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The divine Tiger Woods

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged video games on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

No, it’s not a glitch, Tiger Woods is just that good.

Must…. play…. Tomb Raider

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged video games on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

With the latest iteration of the Tomb Raider series due in November (Tomb Raider Underwold), Eidos recently revealed their latest “real life” Lara Croft model. Alison Carroll, the ninth model to portray Lara, will be used to promote the series to infatuated, hard-up gamers who think pixelated breasts are just as good as the real [...]

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Believe

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged halo, video games on August 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Viva Pinata 2 is just around the corner and would be lying if I said I scoff in its general direction. Although it appeared child-based and on the same scale as any of the latest Pixar movie related games, it actually had depth and was a fun, easy going, and yet challenging game. Any Pinata [...]

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Redundant Redundancy?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged video games, xbox on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

XBox live has a handy feature that provides the status of all your friends online. But every once in awhile the status messages wording just don’t make sense. Playing a multiplayer player match? Hm…

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A touching gamer story

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged video games on January 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Yeah, I’m calling mom right now….

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Too many decisions….

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged video games, xbox on November 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Call of Duty 4 comes out tomorrow. Judging by the response of the public beta about a month ago, and the available gameplay videos, it looks pretty damn impressive. And to sweeten the deal, Circuit City is offering a buy CoD4 and get CoD3 for free. Yeah so what if 3 wasn’t as well received [...]

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A truly “Old School” video game

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged video games on November 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

From the Urban Retro Lifestyle website and created by an artist known as Doktor A: “When this game was first released in 1880 it was so hugely popular in taverns and inns that the bank of England was forced to mint more threepenny bits to keep up with demand. The game was created by messrs [...]

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ZOMG! Halo 3 Launch Day is Almost Here!!

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged halo, video games, xbox on September 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I wandered into Circuit City this weekend and stopped dead in my tracks when they played the Halo 3 trailer on a 50″ HD screen. The youtube version doesn’t do this thing justice.

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