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I think I've officially outgrown Final Fantasy, formerly my favorite series. What caused this to happen?
Thursday, August 05, 2010 | Comments (13)
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I had the pleasure and privilege of attending a press screening for Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World and this is my review. As a life long gamer, I was happy to see a lot of authentic nods to my favorite games of yore. The movie excels at creating a slick real life comic game. It's everything a geek would want in a film.
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A review of Limbo encompassing childhood fears and an inevitable comparison with Jonathan Blow's Braid.
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Microsoft's $149 Kinect pricing shouldn't have come as a surprise to anyone following the story. In fact, just a year ago that price point would have been praised. What went wrong to cause such a backlash from almost every games community on the Internet?
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"Robert, that may be true, but many (if not all) of the launch Kinect games have 1:1 body tracking that appear on screen. In other words, you're not mapping body movements to another action. Whatever you do with your body is what happens on screen.

Games may deviate from this in the future, but in the worst case you are learning only one set of rules and input, rather than having to deal with mapping finger presses to buttons and sticks and THEN learning what those movements and button presses translate to in game. "

Thursday, July 22, 2010
"I didn't go into the games pricing, but other than Dance Central I have real trouble justifying even $50 for most of those titles. Granted, I am basing this conclusion off of E3 demo builds, but they'll have to do something really dramatic to the shipping versions to change my opinion."
Thursday, July 22, 2010