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Posted on 09.17.08 by Widge @ 7:51 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Geoff Johns has been announced as the scribe for the "back story" of the DC Universe Online "massively multiplayer action game" coming out from Sony. When asked about the MMAG label, an unidentified source who was either a DC Comics editor or a hot dog vendor or both said, "We didn't want to call it a 'massively multiplayer online role playing game' because people don't want roles to play. They want action. And darkness. And hot dogs." Why does the DC game need a back story? Aren't the comics the back story? Categorized as: Games
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Posted on 09.12.08 by Widge @ 7:00 am
Comments on this: just one. Add your own. So poeTV pointed out this original Tetris commercial, which offered you the option of being Tetricized. Which just sounds perverse. I especially love the introduction of the various shapes for people who, like me, were educated in Alabama. Very kind of them. Direct link for the feedreaders. Watching this got me thinking...what about all of my other favorite games of yore? What commercials did they have? Would I remember them? Did I have a childhood at all and was it all implanted memories as it was recently revealed I am just a walking NASA experiment? Categorized as: Games
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Posted on 08.12.08 by Widge @ 2:26 am
Comments on this: 2 so far. Add your own.  Okay, so this is very cool. Jochen from Germany pinged me shortly after we first posted our Zombie Munchkin rules. And had thoughts about creating an actual card, since, you know, I can't freaking draw to save my life. So drafted into things was artist Daniel Bradford--because he draws wicked cool dead things--and he created a new back to the cards. And Jochen put together actual Munchkin Zombie race cards that you can print out and use in your games of undead Munchkin goodness. You can download them in English and German here. As always, Munchkin is a product of Steve Jackson Games, created by Steve Jackson and John Kovalic, and it's their own damn fault people feel driven to do such things, in my humble opinion. If you don't own Munchkin, fix that, would you? Categorized as: Games
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Posted on 07.14.08 by Widge @ 8:46 pm
Comments on this: 15 so far. Add your own.  Guitar Hero and Rock Band now have a new contender: Guitar Praise. No, I'm serious. Now you can rock out to "today's most popular Contemporary Christian rock hits." Why would anybody want a Christian-based Guitar Hero clone? Tom Bean, head burrito of Digital Praise, Inc., sez "People love the console guitar games on the market, but many would like more family-friendly songs and graphics." They also put the lyrics on screen, which is apparently innovative. "Having the lyrics onscreen reinforces the positive messages present in Guitar Praise's roster of songs, and allows everyone to take part in the game." That's right, so now when you want to rock out to Eric Carmen and Jars of Clay and...um...early Amy Grant...and...never mind. I don't know any other Christian musical acts. Moving on. Of course, not everyone is happy about this: Clearrawk, a company that was taking Guitar Hero and Rock Band games and editing out all the bad stuff so that people could rock out to "Sabotage" and not feel Satan's pull, might get put out of business by this move. I suppose they'd better pray on it. Categorized as: Games
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Posted on 06.05.08 by Oblique Red @ 10:41 am
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US Release Date: February 10, 2008 Professor Layton and the Curious Village was released in Japan in 2007 to great success, spawning two sequels and a planned manga series. The English version of the game was released this February and has thus far been very well received by US gamers. Concept This is a hybrid game, the sort of thing that might result if a point-and-click adventure ate a book of brainteasers and then had a baby with a European cartoon (the developer has dubbed the genre "puzzle adventure"). You control the titular Professor Layton, a noted puzzle solver (you can apparently get famous for that - who knew?) With his young apprentice, Luke, in tow, the Professor has come to the town of St. Mystère to find a mysterious treasure alluded to in the will of a wealthy Baron. Naturally, once you arrive in town, this simple task becomes rapidly more complicated, and you are trapped in the town until you solve a number of mysteries. Categorized as: Games and Reviews
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