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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At the beginning of the year, when the Wii version of Okami was released, someone noticed something odd about the cover art on the box – there was an IGN watermark on the Okami art! Shortly thereafter, Capcom announced “Okami Cover Artwork Redemption” – basically, they planned to cover up their colossal mistake via distraction. […]

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There’s been a lot of chatter over teh intarwebs in the past few months about whether the iPhone will overtake the PSP or even the DS as a gaming platform. It is my firm belief that for a number of reasons this will never happen. Granted, from a certain perspective, everything Apple touches turns to […]

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After ten days of playing, I finally finished Saints Row 2 and sent my review off to be posted.  I played for about 20 hours, gained 45 neighborhoods, completed 56 missions, tried dozens of activities, earned hundreds of thousands of dollars and killed hundreds of people.  The game is great, and I had a fantastic […]

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This game is part of the Retro Remakes project. I remember playing The Hobbit on my Commodore 64. I never really got any further than the goblins’ cells, but that’s largely because I had no walkthroughs back then, and I suck at adventure games. If you like adventure games, or retro games, give it a […]

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With the announcement of the new Ghostbusters video game, and the already successful Princess Bride video game, one is left to wonder what other decades-old movie properties are ripe for remaking into brilliant new high-definition gaming masterworks. Because I know so many game developers follow this site, I’ve decided to offer a few of my […]

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