Monthly Archives: November 2010

Review: Assassin’s Creed – Brotherhood

Brotherhood isn’t some ‘multiplayer only’ experiment: the kind of game where it wants to rely on only one online trick to convince customers to part with their hard-earned money because it uses ‘multiplayer’ like a magic word. When Ubisoft began … Continue reading

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Review: Call of Duty – Black Ops

If there’s one thing Call of Duty: Black Ops keeps trying to tell me, I think it’s this: War is awesome. Real war, of course, is far from that, but Treyarch’s latest work isn’t interested in painting any solemn pictures … Continue reading

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Review: Dead Rising 2

By Brittany Vincent Contributing Writer The boys are back in town. By boys, I mean ravenous, flesh-eating zombies. And by town, I mean Fortune City. Luckily Chuck Greene, motocross superstar, is on the case. In Dead Rising 2, the sequel … Continue reading

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I watched Skyline

Skyline is easily the worst movie that I’ve seen this year, and one of the worst that I’ve ever seen. If you’ve watched the trailers, that’s literally everything that you have to look forward to. Skyline is about an alien … Continue reading

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Capcom wants you to make a mecha for Mega Man

Or rather, a Bonne Mecha! The Bonnes are a family in the Mega Man Legend RPG series who specialize in building special robots that perform a variety of different tasks. This time, Capcom’s devs are reaching out again to their … Continue reading

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Ni no Kuni – an RPG so potentially awesome it comes with its own spellbook

This is a game that I’ve been watching for awhile now ever since I heard about it about two years ago. Level 5 (Rogue Galaxy, Dragon Quest VIII) and famed animation house, Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Nausicaa of … Continue reading

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Review: Star Wars – The Force Unleashed II

The Force Unleashed from Lucasarts is the kind of fantasy wish-fulfillment that franchise fans hope to see from their favorite worlds. It’s also not the first time that Lucasarts had dabbled in giving players a chance to step into the … Continue reading

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Bond Back in 2012?

The famous words “James Bond Will Return” at the end of his films is usually a promise kept. That is, until MGM had run into money troubles that ultimately led to the storied studio filing for bankruptcy. It didn’t bode … Continue reading

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Candid Kinect

Kinect came out yesterday amidst much hoopla and joy for those that managed to snag one. If you haven’t heard of what it is, it’s the motion sensing accessory for the Xbox 360 that essentially follows your body to do … Continue reading

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Review: Vanquish (Xbox 360)

Arcades back then were filled to the brim with row upon row of cutting edge excitement, the kind that ate quarters and tokens as if there was no tomorrow. When new and fancier consoles arrived on the scene from Japan, … Continue reading

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