I really, really want to get my hands on some kind of Euphoria demo, in order to either support or assuage my fears regarding the “better than rag doll” solution that Natural Motion has come out with, but I just can’t get over all of the tiny voices in the back of my head that [...]

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Randall Munroe over at the always kickass and occassionally deep webcomic xkcd posted some interesting stats over on his blog last month, where he asks his readers to quickly name a recent popular movie that had two female leads as the top billed stars of the movie.
Naturally, it’s a trick question, as the stats reveal [...]

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Forbes jumps on the “Nintendo is in Trouble!” bandwagon a bit in a recent article lamenting the lack of some GTA IV on the Wii platform. Somehow, they make a mental leap which figures that GTA IV is going to put a dent in or decrease the flow of titles and systems flying off [...]

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So the New York Times released a piece today with “alarming news” that the Wii is “underperforming” in the software sales business compared to Sony and Microsoft, respectively. They trot out the statistic that the Wii only sells 3.7 games per owner per year to the PS3’s and 360’s 4.7 and 4.6 titles, respectively. [...]

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Every 3 months or so, Pottery Barn Kids releases a new catalog, showing off their poorly made and horribly overpriced wares for all of suburbia to drool over. And every 3 months, I typically see yet another pathetic attempt to grasp at the “gaming” zeitgeist by a bunch of ad/catalog people who evidently know [...]

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I finally was able to grab the new patch for Rock Band, the one that gives you the new store, and from a business perspective I find it an awesome experiment in user interface.
Since November of 2007 there’s been quite a few songs released (71 by my count), and I’ve been downloading the ones I’m [...]

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It appears that EA has lost the pulse of the gamer again, so I figured maybe I could lend a hand and help them out.
Microtransactions.  Let’s review:

Awesome when the game is free to play.
Awesome when it adds to an already robust game’s library.
Shitty when you need it to make the game you already bought fun.
Shitty [...]

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As a service for content distrubution, it’s a wonderful thing.
But it seems that at least once a week it is directly in the way of my enjoyment of playing my games.  Tonight’s issue?  Steam servers being updated, so my “Steam Ticket” was in a constant state of being “invalid.”
How many years has this service been [...]

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So, last week folks were pissed about the whole kerfluffle of Blizzard announcing there might be some in-game advertising (was rumored in-game, now verified that it isn’t in-game) in the new StarCraft II.
While many gamers registered their distain for in-game ads on their internet locales of choice, something else has been going on in the [...]

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I’m pretty sure everyone’s on board with this, but maybe not:  Why is it every time Rockstar or Take 2 publishes a game, the media or “concerned citizens” get their panties in a bunch and leagues of people come forward to condemn the game?
I’ve come to the conclusion that Take 2 has come to depend [...]

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