GTAIV is upon us. After several years of holding breath, Rockstar’s Magnum opus is spinning on millions of Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 consoles all over the world. It’s another successful multi-platform release. What gamer isn’t happy at this moment? Some gamers might not realize the fact that GTAIV being released [...]

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This whole Resident Evil 5 racism card thing has gotten way out of hand. With black folks, sometimes your damned if you do and your damned if don’t. The reaction to the Resident Evil 5 trailer is not surprising, but it’s reached levels of epic nonsense.

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1. Fanboyism –adjective
The collective outlook and behavior of a group of people concerning a subject (movies, games, hardware, comic book characters, etc.) which when challenged results in an antagonistic, passionate, and unreasoned response.
Rampant Fanboyism can be found on most internet message boards when such hot button subjects are discussed. You know a fanboy [...]

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How about another g-Ripe? I actually have two.
Rockstar reassured its Xbox 360 customers last week that they would be addressing gameplay issues that have come up in the version they ported over for Microsoft customers. There were some performance issues that did not come up during testing, because it apparently only affects older boxes. People [...]

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For those of you who once played Dungeons and Dragons (or still do!), we are now in mourning. Gary Gygax, who helped create D&D, which became the framework for many other fantasy based pencil, paper, and dice role-playing games, has died this morning at age 69.
I played D&D with friends for many hours in my [...]

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I am . . . by no means . . . an expert on these things. So, suffice it to say, this will be a man-on-the-street perspective on the whole deal. So, please feel free to enlighten me if you have better insight.

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I normally don’t have a problem when ‘Professional’ sites do comparisons between consoles, as most are well written, factual, and informative. However, after recently reading Gamepro’s Feature: PS3 vs. Xbox 360 ports: The cold, hard truth, I’m not quite sure what the goal was, other than incite Fanboys by providing anything but the ‘Cold, Hard [...]

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Variety’s The Cut Scene reported Tuesday that Dreamworks Animation head honcho Jeffrey Katzenberg blamed the video game industry for poor DVD sales of “Shrek the Third.” He stated, “Competition at retail from other sources such as videogames has had an impact on the overall homevideo market and on the performance of individual titles including ‘Shrek [...]

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With all the fancy technology of the current console generation, you would think that there would be more attempts to give us a greater degree of destructible environments. This is a game mechanic that seems to have been over-looked to an alarming degree.

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Ever since DMC4 was released there’s been a big deal about the 25min install of the game.  We know that with the install the load times are very close to the Xbox 360 load times.  What people don’t understand is that the benefit of installing a game to the hard drive means less noise and [...]

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Warner Bros. dropped a huge bomb on Toshiba before the CES last week. They made the move to Blu-Ray exclusivity. Warner stated that they were pro-actively trying to end the format war. Yes, it is bad for consumers, but when the market split is this deep, how bad is it? The [...]

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This morning, Major League Gaming (MLG) announced that ESPN will be the primary multimedia outlet to provide coverage for the league. This should come as welcome news for those who have been following the MLG which was established in 2002. Not only will ESPN provide coverage, but they will also be co-hosting various events. It [...]

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Yes, I’m here to admit it. I’m a COD4 freak! I can’t get enough of the game. I’m a rank 40 Colonel as of today and I finally got my P90. If I can only get that .50 sniper rifle I would be all set. I’m probably not too different [...]

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I spoke with some representatives at Toshiba about the current status of HD-DVD. I expressed my discontent with the format war and then asked them what their plans were for the format. They basically stated that they are going to continue supporting and marketing the HD-DVD product. Paramount and Universal have no [...]

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So the wishful thinking begins again. You don’t have to wonder why so many Xbox 360 gamers would love Metal Gear Solid 4 to go multiplatform. The series has had a huge success on many platforms from MSX to the Xbox. Konami has made millions of dollars on this franchise but [...]

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