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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I’ve been looking forward to Fallout 3. A lot. I’d be happy skipping Spore, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and the new Ghostbusters game, so long as I get to play Fallout 3. At PAX, Bethesda released the Fallout 3 survival guide in pdf format. What can I say? It’s made of win. You can […]

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So, Mercenaries 2 dropped on Sunday, and with it, seamless drop in, drop out cooperative play.  Basically, by default, when you’re playing, any one on your Friends List can just pop on into your game and help you blow stuff up.  On paper, it sounds great but in reality, it’s kind of unsettling. I was […]

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Gods be praised! Not only will the Front be represented in Rock Band, but it’s one of his absolutely bestest songs ever, the Achewood inspired track “Livin’ on the Corner of Dude and Catastrophe”. I absolutely can not wait to try my hand at dropping his inconceivably thick rhymes. It’s supposed to drop on Tuesday, […]

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Ok, so not all game designers. Hell, I’m sure that most of them are fine, upstanding, young men and women, but lately, I’ve been playing some games where the design choices are so infuriating, that I feel the need to round up the various designers and smack them. At the very least I’ll voice my […]

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