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Guitar Hero: Mars Tour
Activision’s ambitious plans to take fake plastic rock to new frontiers seem to be moving along nicely. I love how the lawyers thought they should use this wording JUST. IN. CASE. There are many reasons one might want to book a commerical space flight, but fleeing Earth just to reclaim rights on a crappy thrash ...
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Called Back to Duty: Treyarch on Iterating on Success
Ten minutes after I’d finished interviewing Noah Heller, Call of Duty: World at War’s producer, he walked over to were I was now sitting and asked: “Do you think you could take out the swearing? Oh. And please, please don’t make Infinity Ward mad with me…” While Treyarch, developer of the odd-numbered Call of Duty ...
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Japan Trip Stat Breakdown
Jellyfish eaten: 1 Karaoke sessions sung: 4 Highest score for single song: 11.5 (kCal) for, um, ‘Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing’. Favourite Final Fantasy title of Square-Enix staff polled: 5 Least Favourite Final Fantasy title of Square-Enix staff polled: 10 Best retro bargain found in Akihabara: Final Fantasy 1+2 Famicom Box Set at 1800 yen ...
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On Life’s Finest Moments #2
In Shibuya today I took a perfect round against a Japanese Street Fighter 4 player. On reflection, it’s a bit racist (albeit in the most generous possible sense) to suggest that every Japanese is a master of the 2D beat ‘em up – it might very well have been this kid’s first game – but ...
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The Best Monday on Record
This week I’m in Tokyo with Square-Enix on an assignment for Edge and Official Xbox 360. But last night I was here for no reason other than to see D.V.D. and have a totally sweet adventure. After an hour or so of investigating the nether regions of Tokyo’s metro system, aiming urgent gesticulations at passers-by ...
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Fallout 3: I Kill Children
Washington D.C. is a bleak and difficult place to eke out an existence. From the moment you exit the relative safety of Vault 101 and take your first lungful of radioactive breeze, it’s clear that Fallout 3′s development team has created a post-apocalyptic capital wasteland of grim authenticity. Indeed, if a player harbors any sort ...