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UncategorizedTurn-Based Role-Playing Fans Find a Safe Haven in Chaos Rings II
Final Fantasy fans seeking to relive the glory days of the series when enemies were on one side of the screen and waited their turn have a new champion on the iPhone in Square Enix’s Chaos Rings II. As with Chaos Rings and Chaos Rings Omega before it, Chaos Rings II is a turn-based role-playing…
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UncategorizedEvery Half-Life Fan’s Worst Nightmare
The moment all Valve and Half-Life fans have been waiting for might be revealed at this year’s E3, predicts YouTube user aekime. But will it be the big reveal everyone is sitting on the edge of their seats for? At least Gabe will apparently make the most amazing entrance ever. Fair warning: This video is…
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UncategorizedHorrible Food and Video Games Used to Date Back in the 80s
Video game historian Patrick Scott Patterson writes, “Anyone who claims video games cause child obesity might had more of a case in the 1980s.” Here’s more than eight glorious minutes’ worth of commercials that explain why we were fat in the 1980s. Video game food tie-ins are alive and well today, of course. The difference…
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UncategorizedLaugh Through 16 Minutes of This Bubsy Collection Review
Have you ever played a Bubsy game? If you have, you’re undoubtedly familiar with the lackluster controls and odd bobcat mascot who talks… a little too much. If you haven’t, JonTron is here to warn you to keep it that way. Leave your 90s gaming memories untarnished by this platformer. I wouldn’t normally recommend 16-minute…
By Tina Amini - Uncategorized
Tuesday Watch This, Play This
Watch! You probably didn’t need this review of the Bubsy collection, but it’s worth watching anyway. Watch! This is what video game and food ad tie-ins looked like in the 80s. Play! Need a new RPG to play on your iPhone? Fahey suggests Chaos Rings II Watch! One fan’s prediction of Valve’s E3 this year.
By Tina Amini - Uncategorized
The Mystery of The Hunger Games Facebook Game
The Hunger Games opened last Friday to sold-out theaters nationwide. Bringing in over $150 million in ticket sales, it claims the third-best opening weekend in terms of revenue in the history of blockbuster cinema. Where there’s a movie, there’s a game tie-in. For The Hunger Games, audiences were promised two. One is iOS side-scroller The…
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UncategorizedSaudi Arabia Banned This Shoe Shopping Game for Sounding Too Sexy
Shoe Wars is a simple little iPhone jumper about a woman looking for shoes at the mall, an activity many would consider a blissful experience. A little too blissful if you ask Saudi Arabia. The relatively harmless free iPhone app features a woman carrying a shopping bag jumping from platform to platform in a never-ending…
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UncategorizedPreorders Begin for Old School Dungeon Crawler The Legend of Grimrock
The first-person grid-based PC dungeon crawler rises again on April 11, when indie developer Almost Human releases The Legend of Grimrock on Steam and GOG.com. Act now and it’s far cheaper than it should be. You might recall The Legend of Grimrock from a story I posted about the developers changing the game to accommodate…
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