I’m almost done with Dead Space, a game that continues to present me with visions of extreme and total wrongness. But I’m taking a break to actually fire up my PS3, which I don’t do too often, and mess around with LittleBigPlanet, a trailer for which is …
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Dead Space Review: It’s Not Just the Space That’s Dead
Dead Space is out today. But because I’m a member of the East Coast media elite, I’ve actually had a copy for a couple of weeks, which I’ve been playing whenever I’m not out rigging elections and manipulating the stock markets and such. Dead Space is an extremely intense, beautifully produced zombie-survival-horror-first-person-shooter …
The Halo 3 Recon Trailer
Your daily dose of simulated-HUD-porn:
Looks beautiful — I like the sense that they’re going all noir and urban and rainy with this.
Coming 2009. Eh, it’ll be about 5 minutes before somebody builds the whole thing in LittleBigPlanet. Sackboy FTW!
New Halo Wars Trailer
Those crazy Covenants are up to their old artifact-exploring tricks. But were their mandibles always that freaky-looking?
Serena is so the new Cortana …
Hell is an Endless Series of Cut Scenes
I don’t know if anybody else played through Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Of those who did, I don’t know how many of you had trouble killing Darth Maul.
Of course it wasn’t really Darth Maul, since Darth Maul got cut in half by Ewan McGregor in Episode 1. It was this droid called Proxy that holographically turns itself into various …
Bungie Will Release New Halo 3 Content. Wort Wort Wort
Yesterday I got an advance copy of LucasArts’ Fracture in the mail, so I’ve been deforming terrain like a mother. But embargoes are very chic at the moment, and LucasArts has embargoed reviews of the game till October. So that’s all I can say.
In other news, Bungie has released a teaser-thing for a new Halo-related project. The …
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
I’ve been playing this game pretty much non-stop for the past two weeks. Which pretty much tells you what you need to know, since I’m not a completist: I’ll bail on a game pronto if I’m bored.
I don’t really disagree with Tycho’s mixed assessment, but the flaws he names just don’t bug me as much as they seemed to bug him. Just knowing …
E3 by the Trailers
I’m not at E3. I read about it on blogs like a normal person. While I am doing so the only thing I really care about is the trailers. So I’m going to paste all the major trailers together into one post and say things about them. Because I care.
First up: The Sims …
The Video Game BAFTAs: Apparently British People Play Video Games!
The BAFTA Video Game Awards! They’re the British Oscars. Of video games. BAFTA stands for “British Academy of Film and Television Arts.” Oooo, was Jade Raymond wearing Stella McCartney? (For some reason that was the only fashion designer I could think of.)
Short version, they went absolutely insane over Wii Sports. If you’re curious …
BioShock Shocker: It’s Actually As Good They Say It Is
You’ve gotta earn your BioShock: the download’s free on Xbox Live, but it’ll take about 12 hours of your life – or your XBox’s life — to actually secure the data, give or take a month. To my surprise, the results turned out to be unbelievably worth it.
The premise is nonsensical — I’ve read that this game was a tough sell to …
Sony Wants to Sell Surplus PS3 Computing Power. Who Will Say Them Nay?
What is it with Sony having good ideas lately? It’s getting harder to make fun of them. Apparently they’re having so much success with their Folding@Home project (which uses spare processing power on PS3’s to do computation-intensive protein folding simulations for the good of mankind) that Sony is exploring the idea of selling some of …
Those Top 10 Video Games Again
I’m going to — as we say here in corporate America — “circle back” to a post from last week about that list of the 10 most important video games that came out last week.
Some interesting comments on this one. I put my alternative nominees out there, and so did you. Your comments are in quotes, my annotations are in parens:
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