Category: Gaming

Spare Change: Xbox Live Deal of the Week Dead Rising 2

The dead have risen again! This time they are on sale with Dead Rising 2 DLC for Xbox Live Gold Members.  Quick get your Spare Change before rigor mortis sets in. Its time you extended the life of the re-animated with these great DLC add-ons for Dead Rising 2.

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Cause of PSN outage remains disputed after six days

Six days into the ongoing outages on the Playstation Network, the exact cause of the outage remains in dispute, and no one knows precisely when PSN will get back online. Sony spokesperson Satoshi Fukuoka has blamed an “external intrusion” into its system and announced that a “thorough investigation” was ongoing. While Sony pins the blame

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A Claptrap Style Proposal

Like most gamers, I start a relationship carefully, not showing my full geeky-nees until a few months in.  That wasn’t the case for Borderland and Gearbox fan Ben.  He had written to Gearbox, explaining that he and his girlfriend Tora loved playing through Borderlands.  Ben wondered if Gearbox could help him pop the question. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fii-KPEmcMw[/youtube] Of course you can’t have an epic proposal video

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Kingdom Con Review: A Gamers Gathering

Recently the other guys of Comic issues and i have had the pleasure of going to one of the few remaining gaming conventions here in San Diego, Kingdom Con.  This convention is a three day event held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel full of classic roleplaying and strategy games galore.  This convention was an important

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In Defense of Quicktime Events

Apologies for my recent silences, ladies and gentlemen. But have no fear, because it’s Pontification Hat time again! This time, rather than attacking a tired-out trope, the topic is instead the defense of a device that’s become an industry standard, even in the face of severe criticism. I speak, of course, of the dreaded quick-time

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Something I learned from Day[9]

If you are a hardcore or semi-hardcore (Where is the line?) player of Starcraft then you might know the name of Day[9]. Day[9] was introduced to me as a dynamic commentator of StarCraft mixing equal parts comedy and strategic insight. If there was a nerd that I wanted to be my CO it might be

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Crysis 2 – A Post-Modern Deconstructionist Shooter [Editorial]

The first-person shooter often exemplifies the term ‘formulaic.’ How often have you waded through masses of faceless Nazi’s, and how many times have you saved the world/universe from the machinations of a ruthless enemy hellbent of the enslavement of humanity? How many times can we be funneled down the same corridor with the same shotgun shooting

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Chance Meeting in a Tavern (Part I)

Now, we fast-forward sixteen years in the future.  Thom has grown up and has reached the age of manhood in Goliath tradition.  Now he must go on a spiritual quest to appease the Goliath ancients and his tribe father, Thomtham.  However, a few hundred miles south of Thom’s tribe, seven adventure-seekers gather in a tavern,

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