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By Kristen Spencer, May 12, 2011 Comments Off News

Seeing as it’s set in an irradiated wasteland, you’d expect some freakish sights in Fallout: New Vegas, but it had way more spinning heads and moonwalking dogs than mere genetic mutation could account for. It was glitchy.  At times game-breakingly… Read More »

By Kristen Spencer, May 9, 2011 Comments Off News

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has announced the winners, chosen by popular vote, of their “Art of Video Games” exhibit. More than 3.7 million votes from 175 countries were cast in the open-to-the-public-poll to select the majority of the titles,… Read More »

By Kristen Spencer, May 6, 2011 Comments Off News

If you found the number of items on Brink‘s heads-up display a bit overwhelming, your mind will most definitely be boggled by this number – 102,247,681,536,000,000. That’s how many total unique characters you can create in Splash Damage’s upcoming shooter,… Read More »

By Kristen Spencer, April 30, 2011 Comments Off News

What do you do when your controversy courting iOS game about shuttling illegal immigrants across the border gets rejected by Apple’s arbiters of good taste? Why, you just tweak some art assets so Smuggle Truck becomes Snuggle Truck! “The changes… Read More »

By Kristen Spencer, April 28, 2011 Comments Off News

Despite its mediocre Metacritic score, I enjoyed the hell out of Call of Juarez: Bound In Blood, Techland’s surprisingly sturdy take on the nitty, gritty western. Hence my confusion over Call of Juarez: The Cartel, which trades the best part… Read More »

By Kristen Spencer, April 28, 2011 Comments Off News

The console port of The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf never materialized, though not for lack of trying, but there’s still hope that The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings will be coming to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 as… Read More »

By Kristen Spencer, April 26, 2011 Comments Off News

Okamiden, Minecraft, and World of Warcraft have all put their game-specific spin on that timeless staple of elegant casual wear, the Three Wolf Moon t-shirt, but there’s just something about Valve’s take on the fashion forward meme. I think it’s… Read More »

By Kristen Spencer, April 21, 2011 Comments Off News

Angry Birds fills Epic Games’ heart with, unironically, anger. Their hatred is not reserved solely for revenge-seeking avians, but pretty much all cheap mobile games, and in particular the dreaded dollar app, which the developer claims will be the death… Read More »

By Kristen Spencer, April 18, 2011 Comments Off News

For those of you who missed out on American McGee’s Alice, the delightfully dark PC and MAC-only release that marked EA’s first foray into M-rated games, you’ll get you chance this June 14. The developer has confirmed that the upcoming… Read More »

By Kristen Spencer, April 14, 2011 Comments Off News

L.A. Noire, Rockstar Games’ decent into a hard-boiled 1940′s pulp detective novel, has reached my favorite stage of the game development life cycle – the ESRB description, which reveals all sorts of story details, coupled with an as always way… Read More »