Though Robbie Bach had plenty of facts and figures to throw at us during the Xbox-centric portion of Microsoft's keynote session at CES, the man wasn't all business. No, Microsoft wanted to make sure we knew they could let their hair down (except for Steve Ballmer, for whom such a task would be difficult) and [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 25, 2008
Join us and discover the true meaning of Christmas spirit! It apparently has to do with games!
Continue reading...Friday, December 12, 2008
There's trouble brewing in the world of gaming ping-pong rivalries, and GameCyte has an exclusive sneak peek at the next grudge match. On Tuesday night, when game enthusiasts came together for the Child's Play Charity Auction & Dinner, the generous members of our industry were able to raise over $200,000 for children's hospitals worldwide. For [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 25, 2008
With today's news of the Halo 3: Recon name change, many were confused. "What's an ODST?" they asked. "Oh, Orbital Drop Shock Troopers? Okay. That's stupid," they'd say after finding out. We felt their pain, and like they say, there's no cure like laughter! So after some intense brainstorming and a complete stoppage of any and all stories we were otherwise working on, Sean, Jesse, Alexander and I came up with this list of 12 things the ODST acronym should stand for.
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 19, 2008
GameCyte recently moved to a star-based scoring system for game reviews, in which we described a three-star game as the average entry. In my own words, I promised that extreme scores would be "more difficult to obtain as they veer farther to either end of the spectrum," and I meant that -- which is why [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 17, 2008
World of Goo is a strange animal: An innovative, two-dimensional, physics-based puzzler, possessed by both adorable, cute graphics, and delightfully macabre writing and themes. World of Goo isn't the kind of game that specifically needs to be on WiiWare, but the Wii is certainly a good platform for it -- while there may be no [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 26, 2008
The Suffering, a 2004 survival-horror title from Midway and Surreal Software, is a strange little game. It's fun, certainly; there's enough blood, cursing, and supernatural terrors to upset most anti-gaming folks, and its creative, difficult enemies and multiple endings make it a solid entry for the genre. What I remember most about it, however, from [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 25, 2008
Spotted over at GameTrailers. Save the Rabbids, save the world!
Continue reading...Monday, September 15, 2008
In last month's review of Homestar Ruiner, the debut episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, we confirmed a few points for Strong Bad fans: Telltale Games' new episodic PC/WiiWare series did an excellent job of capturing the Homestar Runner characters and motif. The humor was very much intact, and any H*R fan [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 11, 2008
Spotted at Joystiq, Seth McFarlane (of Family Guy and American Dad fame) has started a weekly series of animated shorts on YouTube, and this week's offering is all about gaming's favorite icon, Mario. Watch and enjoy, friends.
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Thursday, January 8, 2009
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