Truth Invaders is an aptly timed game that proports to reveal the lies put forth about both of our country’s political parties. With the elections just around the corner, it seemed like the right game to feature this week.

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This is something that had driven me absolutely nuts. When I started playing Fallout 3 on Tuesday, I decided that it would make sense to map the V.A.T.S. key, which defaults to “V”, to my mouse 4 button instead. After all, I bought this nice fancy mouse specifically so I could do stuff like that. […]

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This week, the fourth and final segment in our series detailing which old movies would make good video games. Gymkata In Parmistan, there is only one law: The Game! Any player that survives the race across the country and through the City of Madness is allowed one request. This is why the United States government […]

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When the sun sets over Lungfishopolis, the white glare of CRT and LCD monitors can be seen shining out of every window. Over the years, our people have spent more hours in front of those monitors than some of us have spent sleeping. We look back fondly on those many hours and weeks spent absorbed […]

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I’ve always been a huge fan of Bullfrog’s Dungeon Keeper. And while the official sequel was a failure, we’ve always got Dungeon Defender to fall back on. Dungeon Defender quite obviously draws its roots from Dungeon Keeper. You play the overlord of a dungeon, which you can dig out using imps minions. You can use […]

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In part three of October’s series on old movies that would make terrific new games, we look at four new games based on decades-old films. While Atari has failed to greenlight Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend, Arthur: Still Stinking Drunk, Teen Wolf: Legend, and Monster Squad vs. the Lost Boys, there are plenty more […]

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I just read an article in Ars Technica about Microsoft’s newly granted patent for real-time censoring of audio streams. I’ve got some mixed feelings on the subject. On one hand, I’m a firm believer in John Gabriel’s Greater Internet F*ckwad Theory, but on the other hand, I’m fairly wary of censorship. I don’t play a […]

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FOMSS, or Fear of Missing Something Syndrome, is something that many of us encounter in different areas of our lives. Sometimes it’s an event, sometimes a movie. In my case, looking at this fall’s smorgasbord of games, I slowly came to realize that I’d never have the free time to play all these games. So […]

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Portal: Prelude is a free fan-made mod of Valve’s Portal. You need to have Portal already installed on your machine to try it, but it’s free. I’ve got some issues with the game. Mainly, that while where the original Portal was about figuring out how to get through a situation, in this game, you’ll generally […]

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In the first installment of Everything Old is New Again, I discussed decades-old movie properties that are ripe for remaking into new game titles, a la Ghostbusters. Since Spielberg made the move from movie director to game designer with Boom Blox, George Lucas has been planning Super Howard the Duck Melee, and Ridley Scott is […]

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