January 2012
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WatchIt DOES still exist! I was just thinking about this the other day! Last year, Microsoft revealed plans to release an iteration of Dungeon Fighter Online for the Xbox Live Arcade that was slated to be the first completely free-to-play title, with profits generated solely from microtransations just like the computer game. It’s great to see the project is still alive, because DFO is such a fun...
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Big Huge Games' Kingdoms of Amalur and Bioware's...
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning—Big Huge Games’ upcoming action-RPG—is just under a month away from its February 7th release, and I couldn’t be more excited about it. I’m willing to bet before even playing the demo scheduled to drop on Tuesday, January 17th that it’s going to be in my top five of 2012! If you haven’t already been following this one,...
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EA's NFL Blitz: 15 years later, it still rules.
Despite releasing only 72 hours ago, EA’s resurrection of classic Midway gridiron series NFL Blitz is being flamed hard on pretty much every forum I’ve visited so far. Most of the hate is premature and based solely on speculation, but some of the complaints I’ve read can be legitimized by considering that the newest generation of gamers may have never experienced the...
December 2011
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November 2011
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This mroing, I officially quit Dark Souls.
Warning: this post contains mild spoilers for Dark Souls (NPC names, locations, broad strategies).
Up until October, I’ve always considered myself to be an above-average gamer with a hardened tolerance for difficulty, but goodness gracious, Dark Souls has kicked my ass so many times now that I’ve officially given up.
It started last night when I decided to make yet another feeble...
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October 2011
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September 2011
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“As in the original, each exchange direction – up, down or left/right – bestows a...”
– Changes made to aerial crossover combos in the upcoming Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3.
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August 2011
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July 2011
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Darksiders: I hope your wit is as sharp as the...
I don’t think I ever died during my complete play through Vigil Games’ Darksiders, but consider this: when you’re War—one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse—it takes a lot to bring you down. In fact, I think the only time I watched my character languish in defeat was the opening cutscene when I found out that heaven tricked me into attempting to bring about the...
June 2011
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Pokemon Black and White EV Training Guide by...
If you’ve ever read a walkthrough online, you’d probably expect to see some nifty Pokemon Black and White ASCII design right here, but I’m not even going to make an attempt at something like that. The result would probably be pretty hilarious, though—hi, I’m ROFLTOMCAT, and this is my Pokemon Black and White EV Training Guide.
If you don’t know what EV...
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VANQUISH: a game so crazy that even the developers...
Before SEGA and Platinum Games released VANQUISH in October of 2010, they uploaded two distinctly different demos to the Xbox Live game marketplace—that’s how badly they wanted gamers to play it. While only the aptly dubbed “VELOCITY ATTACK” remains available now, their unprecedented strategy must have paid off, as the game fell just shy of selling a million copies...
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Hunted: the Demon's Forge
This week my brother and I formed a party and embarked on an epic quest to purchase a brand new 250GB Xbox 360 Slim in preparation for his lengthy summer internship. We were eventually successful, and along with the console he also picked up a copy of FIFA 2011 (he’s always been a huge soccer fan and owns most iterations of the game) and a copy of CoD: Black Ops to play with me and his best...
May 2011
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Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012: Why I'm okay with...
When Duels of the Planeswalkers came out on the Xbox Live Arcade about a year ago, I downloaded the trial; my interest was piqued because I love card battling games, and I had many fond memories of Magic: the Gathering with my little brother and my cousin. We never really knew any of the rules, but we got the basic gist—tap some mana, summon some creatures, cast some spells, have some fun....
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Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale (or: DnD:DD)
It’s Wednesday, and now that the Xbox live marketplace is back up and running and my intense feelings of deja-vu-induced paranoia have subsided, I finally got to download Dungeons and Dragons: Daggerdale, or as my friends and I have taken to calling it, DnD:DD (pronounced ”deeyandeedeedee”).
DnD:DD promises “hack-and-slash” action in its description...
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Denis Dyack & Silicon Knights still want to finish... →
By Odin’s beard, there is fucking hope for me! Still waiting on those extra classes as DLC, by the way! Despite Dyack’s claims that Too Human has sold over 700,000 copies since it came out in 2008, I remain thoroughly convinced that Coldsnap Bryan and I are the only two people who ever actually played and enjoyed this game.
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April 2011
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Mortal Kombat reboot looks absolutely TOASTY.
Oh my goodness, it’s been WAY too long since I’ve written something on here! The month of March was one of those glorious periods where I was so enthralled by the titles I’d been playing that I could hardly be bothered to avert my gaze from my television to the horizon to see what other titles may be cresting the sun-soaked hills. Uh, in this metaphor, it’s morning. Maybe...
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ELF MONSTER CRYSTAL GO!
Or, Pokemon Vietname Crystal: Part 1 (of 30, for now…)
Two sentences in and I’m in tears already. From this moment onward, I think I may officially begin referring to “Pokemon” as “Elf Monster.” ELF MONSTER BLACK GO!
March 2011
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Marvel vs Capcom 3 Shadow Battle 01 is up for...
Features three (incredibly easy) challenges against MVC3 developer ghosts that unlock three new titles (the very ones that read “Defeat an opponent who has this title”). I won’t spoil what the titles are, but you won’t have any problems unlocking them for yourself.
Click here to add Shadow Pack 01 to your Xbox Live download queue.
February 2011
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After a decade of waiting, Marvel vs Capcom 3...
It’s so true. After having logged like 15+ hours spread out across arcade mode, mission mode, versus mode, countless player matches with my friends, and even a few ranked matches (on special occasions when I was lucky enough to get into them), I feel like I can say that Marvel vs Capcom 3 is pretty much perfect to me.
Yes, it may also be true that there really isn’t a spectator mode...
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January 2011
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bwickman:
johnXjackson - We Can’t Stop Here,...
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2010 Video Gaming Year in Review, part 1 from... →
What a great read; concise, yet thorough enough to make me feel really nostalgic and want to revisit so many completed games sitting on my shelves.
Oh man, I clearly remember May 18th, 2010! I worked an opening shift at Gamestop that day. I organized the drawers and wanted to buy Red Dead Redemption, Alan Wake, and Split/Second all at once. To this day, I still haven’t even played Alan...
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December 2010
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Last night, I beat Call of Duty: Black Ops on...
And I had a blast!
From the beginning I told myself, “Dude, you have to play the story mode before you jump online—otherwise, you’ll never look back and you’ll eventually force yourself to rush through the campaign just so you can get back into the team deathmatch action.” Unfortunately, this foreshadowing is not unfounded, as that’s exactly what happened when...
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“The ancient evil dragon Planeswalker Nicol Bolas commanded Sarkhan Vol to guard...”
– Xbox Live Marketplace
Magic: the Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers—Expansion Pack 3