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Devils in the details

I see the Digital Foundry section of Eurogamer has posted another of their bellows-like game comparisons. And what else could it be this week but Modern Warfare 2, the game that ate 2009.
If you’d like the exhaustive details, by all means click through. There’s lots of videos and pics, spread over 3 pages for their [...]


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Monday Links: squabbling edition

As the summer now begins to wane, and the creeping fingers of fall grasp the countryside, the release schedule begins to get a little busier. The release of Madden is always the unnoficial start of Videogame Season, and shows like this week’s Tokyo Game Show always produce lots of nice previews and info.
Eurogamer’s “Digital Foundry” [...]


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The Fanboy Fallout Will Be Epic

To say that Grand Theft Auto IV is the most anticipated game of the year for many people would be a bit of an understatement. My own personal hype levels are in overdrive at this point and it’d be about impossible for me to be rational about the game right now. Microsoft and Sony [...]


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Forum Sightings

I think he stores the extra batteries in his neck.


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Forum Sightings

Quick question for the geeks: just how on earth did they shoot out the shield generator (the testicular-looking thing on top) if it was, you know, generating shields? Doesn’t sound like very good engineering design to me. Probably made by the French.

Because those aren’t shield generators; they’re long range scanners of some sort… [...]


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When Fanboys Attack: Super Mario Reviewer E-Lynched By Foaming Nintendrones

The biggest release this week Super Mario Galaxy. This is a game that is so hotly anticipated that the mere sight of it causes small Japanese schoolgirls to instantly combust. There is a vast, bloodthirsty horde of barbarians on NeoGAF that will kill everyone standing between themselves and their preorder. Game magazine editors genuflect in [...]


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I’m Happy About This NPD Thing

No, not the french New Democrats. The market research firm. They announced via the LevelUp blog on Monday that NPD Group would no longer be providing hardware sales figures to the general public.
If you haven’t heard of the NPD figures as they relate to videogames, this means that you are relatively well-adjusted. If you obsess [...]


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