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Make GameStop’s Activity Book for them, win $500

This is probably been at the GameStop DEAR GOD DON’T YOU WANT TO PREORDER SOMETHING counter for a while now… it’s a very nice Activity Book featuring a AAA lineup of E-rated games. High quality paper, lots of nice full color character art. The actual puzzles are pretty lousy and the interior cover looks [...]

PixelJunk Monsters + StarCraft + giant space poo = Savage Moon

Fresh from the PlayStation Blog, news of a new PSN title… Savage Moon. From the announcement:
Coming exclusively to PLAYSTATION Network this fall, Savage Moon is a frantic, action-packed tower defense game in a gritty sci-fi setting. You are tasked with protecting mining facilities from ravenous space bugs using some truly fearsome weaponry. And you’ll need [...]

Read-a-long with Nintendo Power #233 (October 2008)

The first first-party cover feature in six months heralds an excellent issue, full of some great details, reveals and surprises. Read-a-long!
Issue #233, October 2008
featured games: Wario Land: Shake It!, Time Hollow, House of the Dead: Overkill, Kirby Super Star Ultra
The main article this month is the promised E3 coverage, “The Big 15.” Nine upcoming Wii [...]

Why sure, I’ll cover Babysitting Party

I’m actually kinda diggin’ these screenshots.
This is Babysitting Party, coming to Wii sometime this year. The publisher? Ubisoft, the company that has already smelled blood in the water by releasing a zillion games like Just Imagine: Paralegal and Petz Dragonz (which was retitled “Lair” for the PS3 version). But hey, this is how they’re funding [...]

Nintendo Power reveals more about Animal Crossing: City Folk; teases DLC

The latest Nintendo Power has a three-pager on the upcoming Wii iteration of Animal Crossing. The initial trailer (from that famed E3 event) left me a smidge worried, because an awful lot of Animal Crossing 2008 looks like Animal Crossing 2001. But the interview with AC’s creator Katsuya Eguchi drops some cool-sounding features poised to [...]

Kratos in Hot Shots Golf looks like an April Fool’s prank, but isn’t

So we don’t get Kratos in Soulcalibur IV, but we do get him in Hot Shots Golf?! Get outta town. I will never forgive Sony for this.
According to the PlayStation.blog, he’s showing up as part of this week’s PlayStation Store update. The article does not mention how much this will cost Hot Shots Golf: Out [...]

MK vs DCU: Green Lantern / Joker screens, more characters revealed

In advance of their Leipzig press conference, Midway released nine new Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe screenshots, spotlighting recent character reveals Green Lantern (Hal Jordan version) and the Joker.
Kotaku noted four more MK vs DCU combatants, revealed via a post-speech slideshow: Raiden and Kano representing MK, and Wonder Woman and Deathstroke from the DC [...]

From Boom to Bust, Fantastic to Forgotten

Leigh Alexander, gaming blogger and new hire at Gamasutra, just posted an excellent thought-provoker on her personal weblog, Sexy Videogameland. It’s something I too have often thought about: why exactly do we yearn and yearn for certain games over months - years, even - and then immediately forget about them approximately 24 hours after release [...]

How my son plays Mario Kart; How I play Mario Kart

I’ve had my own personal weblog for like a decade now, and I don’t want to make a habit of mining my old weblog posts as “new” for Aeropause, but the guys on the Aeropodcast convinced me to dig up this one. This is a short video I made of me and my son playing [...]

Review: Soulcalibur IV (PS3)

I think one of the Soulcalibur series’ charms is that it is so inscrutably pompous. From the choose-your-own-adventure story mode to head-scratchingly super-serious dialogue like “Transcending history… and the world,” Soulcalibur is a traditional fighting game that aspires to be a JRPG and nobody ever told it that it’s not. I mean, I’m certainly not [...]