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Yeah, so I put up a couple of groups for in depth game reviews & impressions of things you've been playing a bit ove, want to talk about, but don't feel you've experienced enough to do a full reveiw of. Good for demos you've played as well. I've seen a lot of posts on the main page about what you've been playing & thought this would be a good way to let the news posts get better exposure on the main page while giving a better home for the reviews and impressions where they can hang lo

I don't really have anything compelling to say about this as that it's just boxart and trying to anylize a game based on it's boxart is just silly to me. The reason I DID post it is because the faded versions of Samus in the picture remind me of those stylish class photos I could get when I was a ki

Yeah, I guess I haven't told you people about my problem. I am afflicted with the ironclad nerves of a chihuahua. The smallest thing makes me jump like a girl and screech twice as loud. I absolutely abhor 90% of all horror movies. Please, let me be clear, this has nothing to do with fear, I am, after all an utter pussy. Not yet a colossal pussy. I'm not "scared" of the content of horror movies/games. My problem is my nerves. Since, in the last decade or so, horror movies have transitioned fro

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/levelup/archive/2007/06/26/level-up-exclusive-on-nintendo-wiiware.aspx

Looks like Nintendo is announcing what we all knew was coming. On Wednesday, Nintendo announces WiiWare a service separate from Virtual Console that will be accessed via the Wii Shop channel. The article claims that, much like XBLA & the PSN before it, Nintendo will b

I saw this over at Joystiq.

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/06/25/third-party-hdmi-cable-coming-for-non-elite-xbox-360/

Obviously, this is concept art, but a company by the name of XCM is claiming that in four weeks time, they

One of the things I dig the most about playing with friends is coming up with our own slang-terms for things in games. I'm not sure this has exactly caught on in the community, but a good one I heard a while ago was that a listener was playing against Scot in Gears of War. Every time Scot was killed, this person (sorry, I don't remember who) had the famous Price is Right losing sound bound to a device on his controller that would hold a few soundbytes.

Here's a list of a few I have wit

Just found this at Kotaku...

http://kotaku.com/gaming/peripherals-to-rock-with/rock-bands-drumkit-and-microphone-271777.php

I'll have to reserve some judgement until I've seen how it

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19354827/#storyContinued

To be filed, yet again, under "It's not us as parents, it's you damned videogames!", a report prepared by "a leading council of the nations largest doctors' group" has been submitted to the American Medical Association's annual policy meeting starting Saturday in Chicago. This report would ask that videogame addiction be included in a widely

One can only assume that during the Truth or Dare game at the big Sleepover party at Nintendo's house, Bioware has been subjected to the equivallent of spending five minutes alone in the closet with Sega.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/wtf%3F/bioware-and-sega-team-for-sonic-rpg-270998.php

Kotaku was sent this press release announcing that Bioware would be working on a Sonic the Hedgehog based

In a move that smacks of bullshit, Sony Computer Entertainment president Kaz Hirai claimed to bring this astronomical number of games to the PS3 by the end of the company's financial year in March 2008.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6172868.html?action=convert&om_clk=latestnews&tag=latestnews;title;2

Kaz promises a whopping 200 retail games, and

So in a move that should surprise no one, Nintendo made it clear that they will not allow the AO rated Manhunt 2 to be released on the Nintendo Wii.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/original/nintendo-nixes-ao-manhunt-270741.php

In an email sent to Kotaku, it was explained:

"Games made for Nintendo systems enjoy a broad variety of styles, genres an

http://www.destructoid.com/microsoft-combats-red-rings-heatsinks-to-the-rescue-32993.phtml

Apparently new Xbox360's are getting heatsink upgrades in an effort to combat the ever-sodding Red Rings O' Death. And, if this YouTube vid posted on the 12 is to be believed,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSTy9tog1RU

refu

http://www.rumorreporter.com/?p=251

Not much to go on but some concept art and a somewhat shady message.

"...the fifth Monkey Island is coming. I know some of the guys who worked on the music compositions for the original

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/06/11/id-software-debuts-new-engine-at-apple-conference/

Debuted, oddly enough, during Steve Job's WWDC keynote. You know, that great bastion of gaming technology, apple. Also, the first ID engine to not be named after the game that it's showcasing. This may, or may not be the game that they're act

http://www.destructoid.com/destructoid-interview-the-voice-of-the-darkness-mike-patton-32615.phtml

Cute little interview, especially if you're a longtime fan of the former Faith No More singer and Man of a Thousand Projects as I am. Apparently he's also doing "zombie sounds" for Left 4 Dead. Seems like a pretty good fit to me.

Yesterday had to be one of my worst gaming days ever. Oblivion has been one of my most favorite games in probably the last decade or so. To date, I've logged somewere in the range of 150 hours of gameplay. Lately, I've been working through the Shivering Isles expansion. I've really been enjoying it. Some of the quests are sub-par, but the ones that shine really make up for it. So, I'm about three-fourths of the way through the main campaign on a mission to find some twisted magi/scientist wom

Than Bethesda releases one of the two things I saw two weeks ago. You can find a trailer for Fallout 3 here.

http://fallout.bethsoft.com/

Things that have been addressed for the hardcores...

50's-era music WILL be there. Most of it