In 1982, with Christmas rapidly approaching, Atari began work on a game based on the ultra-popular film, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. After paying a reported twenty-five million dollars for the game rights, Atari gave programmer Howard ...
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Xbox 360Army of TwoBully: Scholarship EditionMLB 2K8 Playstation 3Army of TwoMLB 08: The ShowMLB 2K8 WiiBully: Scholarship EditionMLB 2K8Ninja Reflex DSBubble Bobble: Double ShotLet’s Ride Friends ForeverAnno 1701Chicken HunterEco Creatures: Save the ForestImagine: Figure SkaterMystery ...
Read More »Weekly Roundup: Turn Off Your Videogames Edition
We wish presidential hopeful Barack Obama would apply his change motif to his outdated and stereotypical views of media usage. Yesterday while in Beaumont, Texas, Obama remarked, “It’s not good enough for you to say ...
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After last week’s legal ramblings, this didn’t come as a complete surprise. Yesterday, MKR Group filed suit against Dead Rising publisher Capcom stating that the game was a bit too close in tone to the ...
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If you’re like us, you’re probably burned out on GDC news and videos. But trust us, you’ll want to watch this one. Instead of throwaway Gears Of War 2 imagry, this clip features wild animals, ...
Read More »New Releases 2/24-3/1: THQ Release Week
This week publisher THQ releases three new titles, in their ongoing attempt to dominate shelf space. While Frontlines: Fuel of War and Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed may be worthy of your coffers (we ...
Read More »Weekly Roundup: Good For You, Good For Me, It’s GDC!
The Game Developers Conference has come a long way since it’s inception in 1987, where it was humbly located in Balance of Power creator Chris Crawford’s living room. Now, the largest annual gathering of game ...
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With The Club, developer Bizarre Creations has taken the trigger-finger twitch of Geometry Wars and somehow merged it with the finesse of Program Gotham Racing 4. The basic premise of the game resolves directing one ...
Read More »New Releases 2/17-2/23 Rehash Edition
It looks like publishers have caught the sequel-itis bug, as there is only one title that hasn’t seen a prequel, or been released on another system. Somewhere Xzibit is popping Crystal, as his Pimp My ...
Read More »Random Number Generator Weekly Roundup
Two Dead Rising Games? It seems Capcom has filed a complaint with the MKR Group, owner of the Dawn of the Dead film copyright. The publisher is claiming that “humans battling zombies in a shopping ...
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