it was solely to get my hands on Team Fortress 2. But I was intrigued by Portal, mostly because I had no idea what it was. I could only assume it involved portals. This gem over the course of just a few hours completely changed my perception of puzzle games. Portal was a revelation, introducing a brand new gameplay mechanic that was at the same time familiar and mind blowing, and left fans clamoring for more. Kim Swift, one of the lead designers on the original Portal (not to mention the creative force behind both the weighted companion cube and GLaDOS) is now heading up a team at Washington-based Airtight Games, and is setting out to revolutionize the puzzle genre all over again with Quantum Conundrum.
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Tags: Airtight Games, Kim Swift, Portal, Sqaure Enix, Quantum Conundrum
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Posted January 25th 2012 by Daisy Garcia.
In this week's episode, we discuss the games we've been playing, SOPA, and how Google is ruining our world. I mean, searching, not ruining. Oh, and Jared rants about Will Smith for no real reason. Again. Happy listening.
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Posted January 23rd 2012 by Frankie Aguilar.
Now, before any of you start Googling my address in order to come steal my advanced copy of Diablo III, understand that this is indeed a book review. Yes, another book review on a gaming site. But this is no ordinary codex, as a matter of fact this is one of the most badass pieces of gaming literature I've ever had the pleasure of getting my hands on. The Book of Cain is an encyclopedic analysis of the world of Sanctuary in which the Diablo series takes place. It chronicles heavenly and hellish forces' eternal battle for humanity, the origins of man, and so much more. Although this book was technically written by veteran novelist Flint Dille, you can be certain this book will echo subconsciously with the grizzled dictations of Deckard Cain himself.
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Tags: diablo, Diablo III, blizzard, insight editions, PC
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Posted January 18th 2012 by Anthony DiPalma.
Years ago you could have said that Saints Row was just a slightly wackier version of the Grand Theft Auto series that has revolutionized open world gaming, and you wouldn't be far off the mark. As someone who has put in hundreds of hours playing every GTA game, I can see why, despite commercial success, many fans were turned off by GTA IV, the latest entry in the series. For the longest time GTA fans were looking to sate their appetite for an open world game that focused more on having fun than having a somewhat deep narrative. In fact, you could say that the student has become the master, as Saints Row: The Third shines brighter than GTA IV in just about every way. Over time, the GTA series has put on a suit and tie, but Saints Row is lighting a bag of dog shit on fire and leaving it on your front steps.
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Tags: Rockstar, IV, GTA, 3, Saints Row
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Posted January 16th 2012 by J Edison Thomas.
Long before I technically completed my tenure of childhood, I began to regret that I would not get to play enough Duck, Duck, Goose before I was too old to do so. Grown-ups never trotted out the old game too often, and most of it is spent waiting for your turn—when it doesn't come, the feeling of lack carries over until the next chance to play. Around eight or nine, I realized that it was possible I had already played my last round, and that next chance would never arrive. It remains one of the principal regrets of my life.
Duck, Duck, Goose isn't unique in this case; the myriad of childhood activities that I could see marked for death upon advancing teenagehood caused me more stress than I like to imagine children face regarding the evanescence of time. Years before the imagined expiration date I had assigned them, activities like watching cartoons, playing with G.I. Joes, and climbing trees became what I can only term Childhood Guilty Pleasures. Like Nineteen Eighty-Four's Winston Smith and his doomed covert meetings with Julia, I could not fully enjoy myself because of the inevitable, advancing wall of childhood oblivion.
To some degree, I empathize with LARPers who fail or refuse to make the choice to leave childhood behind, and I am thankful that my generation has laid somewhat of a bulwark against total Adultivity. I still watch cartoons, I don't hesitate to hop on the swings at a playground, and I play more videogames than my own children. Occasionally, I stumble upon one that plays to the sensibilities of those Childhood Guilty Pleasures. Adam Spragg's Hidden in Plain Sight is just such a game.
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Posted January 15th 2012 by Daisy Garcia.
We're back in a new year with a whole slew of podcasts. In this weeks' episode Frankie calls in to talk about his articles, "A Year At The Movies" and "15 Flicks You Gotta See in 2012." That is of course, before the police so rudely interrupted and tried to shut down the podcast. Happy listening.
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Posted January 9th 2012 by Frankie Aguilar.
Once again, Frankie aims to ferry his fellow nerds across a river of crappy movies and onto sparkling shores of geeky entertainment.
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Tags: the amazing spider-man, the dark knight rises, brave, prometheus, the dictator, the avengers, the hunger games, the secret world of arrietty, the bourne legacy, frankenweenie, lincoln, zombies, movies, Comics, django unchained, world war z, the hobbit, 47 ronin, 15 flicks
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Posted January 6th 2012 by Jordan Mammo.
Last year we tried to highlight a few original projects to keep an eye on amidst 2011's sea of trilogies and franchises. Rockstar was throwing out the much-hyped, gritty L.A. Noire, Goichi Suda and Shinji Mikami were re-teaming for the first time since 2005, and Fumito Ueda was supposed to finally unleash his first project in six years.
Unfortunately, some of our predictions were flat-out misfires as certain games didn't even come out! Ueda left Sony to strike out on his own, and The Last Guardian was pushed into 2012. He's still working on the title in a freelance capacity, but no new information has been revealed, and no new date has been set. Meanwhile, thatgamecompany's Journey was also pushed into 2012, as well as the Studio Ghibli–inspired Ni No Kuni (for non-Japanese audiences, at least). Similarly, despite a passionate attempt by North American fans to get their hands on Xenoblade, they were denied by Nintendo the entire year before finally being thrown an April 2012 release.
Not every title is going to meet its originally scheduled date, especially in an industry moving as fast as this one, but plenty of others managed to push through. Now that everyone is taking stock of their most memorable experiences, we thought it time to take a look back and see how the games we were originally excited for turned out.
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Tags: superbrothers: sword & sworcery ep, groove coaster, catherine, child of eden, el shaddai, L.A. Noire, shadows of the damned, from dust, bulletstorm, ghost trick: phantom detective, new ips, bastion
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