Monthly Archives: December 2009

Dante’s Inferno…well, there are boobs

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I will start this rant with a disclaimer: I really, REALLY love me some Dead Space.  Visceral Games (the developer for both Dead Space and Dante’s Inferno) created a really freaky, memorable and engrossing video game experience; it really is one of my favorite games this generation, easily competing with Gears of War 2 and Bioshock.

One of my favorite games of LAST generation has unequivocally got to be God of War 2.  I have not owned a single Sony console in my life, but I did borrow a PS2 from The DLB and worked my way through the entire game, a full two years after the launch of the Xbox 360.  While the God of War series isn’t really a poster child for subtlety and restraint, the execution of the action, the breathtaking boss battles, and the ever-changing-but-always-well-delivered set pieces made me feel like we had actually moved the ball forward to the endzone known as True Cinematic Gaming™.

You can imagine, then, that I had (perhaps unreasonably) high hopes for Dante’s Inferno.  A combination of God of War-style gameplay and a studio that created one of this generation’s coolest games?  Instant win, yes? Continue reading →

Review: BSG -”Sometimes a Great Notion” [SPOILERS]

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So I got the final episodes of BSG DVDs awhile back and I finally got through seeing them. And as I watched them, I remembered that I hadn’t written about the first episode from the final ten. (Not to mention I promised I would post my thoughts about it much earlier…) As it often does, however, “life stuff” came up and I put it off. Here then is the final posting.
And so with that I say farewell to Battlestar.

Quick Picks: Dual Sticks – Iphone/IpodTouch

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Ever since Geometry Wars on the Xbox 360 (or as my friend Tony calls it: Math Attack!), the dual stick shooter has been a mainstay in casual gaming.  The genre lends itself particularly well to the Iphone as the lack of hardware buttons is easily forgiven by games where you only need to drag your fat thumbs along the screen.  Today I’m looking at 3 dual stick shooters that I’ve recently discovered and enjoyed.

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The Palm Pre – Six Months Out

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So here we are, over 6 months from the launch of the Palm Pre.  It’s been an exciting time.  We’ve seen a number of incremental firmware updates squashing bugs and improving features. We’ve seen the introduction of paid apps, and with it, the expansion of the app catalog to over 600 apps, with about a dozen new apps a day.  We’ve also seen the launch of the Pixi, a stripped down Pre designed to appeal to first time smartphone buyers in a svelte candybar format.

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Try The Bayonetta Demo…I think…

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Whoa.

So, not really for the kiddies…keep THAT in mind when you think about downloading/playing it.

There is a basic tutorial mode in the beginning that demonstrates what a badass bitch you are in the game.  After that, they dump you into the most intensely confusing and difficult 3 minutes of gameplay you’ll ever play.  I played it twice and nearly turned the demo off because I was SURE this was not a game for me.

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