Donkey Kong Country Returns | Hands-on Impressions: PAX Prime 2010
Donkey Kong Country Returns debuted at this year’s E3 with a wave of nostalgia attached. The first new game for Donkey Kong in years and the first non-Metroid Prime game by the acclaimed Retro Studios,...
View ArticleKillzone 3 – Hands-on Impressions: PAX Prime 2010
Killzone 3 is one of the first full PlayStation 3 games to support 3D. At this year’s PAX, the game was playable in both single and multiplayer and in 3D. Since I haven’t been able to get my hands on a...
View ArticleDead Space 2 | Hands-on Impressions: PAX Prime 2010
Dead Space 2 was one of the games I was looking forward to seeing at the show. I was a huge fan of the original game, and I wanted to make sure that in creating the sequel, the team at Visceral didn’t...
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Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie | Review
At last, the holy grail of Warhammer 40k fans the world over has arrived–a 40k movie! Penned by the master himself, Dan Abnett, produced by Codex Pictures and directed by Martyn Pick, it tells a...
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Back to the Future…with a Warhammer by Aaron Dembski-Bowden
I The Appeal of Getting Your Ass Kicked Back when I was a kid, in that era of willing vulnerability when we’re all sponging up ideas and inspiration to form our adult tastes, I saw something in the...
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Deadpool | Badass of the Week
“Destiny doesn’t care that I’ve made sacrifices to get here. That I’ve said my prayers and brushed after meals. Destiny wants a garbage man… and I’m always it. Bang bang. I’m Deadpool. You’re Dead. A...
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GrimDark II: Loose Canon | by Aaron Dembski-Bowden
To: Aaron Dembski-Bowden Subject: Space Marine Power Armour Dear Mr. Dembski-Bowden, In your novel ‘I Remember When I Totally Puked That Time’, you said that power armour functions by X going into Y....
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GrimDark III: Warhammer Race War! by Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Now we’ve done the overview, let’s get into the crunchy stuff. Let’s start a Race War. Or rather, let’s talk about the race war already in progress, since that’s the heart of 40K’s conflict. Given the...
View ArticleOkami: A Myth in the Making (a retrospective)
It’s a rare opportunity to be a PS2 owner. Even after the system’s discontinuation, department stores are more likely than not to have at least a bin with a mish-mash pile o’ PS2 games, usually with a...
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Geek Girl’s Guide to Surviving College | Geek Girl Navigating the World
It’s getting to be that time of year again, when thousands and thousands of starry-eyed sprockets launch their college careers. Hopefully, they’re eager and excited, but, likely, there’s also some...
View ArticleMemories of Wing Commander
There aren’t many things from my youth that I truly miss, but one of the members of that elite group is the space combat flight simulator game. Once quite common, they are all but unknown today, and...
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – better than Oblivion in every way
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is an amazing game, one that people have sunk literally hundreds of hours into, but it’s far from perfect. The producers of the followup The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim know...
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The Revival of Classic 2-D Action Games
One of the less appreciated benefits of the ubiquitous online connections in the current generation of consoles is that it has helped to resuscitate some types of classic gameplay that had all but...
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THE LORD OF THE RINGS: WAR IN THE NORTH – Another Lackluster LOTR title?
Snowblind Studios recently came to NYC to show off The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, with a fully playable level in tow. This is obviously the latest title in what’s become a huge gaming...
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RPGs I didn’t get to play: The 8-bit years
I had the bad timing to become a console RPG fan at the dawn of the 1990s. This was originally due to a promotional gimmick run by Nintendo Power magazine in which they gave away a free copy of the...
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RPGs I never got to play: The 16-bit era
Last time, we had a look at a few of the 8-bit Japanese role-playing games that, due to the cruel realities of the 1980s video game market, never made it to America. Sadly, the dawning of the 16-bit...
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Thoughts on Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII-2
Final Fantasy XIII -2 from Square Enix is coming out at the end of this month, continuing the story of Lightning and the other characters from Final Fantasy XIII and the world they inhabit. And I’m...
View ArticleMass Effect 3: Multiplayer that actually interests me
I’m not typically a fan of online multiplayer modes in games. I’m not suited for it; I’m generally not very competitive, not very social, and I just find a well-designed single player scenario much...
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Setting the mood: Mass Effect 3’s “Take Earth Back” trailer
Bioware recently put out a new trailer for Mass Effect 3, entitled “Take Earth Back.” I quite liked it, and it’s a nice example of how a trailer like this can be effective that’s worth taking a closer...
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Reporting from Constellation IV: A New Hope | Geek Girl Navigating the World
Growing up geeky in the Midwest often presents special challenges. You’re not only trying to deal with the fact that you like “weird” stuff anyway, but the chances that someone else will like the...
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