Monthly Archives: October 2006

Lara anniversary game in the works

Eidos announced “Tomb Raider: Anniversary” for the PS2, PSP and PC, a new adventure that’s being inspired by the very first game that started the sweaty, lustful fanboy ball rolling. Here’s an excerpt from the Eidos release: Inspired by the … Continue reading

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What the … ?

I’m a little late to the party commenting on this, but I finally saw the PS3 baby commercial while watching the Saints-Ravens game on TV. You’ve got a toy baby sitting in a windowless, doorless white room across from a … Continue reading

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Piercing the Wii’s aura — fanboys beware

At E3, many folks (including myself) played Nintendo’s Wii for a scant playing session and came away singing its praises, or at least voicing how intrigued we were. Then came the whole “changing the way everyone plays” bandwagon, rolling into … Continue reading

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My Xbox 360 out with sore hamstring

My Xbox 360 has failed me. I try every once in a while to use this space to offer up my first impressions of new releases, because sometimes waiting to file the review isn’t quite enough. Plus, since I buy … Continue reading

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Electronic Arts announces PS3 titles

Well, they did. Actually 30 of them, but the e-mail I got featured 11. And here they are: *Army of Two Burnout 5 Battlefield: Bad Company Def Jam: Icon Fight Night Round 3 *Madden ’07 *Medal of Honor Airborne NBA … Continue reading

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Game journos honored

Check out this list put together of the top 50 journalists. If you keep a relatively watchful eye on the scene, there shouldn’t be any real surprises on it: Shoe, Brian Crescente of Kotaku (a former cops reporter) and Dennis … Continue reading

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‘Bully’ for you, ‘Bully’ for me

First off, apologies for the silence yesterday. There are a LOT of new releases this week — “Splinter Cell: Double Agent,” and “Battlefield 2142″ among them, but the one the mainstream folks are going to be checking out is the … Continue reading

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Clover Studios … GONE

So, I take a break from playing “God Hand” to find out that Capcom is planning to dissolve Clover Studios (which also made “Okami”) by March of 2007. Wow. You know, we hear gamers of all kinds whine about how … Continue reading

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Catching Tiger

“Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2007″ was offically released yesterday, and EA celebrated in front of Graumann’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood with the arrival of Tiger Woods himself to help promote the game. I’d never really seen the golf Jedi in … Continue reading

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Google grabs YouTube for $1.65 billion

You could just FEEL this coming. Reuters reports that Google is going to acquire YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock. The purchase is the first one that puts a more than $1 billion dollar value on a user participation Web … Continue reading

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