Category Archives: video games

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Deleted scenes from the Japanese version of Final Fight

MadCatz Super Street Fighter 4 Wireless PS3 FightPad Review

There are a lot of choices when it comes to playing fighting games at home. You could go with the full Arcade experience and buy your own Street Fighter cabinet, or maybe you just want the joystick portion. Maybe though you’re more like me; too cheap even for the MadCatz fighting sticks. Though most of the [...]

Bubsy 3D Tips and Tricks

EA’s Response to Activision’s Call of Duty Shenanigans?

The lawsuit did not name the rival company, but Electronic Arts Inc. is based in Northern California’s Redwood City and is thought to be who Activision is referring to in its filing. Asked whether this was the case, EA spokesman Jeff Brown said, “We don’t have the time to comment on the many lawsuits Activision [...]

Pixels

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Four Bright Buttons and Two Joysticks

Just Ballet

Straw Box Argument

Tremulous Sold to Microsoft

Following the recent turmoil over Nexuiz, Microsoft has tipped their hat and purchased Tremulous for the XBOX. As is to be expected, various Tremulous forks have already appeared in the wake of this terrible news. The first out of the gate, Liberelous, has made their stance on things clear: We would like to formally announce [...]

Tom Francis, His Gnome, and Left 4 Dead 2

In the Dark Carnival campaign of Left 4 Dead 2, you can win a garden gnome at the fairground near the start – and there’s an achievement for carrying it all the way to the end. It is, in fact, the same goddamn gnome I carried through Episode goddamn Two, for the same goddamn reason: [...]

Forest Hale interview about Nexuiz and open-source

There is a lot of controversy and confusion about the upcoming commercial Nexuiz release for consoles, the re-licensing of the Nexuiz codebase, and what this means for the Nexuiz GPL PC release. I’ve spoken with Forest Hale (no relation to Saxton Hale), the lead developer behind DarkPlaces (the engine behind Nexuiz) about these issues: Zachary [...]

Nintendo 3DS

It pays to be on Twitter. Mark “Gaming Jesus” MacDonald linked this Nintendo.jp PR (emphasis theirs) early Tuesday morning via New York Times reporter Hiroko Tabuchi: Nintendo Co., Ltd.(Minami-ward of Kyoto-city, President Satoru Iwata) will launch “N intendo 3D S”(temp) during the fiscal year ending March 2011, on which games can be enjoyed with 3D [...]

Indie Man

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