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Archive for October, 2010

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock

It’s be over 50 years since Guitar Hero first burst onto… what? Oh. It’s been 5 years?!? Yes. It’s only been five years but Guitar Hero is on it’s 50th editio–what? Oh there’s been how many? Oh… anyway. There’s also Rock Band as well, their 3rd one is coming soon and their Beatles game makes them have …um and… for Guitar Hero this is the… who cares? It’s more great strumming and party fun.

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Pac-Man’s 30th Anniversary Celebration: The Ghosts Come Out on Halloween!

Pac-Man is celebrating his 30th Anniversary this year. And he deserves to celebrate, as his arcade game is the most successful coin-operated game out there. But even though Pac-Man is considered the first video game character with personality, there are four other game characters who share the same anniversary! That’s right, the four ghosts who chase after Pac-Man in the maze! So in the ‘spirit’ of Halloween, this blog is in honor of the ghost monsters in the Pac-Games. Read on, and you’ll learn there’s more than just Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde.

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Sid Meier’s Pirates for Wii

Return with us to those glorious days of yesteryear, when men were men and the seas were plied by only the scurviest of watery knaves. In the service of a great power Pirate Kings and Buccaneers sailed, wooed Governor’s daughters, and played far into the night. I’m talking, of course, about the late 80′s. Back then, anyone who had a PC, Amiga, or Sega Genesis knew the love that was Sid Meier’s Pirates. A game that put you in charge of a 30 gun War Galleon and dared you to follow your own path in a digitally recreated Spanish Main.

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Game Review: Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley (Xbox LIVE)

Meet Captain Smiley. He’s a comic book super hero who’s had a bit of bad luck lately. You see, his comic book sucked so hard that it was quickly cancelled. Even worse, Smiley has a living, breathing, talking, mean-spirited star on his chest who complains and insults Smiley every step of the way. And Star has a man-crush on Smiley’s arch-rival, the narcissistic “Brad.” So what’s a super hero to do? Well, for Captain Smiley and Star, they must jump into other comic books to guest star in them to make enough money to re-launch their own series. It’s up to you to help them in this run and gun 2-D action platformer on Xbox LIVE.

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Calm Before the Storm

Sorry folks, this is just a filler blog because I can’t think of anything interesting to write a blog about. So this is the typical “What games am I looking forward to this fall” blog. A massive amount of games gets released this season for the holidays. But aside from Kingdom Hearts on the PSP, there really wasn’t anything else I was looking forward to in September. So I like to call it the ‘Calm Before the Storm’ because now that October is here, all the cool games come out soon! I imagine in September, most people were looking forward to Halo: Reach. But not me! I’m rather sick of that game myself. I couldn’t care less about Halo games, and brother Jeff plays Reach all the time. But anyway, enough of that. Here are some games I’m looking forward to playing in the next couple of months!

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Dead Rising 2

Dead Rising 2 is rated M for … zombies. Parents, if you let your kids watch zombie movies, there’s nothing here that will surprise them. Some parents may not like the focus on gore for gore’s sake and killing for killing’s sake (but these are zombies). The game does have a fascination with zombie brutality and this game will challenge your kid to kill in more and more interesting way by combining items (propane tank + nails = IED). That creativity is a double edged blade if there ever was one.

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