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Continuing our look at the October 2011 Game Releases schedule, we head to the second week of October. More Sequels, racing, air combat, zombies and magic. If only they could combine these all into one…. October 10th, 2011 Forza Motorsport 4 Forza Motorsport is the racing game series from Microsoft Game
Continuing our look at the Fall 2011 game release schedule, we move onto the first week of October. We have a “spiritual” sequel, as well as a new IP from a big name company amongst others. Check them out below. October 4th, 2011 Dark Souls Dark Souls is billed as
NBA 2K12 Game Soundtrack The NBA 2K series has always produced soundtrack that were quite popular. The main genre of these game soundtracks is hip-hop. They use a blend of mainstream and underground artists and the tracks are comprised of of equal parts remixed tracks, previously released tracks and tracks
Every year the question after E3 is who won? Sometimes its clear-cut, other times things are simply divided by fanboy (and/or girl) lines. “Insert Console Company” kick “Insert other Console Company’s ass this year. Oh, and Nintendo is for kids! “Console Company” is for “insert favorite ethnic or homophobic slur”.
Wii U Console Announced We’ll get to the software and such later. What everyone wants to talk about and possibly at least part of what they were expecting came to pass during Nintendo’s morning press conference. Nintendo announced their new controller… I mean new system. The Wii U. I joke
Microsoft E3 2011 I guess MS doesn’t hold press conferences, they hold “Global Media Briefings” 😛 Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Demo Opens straight with Modern Warfare 3 footage, which is actually pretty cool. Underwater incursion into a sub-marine. After surfacing it looks like we are in the U.S.,
I want to start off first by discussing some system specific topics. I cover PS3 and PC almost exclusively. I admit some ill-will towards Microsoft as a company. I think their customer support and most obviously with the Xbox 360, their quality control is awful. I also find their flagship
Ubisoft Games – E3 2011 Ubi celebrating their 25th anniversary at this E3, founding in 1986. Feed Trouble Looks like there was some feed trouble on both IGN and Gamespot. Gamespot now states that due to a limited Internet connection only archives will be available. Nice! I ended switching over
E3 2011 – EA Origin For those that don’t know or don’t remember. Origin Systems was the creator of the Wing Commander, Crusader and Ultima brands. EA bought them out in the late 90s and shut the doors in about 2005. It appears that they are going to put to
October is going to be a significant month in gaming for this 2010 calendar year. Most of the biggest titles are going to be released in this month, probably in anticipation of big sales and possible shortages ahead of prime-time holiday purchasing through Thanksgiving and on up towards Christmas. While
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GuyBrush Starkiller – Force Unleashed II This is perhaps the greatest achievement of LucastArts in the last decade of gaming, besides resurrecting Monkey Island. They have taken their most popular and profitable game IP, Star Wars of course and married it with their most popular adventure gaming series from days
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Okay, I’m gonna call the round-ups of short reviews Abbreviated Review… very exciting and original I know. Let this begin the summer of gaming for me. This break is an unusually long 4 week stint, and a precursor to final final quarter at the Art Institute… and then back into