Welcome to the Scribblenauts Smackdown! I’m Vince Clortho, and I’m here today in the Lungfishopolis Coliseum with color commentator Gordon Freeman. Say hi, Gordon. Okay! So Gordon needs to warm up. In the meantime, let me explain today’s event. We have sixteen competitors, sixteen of the toughest badasses we could find in Scribblenauts. They’ll be […]

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Keepers is a weekly segment in which I discuss games I’ve played that I’ve seen fit to keep after playing. I generally sell a game that I’ve finished, so the only reason I keep one is because I plan to replay the game some day. Classifying a game as a “keeper” is generally a badge […]

Read the rest of Keepers: Brain Age 2

Aside from the sometimes-maddening movement controls, I’ve been enjoying Scribblenauts quite a bit, and I haven’t even finished World 3 yet. But as I was finishing up the second world, I began to realize that despite the game’s unlimited possiblities, I was getting a bit bored. I found myself re-using all the same objects from […]

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Although the version of Okami I played was a Wii remake of the Playstation 2 game, I loved it. It was not only the best-looking Wii game I’ve ever seen, it was potentially the best-looking videogame I’ve ever seen. This is because the designers didn’t shoot for photorealism, instead opting for a beautiful hand drawn […]

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I just finished reading the Joystiq hand-on preview of Scribblenauts. This game sounds downright amazing. The premise is that you face different levels with different problems to solve – get this man a drink, get past this shark, escape from a zombie apololypse. You know, read-world problems. But in order to do this, you write […]

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Keepers is a weekly segment in which I discuss games I’ve played that I’ve seen fit to keep after playing. I generally sell a game that I’ve finished, so the only reason I keep one is because I plan to replay the game some day. Classifying a game as a “keeper” is generally a badge […]

Read the rest of Keepers: Mario Kart

How interesting is it that “Tower Defense” has become a game genre? Currently, I’m playing three separate games in that genre. That’s a lotta tower defensing. Firstly, Popcap’s Plants versus Zombies. When I initially heard about the game, I wrote it off. I was never a huge fan of Peggle or Diner Dash, and despite […]

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As a huge fan of the original Puzzle Quest and it’s successor, Galactrix, I was intrigued to see a game from PQ‘s lead designer, Steve Fawkner show up on May’s review calendar. After initially thinking that the game would be too complicated for my reviewing tastes (I tend to like games that don’t require a […]

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A couple things I felt obligated to post about on this Monday afternoon. Firstly, in London today, at “Bethesda Gamer Day”, Bethesda announced a new Fallout game. This isn’t downloadable content for Fallout 3, or even a sequel. This is a different game. Part of me is hoping madly for a non-FPS title, but nothing […]

Read the rest of Monday News: A New Fallout, and a the DSi

The DSi launches on Sunday and I am giddy with excitement. When the DSi was first announced, I was pretty ho-hum about it.  At the same time, I knew I would buy one as the need to purchase new Nintendo hardware is coded into my very genetic code.  I was ho-hum about the original DS, […]

Read the rest of A Tale of Two Platforms: Hopes for the DSi