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Medal of Honor: Beta Thoughts

So this guy was all up in my house wondering… “What’s on the television set?&” and being the old fashioned type of dude that I am, I replied to him: “Looks like a penguin…” then he’s all like, “You stole that from Monty Python,” and I was all like… “No… there is a penguin on the set,” because at the time, I had a pet penguin I called Pub-the-dub and he liked the heat of the television set so he stayed up there. So then we got into this fight, and yada-yada-yada I started to play this game. Oh hi! I’m Tristan Wong, one of the writers for this fine site and recently I got my hands on something… something divine… something rich, something that involves a certain director named Steven Spielberg. This game is so legendary, I can’t even remember it’s divine na—wait… it’s in the title of this article, what the hell am I thinking…

What’re You Doing This Weekend? 8/6/10

This coming Tuesday is probably the most sacred of all the annual Video Game High Holidays: Madden release day. This weekend, I have to plow through the game in all of its modes to get the review up on the site (check in Monday) and prep a piece for the podcast. It’s hard work, but someone has to do it.

Top 5 Xbox Live Arcade Games

While this may contradict the point of this list a bit, it doesn’t matter that Limbo is slightly better than Geometry Wars 2. Every one of the games mentioned are great. Buy them, enjoy them, or hate them. And tell us why we’re wrong/right in the comments below, reader.

5. Hexic HD- Hexic was everyone’s first, and favorite arcade title. Who cares that it’s not technically an arcade title (since you can’t redownload it), but since the Xbox 360 labels it so I will too. The game barely makes the list, but because it’s so much fun and free it gets my vote.

Top 5 Sci-fi Clichés

So like all good games, stories tend to stumble into these weird sci-fi cliche’s that will just… poke at you like an annoying child in dire need of them french fries. I mean, all sci-fi’s do that, and odd reasons aside… someone just isn’t commenting on them. So here is that article that will uncover some of the more apparent cliche’s that will make you rethink your outlook on the story itself.

Dirt 3 Announced, Snowy

Arguably the best racing game last year, Dirt 2, is getting another installment. I don’t find this too surprising but that doesn’t change the fact that I’m incredibly excited for Dirt 3. In the teaser trailer, they don’t reveal too much apart from the fact that we will be traversing many different environments. You can view the trailer below, it’s quite fantastic if I may say so myself.

Backbreaker Update Coming

Back in late June, NaturalMotion and 505 Games released Backbreaker. A game based solely off its Euphoria feature. A feature that made tackles much more realistic, no tackle animation was the same. I thought the system worked fine. Great even. But everything built around that tackling system was done so poorly, it mitigated the Euphoria system’s impact.

Halo 2600: The Time Traveling Chief

So it looks like Master Chief’s first stop after his recent cryo-nap is on the Atari 2600. Ed Fries, a programmer, decided to use 4K of precious memory to create Halo 2600 which he debuted at the Classic Gaming Expo. With the Halo theme clearly playing in all its signal note glory, a Halo fan cannot help but appreciate this.