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Review: Gears of War 2

Background
From day one, everyone knew that the original Gears of War was going to be a runaway success. Even before the game was released, Cliff Bleszinski, the games lead designer, had been selling the game as something that would be considered a defining title for the Xbox 360. Though Cliffy had the pedigree [...]

What I Hate About MMORPGs

In view of the WOW expansion The Wrath of the Lich King, I feel it is my duty to blow hate all over MMORPGs like a zit on a mirror, or load on a porn star’s face.
The lifestyle. If you get into an MMORPG, it becomes your life. You learn to sustain yourself on [...]

Dammit Game of the Week: Super Obama World

In honor of the recent elections, I bring you Super Obama World. I happened upon this little jewel on Kombo.com last week. Thank you Phillip Levin! This game is created by Zensoft and is one of the better Super Mario clones that I have seen. After the ads (oh how I [...]

Four Finger Discount: Left 4 Dead (PC)

I finally cracked – I preordered Left 4 Dead (scratch it off my Christmas list), but I did it for you guys. Nevermind that I got early access to the demo (which is now publicly available) and $5 off (which I can now assert that it was well worth it), I wanted to provide you [...]

Random Video: 2008 Election: The NES Game

While trying to get my necessary fix of political agenda, I came across this amusing video. The tagline of the clip could not be more appropriate: Politics make so much more sense in 8-bits!
No matter what your party or persuasion, we can all agree that when Mario is involved, everything becomes much clearer. [...]