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Entries from June 2008

Contest: The Policital Machine 2008 Give-Away

June 20th, 2008 · No Comments

If anyone wants to win a copy of Stardock’s next upcoming Political Machine game, you’ll want to checkout gamestooge.com’s contest post. The contest ends June 30, 11:59pm EST so you wanna get over there now and enter to win. “The rules of the game are simple: post your own political slogan as a comment by […]

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Tags: Contest · Simulations

Spore Generates Buzz: 500,000+ User Creatures

June 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Although I would have thought different, apparently people are clamoring over the “hype generator” tool called Spore Creature Creator. “The best part is that these creatures will be part of the main game, Spore, as user content will populate a lot of the galaxy in each player’s game,” says Falcon at GameStooge. Will Wright and […]

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Tags: Industry News · Simulations

Robbie Bach says: There Will Be Multiple Victors

June 20th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s amazing to think we’re in our third year of “next generation” console bliss. Three years have passed since the first Xbox 360 shipped, for good or bad, and it’s time to start thinking about the future. Or is it? Bobbie Bach, Microsoft Entertainment and Devices president, seems to believe this generation of consoles will […]

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Tags: Editorial · Industry News

ESRB Plugs The Leaks

June 20th, 2008 · No Comments

One of the great places to find news on upcoming games is the ESRB‘s website. They typically rate their games and post the ratings on their site to be helpful to concerned citizens looking to purchase upcoming titles. Of course, the ESRB gets their titles prior to the game release so posting the rating on […]

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Tags: Industry News

Gaming Flashback: DOOM

June 20th, 2008 · No Comments

DOOM is a PC game titlat that wasn’t initially released in stores. It was uploaded to an FTP server in the University of Wisconsin-Madison and on the Software Creations BBS on the 10th of December; released as a shareware game, people were encouraged to download and spread the game around to all their friends. In […]

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Tags: Flashback · FPS · Podcast · Retro

Summoner Geeks

June 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment

One of the best “viral videos” of it’s time, Summoner Geeks shows people what D&D players are really like in the wild. The video plays upon many of the crazy scenarios in a typical Dungeons and Dragons session including the guy with no clue, the guy who changes his character sheet when it feels like […]

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Tags: RPG · Video

Gaming Flashback: Double Dragon II [NES]

June 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Double Dragon II: The Revenge, this is a sequel title to a game which arrived earlier on the NES as an arcade port, something pretty standard back in the day of arcades, and like it’s original port, has variations from the arcade. The trick is, the variations are much less than that of the original […]

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Tags: Fighting · Flashback · Podcast · Retro · Side Scroller

TD Gaming Podcast Episode 75: Getting Stimulated

June 20th, 2008 · No Comments

This week we’ve got some crazy statistics that says Red Teams beat Blue Teams. According to a study published last week in a Cyberpsychology & Behaviour journal, during a study of 1,347 matches between “elite teams” in Unreal Tournament 2k4 … and all things being equal, the red team won 55% of the time. Huh? […]

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Tags: Episode · Podcast

Gaming Flashback: Secret of the Silver Blades

June 20th, 2008 · No Comments

I miss old SSI games and all the beauty and wonder they brought me as a child. Perhaps it’s more of the feeling of playing old MS-DOS games and that no worries feeling of playing games all summer long when your parents are out working; no cares in the world but that of the evil […]

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Tags: Flashback · Podcast · Retro · RPG

Gaming Flashback: SimCity

June 20th, 2008 · No Comments

SimCity was released in 1989, was originally called Micropolis and was designed by the infamous Will Wright. For those that don’t know Will Wright, its suffice to say he’s one of the most popular and influential game designers of our time. SimCity, TheSims, SimAnt, SimFarm and Spore are a few of his hits and TheSims […]

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Tags: Flashback · Podcast · Simulations