Baseball and hockey are my two least favorite major league sports, a comment that doesn’t exactly make me unique among American males. The irony, of course, is that baseball is known as “America’s pastime” even in an era when football and basketball rule the roost. But with that context as a backdrop, Sony’s achievements with […]
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The next console generation hits this fall, but Ubisoft wants us to not lose sight of the present generation, and in fact even look to the past. The Old West past. Call of Juarez: Gunslinger will soon release on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, and judging by the details released today about the game’s protagonist,
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I’ve been a fan of the Sly Cooper franchise since its debut a decade ago, when Sucker Punch introduced PS2 owners to its gorgeous cell-shaded platformer with kid-friendly cast. The game’s mix of stealth, platforming and level design had a certain charm to it that gripped me through three games in the series. Eventually the
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More than a year after the release of Skyrim, the game is still going strong, and it’s one of my favorite games. One of the ways Bethesda is keeping Skyrim fresh is through a batch of DLC, which has recently taken the form of Hearthfire and Dawnguard. I’ve prepared short reviews of both in anticipation
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More than a year after the release of Skyrim, the game is still going strong. It’s one of my favorite games at any rate. So, of course I gladly accept an excuse to stay up until the wee hours of the morning being the Dovahkiin. Initially, I played Skyrim on the PS3, including all the
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For all the hubbub about social games and the lack of needing more horsepower in the next console generation, Sony unveiled the PlayStation 4 last night with more horsepower than Budweiser’s Clydesdale carriage. Nintendo certainly upgraded the Wii U compared to the original Wii, but that was largely an HD and processing necessity. Sony’s upgrades
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So much for the next generation of consoles not being about horsepower. For all the speculation about whether the next PlayStation or Xbox would focus strictly on social gaming, gesture-based controls and casual titles, skipping the beefy processing and graphical specs that have carried us for the past two outings, Sony promptly kicked the speculators
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Rockstar Games today unveiled the release date for Grand Theft Auto 5 (GTA V), which is sweet news to millions of gamers’ ears. Unless you own a Nintendo Wii U, in which case you’re out of luck, as Rockstar did not announce a Wii U version in development. Rockstar failed to unveil whether GTA V
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It appears that all is not well in the land that Mario built, with Nintendo reducing its sales forecast for the Wii U console just two months after the system’s launch. The downward adjustment comes at a time when game-industry aficionados and media are starting to ramp-up speculation about the innovative capabilities of the next
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When I saw the ads for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, my reaction was “We’ve been here before, I recognize that tree.” Actually, to be honest, it was a tad more skeptical, something like “Oh, so Sony finally made a Super Smash Brothers.” It turns out that while my statement was snarky, it wasn’t completely inaccurate,
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