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Less Is More

Remember the trailer we posted for El Shaddai? Now, at the time, I couldn’t exactly tell what was gameplay and what was a cinematic. Now, I realize why: there was no HUD that cried out “THIS IS GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE,” and

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Less Is More

Remember the trailer we posted for El Shaddai? Now, at the time, I couldn’t exactly tell what was gameplay and what was a cinematic. Now, I realize why: there was no HUD that cried out “THIS IS GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE,” and

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Alejo is the Best Soccer Player Out There

Enough with E3 for a while! Brazil is not the most patriotic country I know. In fact, Brazilians are almost anti-patriotic. When they watch the people of the USA screaming U – S – A! U – S – A!,

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Alejo is the Best Soccer Player Out There

Enough with E3 for a while! Brazil is not the most patriotic country I know. In fact, Brazilians are almost anti-patriotic. When they watch the people of the USA screaming U – S – A! U – S – A!,

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El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEZj5zt5PZw&feature=player_embedded] Brought to you by some of the guys behind Viewtiful and Okami is El Shaddai, a title loosely based on the Book of Enoch. You play as the Enoch, actually, in a quest to save humanity from fallen angels.

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El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEZj5zt5PZw&feature=player_embedded] Brought to you by some of the guys behind Viewtiful and Okami is El Shaddai, a title loosely based on the Book of Enoch. You play as the Enoch, actually, in a quest to save humanity from fallen angels.

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Why We Paint

If a single trend in gaming pulled a comeback at E3 this year, it was games based around creation, the process of or the tools of. Outside of the obvious games in the Dream Build Play line from Sony and

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Why We Paint

If a single trend in gaming pulled a comeback at E3 this year, it was games based around creation, the process of or the tools of. Outside of the obvious games in the Dream Build Play line from Sony and

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A Sign of Things To Come

“What people want are simpler, more accessible games that are easier to play and solve”–Iwata, 2003 You probably had no idea of what Iwata meant at the time. None of us could. Who could predict the DS, the Wii–who could

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A Sign of Things To Come

“What people want are simpler, more accessible games that are easier to play and solve”–Iwata, 2003 You probably had no idea of what Iwata meant at the time. None of us could. Who could predict the DS, the Wii–who could

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5 Steps to Not Having Your E3 Press Conference Suck

It’s been less than half an hour since the Microsoft Press Conference and I’ve gotta say, I barely watched any of it. Instead, I cleaned up the place, as the previous weekend had amalgamated a pile of video game cases,

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5 Steps to Not Having Your E3 Press Conference Suck

It’s been less than half an hour since the Microsoft Press Conference and I’ve gotta say, I barely watched any of it. Instead, I cleaned up the place, as the previous weekend had amalgamated a pile of video game cases,

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Weekend Note: Uncharted Awe

Things! They happened last week! More things! They are happening right now. I will don last week as the ‘week of trailers,’ because we posted lots of those in our news items. You see children, the awesome marketing tactic used

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Weekend Note: Uncharted Awe

Things! They happened last week! More things! They are happening right now. I will don last week as the ‘week of trailers,’ because we posted lots of those in our news items. You see children, the awesome marketing tactic used

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Nintendo, I was wrong and you were right. Now give me some more tutorials.

It’s absurd how much knowledge we amass from our hobbies. A critic like Roger Ebert might know more about movies than I ever will. I know some soccer players who know far more maneuvers than I care to know (I

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Nintendo, I was wrong and you were right. Now give me some more tutorials.

It’s absurd how much knowledge we amass from our hobbies. A critic like Roger Ebert might know more about movies than I ever will. I know some soccer players who know far more maneuvers than I care to know (I

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A Moral Conundrum

MAG just reached over one billion in bodycount, and I’m sitting here, thinking to myself, why does it come down to this? Up until a few years ago, I played the RPG genre almost exclusively. Then high school rolled around

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A Moral Conundrum

MAG just reached over one billion in bodycount, and I’m sitting here, thinking to myself, why does it come down to this? Up until a few years ago, I played the RPG genre almost exclusively. Then high school rolled around

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Thoughts on VIP Map Pack 3 for BFBC2

Today I played a few matches of squad deathmatch on Nelson Bay, and I’ve got to say it: Nelson Bay must be the best map on the SDM mode. A bold claim? Perhaps. Hear me out. Nelson Bay features just

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Thoughts on VIP Map Pack 3 for BFBC2

Today I played a few matches of squad deathmatch on Nelson Bay, and I’ve got to say it: Nelson Bay must be the best map on the SDM mode. A bold claim? Perhaps. Hear me out. Nelson Bay features just

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