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Cleaning Up
To: Luke From: Owen Re: TGS09 That’s my cat’s new tag. Bear is going to live with a friend and former neighbor back in San Jose, so I got her a tag that reflects her new address and phone number. See, I haven’t been an unreconstructed S.O.B. to everyone who’s lived near me. Which is…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Week in Games; FPS to RTS
Halo Wars deploys this week. Also, MLB: The Show and the MLB 2K updates roll out. The roster: five DS, PS2, PS3, and Wii, four for the 360, three for PC, two for PSP. Monday (March 2) Monster Band (DS) Tuesday (March 3) Brain Challenge Deluxe (PS3) Empire: Total War (PS3) Halo Wars (360) Littlest…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Sunday Timewaster: Zombie Herder
There’s just no quit in the zombie genre. Here’s a flash game whose object is to corral a horde of infected, lest one wander off the screen and kill a human. I had no idea zombies could be considered livestock. Anyhow, this short, to-the-point timekiller just went up this weekend. You can challenge others to…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
If You Wanna Crown Sackboy, Then Crown ‘im
A crown for Sackboy. Sony’s spelled out some new ways to earn one in LittleBigPlanet, but that’s not to say getting crowned is any easier. Sony expects only 50 will be handed out this year. The latest “Sack It to Me” update identifies these three ways to win the rarest piece of DLC in the…
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Report: Dead Space Extraction Will Not Have MotionPlus Support
IGN is saying that earlier news that Dead Space: Extraction would support Wii’s MotionPlus technology “is merely misinterpretation,” according to an unnamed Electronic Arts representative. During a Thursday conference with investors, the Chief Operating Officer John Pleasants discussed MotionPlus support within EA’s Tennis and Tiger Woods 2010 titles. Continuing the thought, he mentioned Dead Space,…
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New Twitter Page Takes Suggestions for “Modern Warfare 2”
Chatter earlier in February hinted that Modern Warfare 2 was in the works; an Infinity Ward Twitter account takes it a step further. They’re taking requests for features in the game and a community site. Set up about a week ago, the Twitter page asks (via Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling): “What are your top feature…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Fake Atari Games 2.0
Fake ports of modern games? Yeah, it’s been done before. Same with cart labels. But someone stuck them on actual carts, which will be hilarious once the next yard sale rolls around. Redbeard Math Pirate on Flickr created 15, spanning the range of cart art on the Atari 2600 – original VCS, second generation, third…
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Lemmy and King Diamond Gameplay Trailers
Here’s two more Guitar Hero: Metallica trailers, featuring Motorhead and King Diamond, showing the headbanging action you won’t see because you’re concentrating on the note highways. Sweet mercyful crap, dig some of those sets. Of course, the full tracklist has already been revealed, but here’s a viewers guide of the songs in each video: Guitar…
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Halo: ODST Mosaic Gets First Day Zero Urban Legend
Bungie was plundered of all its Mythic Map Pack early release codes in about a nanosecond this past week. That hasn’t stopped the hopeful delusional from believing more can be found. In a weekly update that sought to sweep all the begging urchins from their front door, Bungie also included that mosaic, made from screenshots,…
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UncategorizedVideo of Tabula Rasa’s Final Moments
Last night NCSoft shut off Tabula Rasa’s servers. Early word had it that the Bane horde would either wipe out humanity, or humanity would do the job itself with a doomsday weapon. I have never played this game (so have, like, not a lot of people, that’s the reason the servers were being turned off.)…
By Owen Good