Articles by Joe Fourhman
Twin sisters Mio Amakura and Mayu Amakura are visiting a childhood play spot when Mayu, who walks with a perpetual limp after a childhood accident, follows a mysterious crimson butterfly deep into the woods. Mio, concerned for her twin, follows Mayu, and the two girls are led to a lost village. While curiously empty, the village appears to have been cursed by some past event. The curse appears to be related to a failed ritual of human sacrifice involving twins, where one twin sacrifices another. This ritual was supposed to keep the Hell Gate beneath the village closed. After one of the twins designated for the sacrifice flees the village, the remaining monks attempt to complete the ritual by hanging Yae's sister, but this instead opens the Hell Gate and releases the evil spirits held inside, who flood the village and kill everyone present.
This was mailed to me sometime during 2002 or 2003. Back then, you used to get all kinds of great crazy crap in the mail if you registered your games or were on the PlayStation …
GAME> Onimusha: Warlords (2001)
SYSTEM> PS2
SOURCE> Official PlayStation Magazine #59, August 2002
Beat the game, be a panda.
When Apple announced the iPad a couple weeks ago, a lot of people said “Well, it looks nice, but why doesn’t it have a camera?” Which logically positions the camera as The One Thing holding …
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GAME> NFL Blitz (1998)
SYSTEM> Game Boy Color
SOURCE> GamePro presents Handheld Video Games, Winter 1999
Tomorrow’s Super Bowl would be a lot more interesting if it took place in a parking lot and had a Predator Mode.
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GAME> Mario Kart Wii (2008)
SYSTEM> Nintendo Wii
SOURCE> Mario Kart Wii Trading Cards, 2009
I bought ONE PACK of Mario Kart Wii cards and received two freakin’ Diddy Kong cards. WTF.
Bonus Piranha Prowler unlock tip after the …
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Do you have a gaming disappointment for Sad Chao …
Here’s a little games-and-violence story from sunny old Italy, “Italian teen stabs father in PlayStation row.”
A fifteen year old boy stabbed his father in the neck with a knife after dad tried to offer PlayStation …
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