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BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: KadokawaMSRP: $29.98RATED: Various The Kadokawa name umbrellas over a vast media empire in Japan, including comics, movies, and books. As with any large publishing house, there's bound to be quite a bit of chaff around the… Continue reading
[Note: Close to Home is set for a limited theatrical release starting today, February 16. IFC Films sent us a screener of this and a couple of their other upcoming releases, reviews for which you'll see appearing in the coming week or so. IFC's website has… Continue reading
IGN is reporting that Japanese Xbox 360 owners can now access free downloads for the RPG Blue Dragon. The interesting thing is that instead of being downloads of the "new item" or "new quest" variety, these offer two new difficulty levels for the campaign, as… Continue reading
There's a single image that inspires me to submit to further Star Wars punishment. It's not even an image from in-game. It's a piece of concept art, which is probably even more misleading than the doctored screenshots often used to advertise games. It's this… Continue reading
It was with a heavy heart that we learned earlier this year that Capcom was shutting the doors on Clover Studios, the development house responsible for great games such as Okami and Viewtiful Joe, as well as oddities like God Hand. We sometimes forget,… Continue reading
Piggybacking on yesterday's story about Bioware's upcoming RPG Dragon Age comes this little tidbit of news about their other current project, Mass Effect. The Xbox 360 exclusive title is rumored to feature a main quest that will last somewhere between 20 and… Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Warner Bros.MSRP: $19.98RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 111 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Feature Commentary w/ Neil Jordan• Deleted scenes• Trailer The Pitch "It's Stand by Me meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as filtered through… Continue reading
There are a couple schools of thought when it comes to the purpose and potential of videogames. Some developers see the format as an abstract sort of canvas, an opportunity for interactivty, in which the player's imagination is lord. The other faction (we'll… Continue reading
Back in the day when print media ruled the industry (a decade ago, or so), there was a games publisher that gave itself the humble name of GOD, which they claim stood for Gathering of Developers, but we know better. Well, Nietzsche won out over GOD and the… Continue reading
Happy Wii owners haven't exactly been swept away by a deluge of quality titles for Nintendo's eccentric console. It's to be expected, this close to a launch, but what every Nintendo fanboy wants to know is: When do we get Mario? The plumber that built the… Continue reading
In the latest issue of EGM, Sony executive Jack Tretton tried to dispel the rumors that the PS3 wasn't in as high demand as its competitors by offering $1,200 for any of the units that had been on store shelves longer than five minutes. On January 24, I wrote… Continue reading
In true rock ‘n roll fashion, the breakup of Guitar Hero developer Red Octane with their franchise and publisher Activision is creating some fallout. Three former Red Octane employees, who have gone on to found their own development house, are being… Continue reading
