Playing through Tomb Raider Anniversary got me to wonder, what other games would I like to see get this treatment? I sifted through the crevices of my fondest gaming memories and came up with this list of personal favorites that I think would be great candidates for remakes.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Top 10 PC Games We'd Like to See Remastered
Metal Gear Solid 4 Finally Has A Release Date
Word from Destination PlayStation, a retailers-only conference is that MGS4 finally has a summer date and a nifty hardware bundle.
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Saturday, February 23, 2008
Portal 2 Confirmed by Valve
Valve's acclaimed puzzle-action hybrid Portal will be given a sequel, according to the game's lead designer Kimberly Swift.
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
PlayStation Eye Tank War Demo Is "Next Gen" Tech
We've seen videos of Sony's Tank War Demo for the PS Eye before, and they looked really intriguing. But after having a hands-on today, I'm really excited over the simple tech demo.
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Microsoft announces user-created Xbox Live games
"Community arcade" allows users to share games with Xbox 360 owners worldwide.
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Zero Punctuation: Yahtzee Goes to GDC
This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee goes to GDC: a special presentation of Yahtzee's Game Developer's Choice Awards Videos from GDC 2008.
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What would Super Mario Bros. look like on Atari?
Ah, Atari 2600 -- where would we be without ye? But, now that you're older, we've moved on to newer, prettier models. We're sure you understand.What's that? You don't understand? You think that games like Super Mario Bros. would look just fine on you?Well, let's take a look. The video above will show us the truth.
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The Real In Game XMB from GDC08!
Tried submitting from psn@home.com but digg wouldn't accept the link so heres the original article. http://www.psnathome.com/news.php?item.704.2
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Mexico's Nintendo Wii: The Mexitendo MEXii
Finally a quality gaming system! The Mexitendo MEXii is a response to the Chintendo Vii which was created as a knockoff of the Nintendo Wii. Go to http://www.funnynintendowiivideos.com/introducing-the-mexii/ for more information on this hilarious product. If you like "Ball-in-Cup" or "The Mexican Hat Dance," then this system is for you!
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Review: God of War-Chains Of Olympus: The Best PSP Game Ever
There's no doubt that the PSP has a lot of momentum going right now and it's only going to increase with the release of God of War: Chains of Olympus. Here's a great in-depth review:
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British bank Halifax blocks WOW subscriptions
While not some attack or slur upon Blizzard Entertainment the Halifax bank, with the Bank of Scotland as a subsidiary, are blocking automatic monthly payments to the MMO. They cite that World of Warcraft is experiencing high incidences of credit card fraud....
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Nintendo DS Air
Did any of you draw this exact comparison between the two when you first saw this commercial unveiling Apple's "ultra portable?"
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Spore Includes Youtube Integration
Among the flurry of details released today about Spore, coming September 7th for the PC, one interesting tidbit might have been missed along the way. When you create your custom alien race, spaceship, or vehicles in Spore, you can upload videos of them to your Youtube account with just one click from inside Spore.
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A Gamer's Dream: Brain Controlled Headset
Gamers will soon be able to interact with the virtual world using their thoughts and emotions alone.
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PC Gamers Pissed at Microsoft: DUH!
The arrival of DirectX 10 was much anticipated. Unfortunately, it's also been heavily criticised. DirectX 10 was released as an exclusive for Microsoft's latest desktop OS, Windows Vista, leaving Windows XP (and 2000) users comfortable with their current setup chagrined.
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Blizzard Has Canceled More Games Than You Know About
"The team also revealed a list of the Blizzard games that have been canceled over the course of their 17 years, a list longer than you may think."
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The PS3 Processor Has Been Successfully Shrunk
IBM has successfully miniaturized the Cell processor that you know from Sony's PlayStation 3. Formerly built upon the 65nm scale, the new version will be based on the 45nm high-k process. What's this mean? Money, power and heat savings for Sony. And maybe a smaller or cheaper PS3 for you.
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Xbox 360 Breaks 5 Times, But Microsoft Refuses To Replace It
Guy's XBox 360 has been out of commission for three months in the last year, but Microsoft still won't replace it.
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XBOX 360 Failure rate at 16%!!
The 360 seems to be failing at an alarming rate! What's up with that, Microsoft?
