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For some reason, while the Bioshock setting is very well realized in the narrative and atmosphere, but I don’t feel at all immersed in it. Perhaps modern game budgets have spoiled me, but when the game purports to take place in a populated city I am all too aware of the fact that an entire...

This game is fantastic and I haven't heard about it anywhere. The 5-day steam sales gave me a taste for cheap games so browsed around to see what else I'd been missing out on. Found this strange little medieval/steam-punk game: Hammerfight ($9.99): http://store.steampowered.com/app/41100/...

Finally! A 2D Mario platformer for the Wii. Been waiting for Nintendo to produce the next game in this genre for the Wii since release! 4-player co-op to boot! The ease of friendly fire leads me to expect Battletoads style griefing of your friends though. Good times. Can't imagine shaking...

Meet the spy video went out tonight. http://kotaku.com/5257925/meet-the-spy-quite-the-ladies-man Too bad this could never actually happen. In the real game the video would start and stop 10 seconds in with the soldier shotgunning the scout because there's no friendly fire.

Because gaming references in the "outside" world become automatically awesome: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bc9_1194989233

This article's writer actually developed a reasoned explanation for why he feels that games are not yet art. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/opinion/28radosh.html?_r=2&ref=opinion&oref=slogin&oref=slogin I think he's referencing Planescape: Torment towards the end there. That was a rare...

Hmm, nobody else around Hardforum seems to be enjoying this game as much as I am? The game is different from tony hawk games in that instead of button interfaces for tricks, it uses the left stick to control the body, the right stick for board control, and the triggers for grabbing(Fight Night...

Anybody else picked this bad boy up? I'm going through this one slow as hell, trying to 5-star everything before I move on. Looked retarded in the videos and description until I played the demo and got a feel for what was really happening under the visuals. It's a long stretch of precision...

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/23520.html Geez...remember the good old days when game tech was comprehensible? I've never heard of half of this stuff >.< What the flying fanny is "Phong" lighting?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3mpbx0wFks It was referenced on kotaku. Too freaking awesome. Might wanna skip the walking portion in the middle with Sylvia to Megaman.

Has anyone had a good experience with them? With so many reports of Gamefly "never receiving" games returned to them, or retention scams like when someone tries to cancel AOL, I can't tell if Gamefly actually saves anyone money. I'm located in NJ, not that far from the new returns center in...

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3160603 The highest number I'd heard till now was 8. This guy managed 11! So with a "normal" defect rate of 5% in roughly 10,000,000 Xbox360s sold being 500,000 defective xbox360s. Each incident has a 5% chance of happening, so the probability is 1/20...

http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html They just released the new survey results. Always suprising how slowly most people upgrade to new tech, even gamers. Seems like the average system is trailing roughly 6 or 7 years behind the latest and greatest stuff. The results will be...

One of the more annoying things I've found in Xbox Live is the large amount of waiting to get started relative to the PC multiplayer experience which displays a large list of servers to choose from and drop directly into. One of the reasons this is possible is that people are more willing to...

This topic has been bandied about a bit on Hardforum, and I'm tossing this link in since it's looking at the topic closer, a bit more specific than the discussion thus far on Hardforum, so it should be good topic fuel. Sticking it in console gaming since the topic primarily occurs regarding...

http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=16134&type=wmv 4-player co-op PC game, likely to be on the Source engine seeing how Valve was credited. It's developed by Turtle Rock studios, apparently these guys helped make the Source versions of counterstrike maps. http://www.turtlerockstudios.com/...

http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=13000 First review of the product. Can't say I like that this thing is here. I'd prefer kb/m over a controller but only if it's standard equipment. I don't want to plunk down $80 + $30(wired controller) for this, and I don't want to be playing...

I think most people can agree that educational games suck. The people in this article want to explore using games as an educational tool. http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/10/17/video.games.ap/index.html They're trying to look at what makes games so addicting for kids and they want to turn...

Looking for maybe 9 customizable shortcut keys, and the standard media buttons of play/pause, stop, media next/prev, mute, and volume control. And wireless. Basically something identical to the Logitech Elite or better without having to buy a useless mouse. I have the Logitech Elite except my...

I don't know what things I should try for in Oblivion. Race is pretty clear as to what paths they excel in. Sign is pretty clean cut as well. But when picking class, I can't figure out what major skills to pick. I remember from someone saying that athletics and acrobatics should be avoided in...

Am I the only one curious as to why Spore is getting so much buzz now? Everybody's drooling and spooging their pants over that GDC video. I totally understand why, I had the exact same reaction.. but that was.months and months ago, I'm pretty sure there was even a thread about it on this...

NDA dropped a few hours ago on this game. The game will continue in beta form for a few more months though. I signed up for this beta shotgun-style. I fire out beta applications at all the MMOs that are taking them, just in case I get to check out a game personally instead of trying to see...

This allows you to practice flying planes and helicopters with your friends against moving enemies without having to fight/tk teammates to get a vehicle. Install Hamachi (Free, and less than 1mb download), it allows you to create a virtual LAN with your friends. It's quite secure, you can...

http://www.fileplanet.com/159481/150000/fileinfo/BloodRayne-Cinematic-Trailer?r=1 Is it me, or does this movie scream career killer all over?

I know this game's been out for awhile, but I'm catching up on ps2 stuff... Am I the only one disturbed by the voice acting here? Wakka, Lulu, and Auron managed to capture personality for their character gracefully, and Rikku just passable. Then Tidus and Yuna, the main characters seem like...

Can somebody explain to me what new shading effect is being used that makes all the shadows look so binary?(Black/or not shaded at all) It's come up in Doom 3 and FEAR, but not HL2 since HL2 was not as technologically advanced shading wise. Like take your hand and hold it over your...

Can anyone using this program with an mx518 tell me if this free application allows them to get application specific buttons? I want to upgrade my mouse but it seems nigh impossible to upgrade from an intellimouse 1.1. Logitech took years to come out with software that supported...

Well, I'm on Island 6 now, and I've been hoping for something to alleviate these woes but they don't seem to be coming. I've been playing a 90+% good God till Island 5. At this point I ran into a massive roadblock because you were faced with the first actual military God, the rest never really...

Fired this baby up last night. Reading some threads about it in other forums kicked up too much nostalgia, before I knew it, it was 3 in the morning. Man I love this game and @#%@ I hate those Chrysalids!!! I find myself just running soldiers about like a heartless bastard at first, shoving...