For as long as there have been video games, there have been ridiculous and stupid video game bosses. From the FBI Agent in Atari’s E.T. to Letz Shake in No More Heroes, who blew himself up before you ever got to fight him, ludicrous game bosses have a long and rich history. I’ve taken it […]

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Well, it’s been a few months, time for game developers to start complaining about used game sales hurting their bottom line.  Even the sales juggernaut that is Halo has to throw their helmet into the ring and say that the used game market has undoubtedly hurt their sales. Here’s the quote that bugs me the […]

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I’ve been avoiding listing browser games in the Free Game Friday feature, but I’m beginning to see that without using at least the odd browser game here and there, I have no chance of finding enough good titles. Fantastic Contraption is a very cool physics-based puzzle game wherein you need to assemble wheels and spokes […]

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Recently, I fired up the copy of Okami that’s been sitting on my shelf for months, gathering dust and cat hair. After the initial half hour of text-reading, when the game actually started, I was completely shocked at how good it looked. This is a Wii game, ported from the original Gamecube version – it’s […]

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I’ve been playing games for a long time. As a kid, I played Pong at my next door neighbor’s house on his pong machine, before he ever got ColecoVision. I played Crazy Kong on the old arcade machine at the Cumberland Farms on Rt 69 where I used to buy Chocodiles. And I played the […]

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Deaths is a brief but entertaining game. The catch is that you’re expected to die. A lot. The fifty last deaths of players all around the world is sent to your game via the web – and you’ll see the corpses on screen. You can play through the whole game in fifteen or twenty minutes, […]

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Here’s a little secret about me.  I wanted Rock Band primarily for the ability to sing.  Oh sure, I wanted to play guitar like I did in Guitar Hero and GH2, and I was curious about drumming, what with it being similar to real drumming, but what I really wanted to do was sing.  I […]

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We’re not in the habit of doing game reviews here at Lungfishopolis, so I’m phrasing this in terms of game remakes, and what makes them good. Yeah, I know it’s still more a review than anything else, but let’s pretend it’s not. M’kay? I’m so glad that video game remakes haven’t gone the way of […]

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S.T.A.C.K.E.R. is a bit of an odd game: a Tetris knockoff masquerading as a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. knockoff. But it’s fairly entertaining. The blocks that drop can be enemies, weapons, armor, or other useful or harmful items. It can seem a bit complicated at first, but it’s really not a bad game once you realize what’s going […]

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In the first part of my Pixeljunk Monsters strategy guide, I covered gameplay strategies. In the second, I went into detail on the game’s towers and how best to use them. In this final segment, I’ll deal with the monsters and the inner workings of their lives. It seems like every online guide calls most […]

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