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Mole: 80GB PS3 dead, 120-160GB with Dual Shock 3 incoming
Our inside source of all things video gaming has been right almost every time it comes out of the shadows to give us information, so I'm going to dispense with the back story. Wherever his or her information is coming from, it's usually solid. After I spoke to Sony about the possible discontinuation of the 80GB PS3 model, I lit the mole-signal.
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SSBB Sells A Million, Becomes the Fastest Selling Wii Game !
When it went on sale, the game sold out at loads of Tokyo game shops, and in the last two weeks, the title has shifted a million copies. It took Wii Fit seven weeks to hit a million copies sold, and it took Wii Sports eleven weeks to hit that milestone. That makes Super Smash Bros. Brawl the fastest selling Wii game.
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World of Warcraft and the Virginia Tech Suicide
Last month, a Virginia Tech student was found dead in the Target parking lot of the Christiansburg, Virginia store with a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. His name was Daniel Kim, a 21-year old senior at the university.
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The Xbox Finally Turns A Profit
In the last six years, there's been one constant when discussing Microsoft's foray into the strange and seductive world of video game console manufacturing: they had yet to turn a profit on any of it. No more, with today's announcement of Microsoft's second quarter earnings which showed a relatively impressive six-month income of $524 million.
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SPORE: Hands--on, five page exclusive preview!
Bit-tech.net has just had a chance to check out the latest full build of Will Wright's Spore and they've written up a huge five page preview on all stages of the game that explains the technology behind the game, how pollinated content works and how one of the most ambitious games ever made is turning out better than expected!
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Preview: Grand Theft Auto IV: New Details, Screens!
After six months of silence, GTA IV is still king. "GTA IV is definitely not getting delayed again," a Rockstar representative boldly states before an hour long demo of Grand Theft Auto IV, the first footage shown to the gaming press in approximately six months. The first thing Rockstar wanted to show us was...
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Jack Thompson Blames NIU Shooting On Video Games
Florida attorney Jack Thompson has appeared on Fox News this morning as a "School Shooting Expert", blaming 27-year-old sociology grad Steven Kazmierczak's rampage yesterday at Northern Illinois University on - you guessed it - video games like Counter-Strike.
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Mindblowing:Gamer to release 100's of SEGA prototypes!!!
DRX, a member of the Sonic Retro Forums, has done something unprecedented in the gaming community. After years of research and detective work, he has gotten his hands on a treasure trove of materials from the golden age of SEGA, including hundreds of prototypes, documentation, and possibly other things as well....
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Microsoft Has No Answer For Their Broken XBOX Live DRM
Normally purchased made via XBOX live work on your XBOX whether or not you are signed into XBOX live or the profile your purchased the content with. If your XBOX 360 gets the RROD (and chances are it will), any content you've purchased via XBOX live won't work unless you are logged into XBOX live and only for the profile that purchased it.
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PSP mockup is far sexier than the real thing will ever be
Good gawd y'all, we don't normally bother with fan renders and mockups, but excepting the awkward placement of the L and R triggers there's almost nothing about this PSP re-visioning that leaves us wanting. Gank that UMD, add some flash memory, and this is our be-all end-all fantasy portable gaming device -- that will likely never ever be made.
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Why it's Too Soon for the Next Xbox
Rumors are already starting to go around the Internet that Microsoft is planning for the successor to the Xbox 360. However, releasing a new Xbox system a year or even two years from now is not a good idea for Microsoft or the industry. Here's why.
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The Rarest and Most Valuable Super Nintendo Games
Interesting look at rare SNES titles. Super Mario RPG needs to come to the virtual console!
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Call of Duty 4 overtakes Halo 3 as the top game on Xbox Live
The top games for the week of January 14th have been released, and it looks like Halo 3 is now second to Call of Duty 4 as the top game on Xbox Live. It's about time.
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World of Warcraft Hits 10 Million Subscribers
Blizzard Entertainment, owners of World of Warcraft, announced this morning that the game now has more than 10 million paying subscribers around the world. Blizzard said today that those 10 million paying subscribers include 5.5 million players in Asia, 2.5 million in the US and 2 million in Europe.
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18 Undiscovered Websites Every Gamer Should Know
The gaming niche is characterized by its haves and have-nots. You’ve seen Kotaku, IGN, GameSpot, Joystiq, 1UP and the others, but what about the great, lesser-known gaming sites? Here are 18 great gaming sites you might not have seen before.
