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Josh

Four New Characters Released for Marvel vs Capcom 3 at NYCC!

At NYCC, to excite the crowd even more about the long-awaited Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Capcom employees allowed us to play the game and also announced four new characters. While there, I was allowed to play the game for a while. The game runs extremely smoothly and is also a ton of fun. Frankly, I

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Podcasts
James Huneycutt

The Water Cooler – Ep. 1 – Introductions are in order

Hosted by James Huneycutt and with Bob Beshere, Justin Biegger, Rett Lucas, and Shauna Smith, The Water Cooler is a bi-monthly podcast.  The Water Cooler is a roundtable breakdown of the week’s events, a primer in nerd news, a dose of geek rant and some generally fascinating conversation between a few generally fascinating people! Check it

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Gaming
James Trauben

Analysis – The Unlikely Hero

Once again I don my Pontification Hat (it’s comfy!). Consider this, gentle reader: most writers do not pluck their inspiration fully-formed from the ether.  Sometimes it’s more of a mugging, the writer rifling through the pockets of an influential story for interesting storytelling devices. We call the worst of these secondhand storytelling conceits cliches, but

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Cosplay
Josh

New York Comic Con Cosplay

New York Comic-Con: a place where people can break out of their shells and show off versions of their favorite characters. As with all comic-cons, there were hundreds of people participating in the cosplay. Although most of the costumes were a bit questionable, there were those that stood out and kept our attention. Go past the break

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Events
Rachel

Getting Into the Gaming Industry: Introduction

A few weeks ago, I went to a little convention called Dragon*Con in Atlanta. I won’t go into details about the convention, as that information is covered everywhere, but I would like to talk to you about a panel I attended entitled “Getting Into the Gaming Business.” It was held by — most notably —

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Gaming
Raul Valle

[Review] Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley (XBLA)

Twisted Pixel is one of those video game development teams for which I have a soft spot in my heart. They’re a company that has absolutely no problem being silly and absurd in their games, quite evident in their previous game, ‘Splosion Man, and taken further in a hilarious press release regarding the fixing of

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Gaming
Chris Toruno

Reach…for Kinect?

The XBOX 360 Kinect launches in a little under a month and will have 15 games available at its launch date. But what about the biggest game of the year, Halo: Reach?  Even though Reach isn’t compatible with the Kinect, it isn’t stopping zaxy.com to imagine the possibilities of gunning down other Spartans, assassinating them,

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Blog
Justin Dean

How to get +4 to skill checks.

I believe that if one can look at him or herself without judgment and with sufficient knowledge about oneself and situation in life, that he or she can make wise, educated, and helpful choices for him or herself. If you play video games or roleplaying games regularly then you have already practiced these concepts regularly.

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Podcasts
Andrew Plein

Pixelated Podcast Ep.055 Laugh Tracks

This week on the Podcast we go to a Galaxy Far Far Away in 3D with a talk about the re release of the Star Wars films in 3D!!! Briefly discuss Caprica. Go OnLive with a short review of the service and talk about the latest OnLive news. Have a preliminary review of Twisted Pixels

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