05/07/08
They always say first impressions
are the strongest. Making a good one is important when getting to know people. Making a bad one can be tough to overcome, but with some luck you might get to have a good laugh. Guess which kind I have in mind? As I was out merrily working to hone my PVP skills and regularly getting splattered all over screens worldwide, I decided to have go at it on the cheap using a free rookie ship, one of the little Reapers. The....
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05/05/08
Run-and-gun videogame basketball really
got its start in the arcades, when NBA Jam introduced its over-the-top style and mixed NBA all-stars with, if you knew the codes, a handful of unlockable players like Bill Clinton and "Air Dog." In the years since, Midway and EA have traded shots with their NBA Ballers and NBA Street franchises, respectively, both of which have brought the arcade action home with a bit more hip-hop flair. Midway's latest....
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05/01/08
I was flipping through the
latest issue of Game Informer at a friend's house the other day, and as I looked at the advertisements, I realized something: I no longer knew all the upcoming games for all the systems like I used to. The ads were all over the place, page after page full of so many games I had never even heard of. But somehow they were all familiar. A lot of them looked like games I'd already seen, but in a slightly different shade. You may....
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04/30/08
It's safe to say most consumers' first
, if not only, exposure to Jason Bourne was the series of Bourne films starring Matt Damon. Sure, Robert Ludlum may have written a few novels, but Hollywood reigns supreme when it comes to mass-media action, and, well, Matt Damon's version of Jason Bourne is 100 percent action. With that in mind, it's a bit disconcerting to fire up The Bourne Conspiracy for the first time on the good ol' next-gen console....
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04/30/08
A philosophy I try to adhere to says not to judge things, but to take them as they are, essentially accepting that "it is what it is." This line of thinking brings to mind the user interface in EVE Online, notably that your character is, for most practical purposes, a ship rather than a person. What effect on game play does that have? As a fairly typical male of my species--I leave the identity thereof to your imagination and sense of humor--I note that in EVE Online....
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