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Rockstar: GTA IV a Bigger Leap Forward than 2D to 3D.
Rockstar talks about reinventing their most popular franchise.
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Dr. Kawashima declines $22 million in Brain Age royalties
With 17 million copies of Brain Age sold since its release, Dr. Kawashima is due to earn $22 million in royalties. The shocker? He doesn't want a single penny, and instead puts his royalties towards funding other research projects. “Everyone in my family is mad at me but I tell them that if they want money, go out and earn it," he said.
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The Xbox 360 Elite laptop
That's right folks -- it's the Xbox 360 Elite laptop.
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EA Demands Fox News Channel Correction
In a letter to a producer at Fox News, Electronic Arts calls their Mass Effect story insulting and error riddled.
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Spore release date announced!
Spore, the sim-everything simulator, finally got its amino acids together today and plopped out a release date of September 7, 2008.
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Gears of War 2 Coming in November
Announcement from GDC about the release of Gears of War 2 in November.
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How to make a successful Flash game
This article examines why some games like Line Rider are so popular.
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Who wants to be a millionaire! LOTR edition
Put your LOTR knowledge to the test in the fun game.
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Impressive online Kaleidoscope Design creator
Myoats is a place where you can create simple or complex designs, shapes and patterns. The designs that you create can be: * Downloaded as an image. * Downloaded as a transparent png. * Saved to your personal account, which allows for editing and re-saving. * Made into a wallpaper
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Thursday, February 14, 2008
Spin the Black Circle
Gravity does the work in this game, all you have to do is rotate the circle, allowing the ball to fall through the maze. It seems simple, but it’s not easy!
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WoW may be coming to a mobiles device near you
Players said it would never happen, but Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce laid out a plan for what Blizzard is considering if they port of World of Warcraft to mobile devices.
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WoW Forums: Free character transfers until February 20
Having trouble trying to make your way around in your overpopulated realm? Blizzard blue-texter Bornakk visited the World of Warcraft Forums earlier to announce that devs will be implementing another round of free character transfers for today, starting at 12:00 p.m.
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Hello Kitty MMORPG!!!!!!
"engaging social aspect centered on the magical and cute online world of Hello Kitty," it will also include standard genre features such as customizable avatars, guilds, skill systems, and player economy. Although it will have a "sophisticated combat system,"
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Ten World of Warcraft Gold Leveling Secrets
World of Warcraft is perhaps one of the biggest games on the market, with over eight-million subscribers, it certainly is already the numberone MMORPG the only problem, it seems, is the amount of time it takes to get to the end of the game via leveling. So without further ado......
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World of Warcraft Class Guide
After reading this article, I finally discovered what the World of Warcraft or WOW was about. I didn't realized you could earn money playing a game online. Apparently, WOW is one of the more popular player games and their contests pay the highest to winners. I guess playing video games can payoff for some people.
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c0nflict.com Stable Release Candidate, Open Sources Code
c0nflict.com has recently open sourced, needs developers to take the game to the next level. The game has been very popular with the digg crowd before, and has a lot of potential. Some ideas the current developers have:1) CTF games 2) Added piece classes, different movement/atttack types3) AI Interface API for user created bots
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
100 Free and Legal Games - Full Version
Here are 100 of these great full games that are free to download online. They range from independent games, to games that were once commercial but are now free. Enjoy!
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Dad n' Me
Be the bully and beat up the kids. Very funny, yet violent game. Give it a go.........
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New Flash Game Tower Defense: Battle TD
A fantasy style tower defense game with very nice graphics, many different creeps and upgradable towers in three tech levels.Fun anyone?
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How cash can change online games
Online games may be set in fantastical or far future worlds but they share one feature with the real world - the relative scarcity of money.
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Flash game: LineDodger
Oh shits! Lines! Lights! Squares! THEY BRING DOOM! You must dodge them!
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Shift - agh this hurts my brain :S
Sometimes the only thing left to try is shift...
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Protector - Tower Defense meets RPG
This game takes the classic tower defense mechanic and layers RPG elements on top (leveling, specialization). Sounds like a gimmick, but the strategy is pretty deep. The art has a nice Ultima Online look going.
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Saturday, February 2, 2008
Got a Website You Love to Hate?! DESTROY IT!
This is just friggin brilliant. There are some spam, scam and other sucky websites I've been itching to destroy.
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