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Review: Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People - 8-Bit is Enough (PC)

Monday, December 15, 2008

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Review: Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People - 8-Bit is Enough (PC)

And the final game of Strong Bad's episodic adventure series comes... in the night.

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Do Nothing, Win Games! Thanks, Spike TV!

Saturday, December 13, 2008

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Do Nothing, Win Games! Thanks, Spike TV!

Spike TV and Mountain Dew are running a contest slash lottery, which gives you the chance to win a free digital copy of a critically acclaimed indie game for XBLA, PSN, WiiWare, or even Steam. All you have to do is submit your name, e-mail address and game preference, then perhaps opt out of the [...]

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Hands-On Preview: Evasive Space (WiiWare)

Monday, December 8, 2008

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Hands-On Preview: Evasive Space (WiiWare)

GameCyte gets a hands-on look at the new WiiWare title from YUKE'S and High Voltage Software, Evasive Space -- a game about evading things. In space!

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Win Wii Points in Official Tetris Party Tournament

Thursday, December 4, 2008

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Though we found that more than a few of Tetris Party's many, many game modes were rather disappointing when we gave it our full review in October, we still hold today that it offers excellent value for money if you have some same-couch friends to play it with. But if you, our lonely reader, scorned our [...]

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Review: Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People - Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective (PC)

Monday, November 17, 2008

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Review: Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People - Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective (PC)

We've been reviewing Telltale Games' latest episodic game series since the first entry, and Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People has certainly been an interesting experience to follow. As we've mentioned before, episodic games enjoy both a unique privilege and challenge: Once the initial episode has succeeded, demonstrating that its gameplay and characters are [...]

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Hudson Gamers’ Day: Snowboard Riot (WiiWare)

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

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Hudson Gamers’ Day: Snowboard Riot (WiiWare)

Among Hudson Entertainment's titles being presented at last week's Gamers' Day, the company's WiiWare contingent was out in force, showing off toilet repair crews and exploding aliens who lived in pinball machines. Hudson seems to have a habit of juxtaposing logically disparate themes in their games, and the pattern holds true for their forthcoming wintery [...]

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Review: Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People - Baddest of the Bands (PC)

Monday, October 27, 2008

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Review: Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People - Baddest of the Bands (PC)

With another episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People now released to the world, the series has crossed the halfway mark. The new entry, Baddest of the Bands, is the third of five planned episodic games for the initial run of Telltale Games' take on the Homestar Runner universe. As we mentioned during [...]

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Review: Tetris Party (WiiWare)

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

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Review: Tetris Party (WiiWare)

Ask yourself the following question: How many times, over the course of your life, have you bought a version of Tetris? Two? Five? A dozen? Tetris is about as ubiquitous a game as has ever existed. It singlehandedly defines an entire genre -- when people are trying to describe an action-puzzler, they say, "You know, [...]

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Review: World of Goo (WiiWare)

Friday, October 17, 2008

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Review: World of Goo (WiiWare)

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 [...]

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Hands-on Preview: Boingz

Monday, October 6, 2008

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Hands-on Preview: <em>Boingz</em>

Adorable alien rubber bands star in a physics-based puzzle platformer. What's not to love? Well, we could name a few things... but overall, Boingz looks like a solid WiiWare title. Hit the jump for our impressions.

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