September 2010
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In this, the third episode of Jump Jump Die, we...
August 2010
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Busted! →
Unreality has gathered a nice list of video game urban legends. We’d heard about Bigfoot in San Andreas, but Leatherface is new to us. Still no word on whether you can unlock a video of the Working Designs localization team robotripping in the Sega CD version of Lunar II: Eternal Blue. (Hint: You cannot.)
Along similar lines, GameTrailers.com is currently running a video series called...
A Loss for Real Money
We enjoy Xbox Live a great deal. We pay money to use it. We even sat through hours of live 1 vs. 100 games on the off chance our dancing avatar might win some precious Microsoft Points. See, we love many of the things Xbox Live will trade a person in exchange for Microsoft Points, but we hate purchasing the Points themselves.
It’s an old complaint but a valid one. Microsoft Points must...
Here’s episode 2 of Jump Jump Die, the video...
Please Explain
So, after twelve years, they release a slightly prettier version of their sci-fi RTS, and the world rejoices. After eleven years, they will release a slightly prettier version of their fantasy dungeon crawler, and the world will rejoice.
We believe Blizzard is a company of witches embroiled in a demon’s bargain. It’s the only explanation.
WatchA floating city. Dirigibles. This is what we wanted in a BioShock sequel. Consider us excited for BioShock Infinite. Read Destructoid’s in-depth preview here.
The Great Edgar Wright Talks to the Great Elvis...
If the embed doesn’t work properly, you can listen here.
Woman arrested for using Xboxes as sex bait →
Personally, we’re most upset by the fact that she drives a Hummer. It’s 2010, lady. “The earth” should be listed as one of her rape victims.
(Allegedly.)
The New GamePro
We first subscribed to GamePro as preteens. To help pay its substantial legal bills, our school employed child labor to sell magazines through some third-party organization of opportunists and madmen. We’d guilt our relatives and family friends into re-upping with Marie Claire or Cat Fancy at inflated prices, the third-party organization would shave a little off the top, and the school...
“Some say I’m being cocky. Some say I’m being lazy. I say, I’m...”
– Donkey Kong champion Billy Mitchell explicating his supervillainous behavior.
“I get told off a lot at home about playing computer games. I’m playing Red...”
– Peter Molyneux on the phenomenally creepy behavior his wife finds charming. Plus, a discussion of whether his little boy-friending simulation Milo might set off an Amber Alert. In conversation with USA Today.
Word Games
We own a Kindle. We love our Kindle. But we would never want to play games on our Kindle. We also love A Tale of Two Cities, but we would never want to play games on that, either. A Tale of Two Cities, like a Kindle, is for reading. And reading A Tale of Two Cities on a Kindle? Whoo boy. That’s something.
Despite this ironclad logic, people are producing games for the Kindle. Which...
Scratch and Sniff
We aren’t certain, but we’re pretty sure the gentleman we met at the Jiffy Lube this morning smelled almost exactly like one of the scratch and sniff cards included with the player’s guide to EarthBound (known to Japanese gamers and Japanese fetishists as MotherTruckers IV). Can you guess which one? (Click the post title to embiggen.)
Hint: This gentleman could accurately be...
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
We just finished Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands. Despite our love of the franchise (yes, even the bastard reboot), we’d been avoiding this one. We assumed it was a movie tie-in, because we’re not careful readers. We are idiot people.
It sure is fun, though. Yes, the combat is one-button and repetitive. Yes, the story is perfunctory. Yes, the puzzles are obvious. Yes, the...
“How did we kill time before smartphones? I honestly can’t recall. I have a vague...”
– The lovely and talented Paul F. Tompkins on iPhone gaming, Angry Birds, and The Science People for Future Tense.
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