Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Through March 9th, you can get a great three-fer deal on a set of wonderful innovative strategy games. Fifty dollars buys you Solium Infernum (pictured), AI War , and Gratuitous Space Battles , all pretty much one-man operations, all very different from each other, and all well worth playing. You can go here... »
Tags: been-doing, deal, each-other, games-on-sale, great-three-fer, indie-startegy, infernum, least-one, much-one-man, space, space-battles, strategy games, through-march, well-worth
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
From Microsoft: Since Microsoft unveiled Windows Phone 7 Series at MWC in February, I know you’ve heard a lot of “stay tuned to MIX for more details.” Well here’s a peek at some of those details Microsoft is addressing today. To help set the tone leading into MIX, Microsoft is sharing some important... »
Tags: developer, from-the-past, goals, markup-language, opportunity, past, phone, silverlight, since-microsoft, upon-the-best, well-performing, windows, windows phones 7 series, windows-phone
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Heavy Rain takes a while to ramp up. It takes its dear sweet time introducing three characters. It's not clear who they are, much less their relationship to each other »
Tags: business, deadly-premonition, desktop, dining, fbi, heavy-rain, jiggle-the-left, latest games, nommen-raiden, premonition, raincoat-killer, scary-moniker
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Jean-Paul LeBreton is a level designer for Bioshock and Bioshock 2 . He's just reworked Arcadia, the undersea forest from the first game, using the Doom 2 engine. Yeah, Doom 2 »
Tags: arcadia, article, dvd, easter-eggs, exercise, from-the-first, half-as-good, half-the-dvd, level-designer, older-graphics, process, shooters, sincerely-hope, undersea, used-the-doom
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
In the above greatest hits compilation, you can enjoy favorites like the oblivious sniper, the hapless dude killed by a dropped care package, the "Where did he go? »
Tags: against-someone, doofus, dude-killed, extreme computing, greatest-hits, hapless, oblivious, repeatedly, rocket-launcher, sniper-rifle, the-doofus, the-hapless, video
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
If you thought it was hard enough to wait for the release of Just Cause 2 on March 23rd, wait until you try the demo, which was just released on Xbox Live. It's not only a generous wide-open expanse of destruction, chaos, and motor scooters. I've found a very volatile gas station, a... »
Tags: action games, dude-killed, oblivious, perfect-example, repeatedly, sleeping-every, the-doofus, the-hapless, until-the-full, very-volatile
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
A real estate developer has submitted a fishy development plan for Grand Rapids, Michigan that includes a hydrogen power plant, represented by a screenshot from SimCity 4 . As you can see, the proposed hydrogen power plant will be built at the edge of the map so that it won't mess up any... »
Tags: action games, although-duane, dude-killed, grand-rapids, hydrogen-power, michigan, perfect-example, proposed, sleeping-every, strategy games, the-doofus, very-volatile
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Although The Sims 3 opened up the lives of your sims considerably by dropping them into a wide-open town, the career stuff was mostly offscreen. When your sim went to work, she just disappeared into a building. You could choose from a menu how hard your sim would work, and from time to... »
Tags: action games, allows-players, career, divulge-secrets, exciting-paths, expansion-pack, grand-rapids, hero, strategy games, the-doofus, very-volatile, victim, wide-open-town
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