October 15th, 2009 05:49am
by GameWit
Looking to pick up some of this summer and early fall’s big releases? A couple of retailers are running a deal through Saturday where if you buy two games, you’ll get a third of equal or lesser value for free.
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October 3rd, 2009 03:28pm
by GameWit
“Wii Fit Plus” (rated E, $20 as standalone game, $100 bundled with balance board): If you already own a balance board and are still enjoying the first “Wii Fit,” plunking down a mere $20 for the sequel seems like a no-brainer. The exercise game includes everything you’ll find on the original “Wii Fit” (meaning there’s no reason to buy the first game anymore unless you get it with a balance …
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May 1st, 2009 02:08am
by GameWit
Last week, I blogged about (and The Press Democrat carried an article about) a new study that suggested children between the ages of 8 and 18 were capable of becoming addicted to video games. To briefly recap, I (and most folks who cover the game industry) found a whole mess of things wrong with the study, the most significant of which was that it was using questions designed to detect …
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April 29th, 2009 06:45pm
by GameWit
Despite real-world locales and arsenals, realistic first- and third-person shooters tend to shy away from too much realism. Shooters set in modern times, such as “Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare” or “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas,” steer clear of the headlines and revolve around fictional stories of terrorists threatening to topple unstable regimes in often unnamed third-world nations. It’s up to the player, often taking on the role of …
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April 24th, 2009 09:30am
by GameWit
“Left 4 Dead” (rated M, $30 for PC, $50 for Xbox 360): This week’s free downloadable content means that all four of the game’s campaigns are now playable in versus mode. More importantly, the download makes available a new gameplay mode, “Survival,” in which players fight off wave after wave of undead, with each wave getting more intense than the last. A couple of friends of mine and I tried …
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April 24th, 2009 02:26am
by GameWit
Fans of Jack Black’s whacky musical antics and Sonoma native Tim Schafer’s whimsical, wry, oddball games will be delighted to know that “Brutal Legend,” the latest game from Schafer’s San Francisco-based development house, Double Fine, is set to release Oct. 13.
Schafer’s past credits include one of my favorite games from last console generation, “Psychonauts,” as well as a number of beloved titles he worked on while at LucasArts, such as …
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April 22nd, 2009 07:45pm
by GameWit
For anyone waiting for Lego branded video games to move on from the platform-jumping stylings of “Lego Star Wars,” “Lego Indiana Jones” and “Lego Batman,” the announcement of “Lego Rock Band” this week is welcome news, if not exactly what we were hoping for. It’ll be great not to play essentially the same game with slightly different characters for the fourth or fifth time in a row, but it’s hard …
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April 21st, 2009 10:30am
by GameWit
A study out this week, and reported on Page A9 of today’s Press Democrat, suggests that children can become addicted to playing video games, displaying such classic signs as skimping on homework, lying about how much they play games and struggling when they try to cut back.
The study, by an assistant professor at Iowa State University, was published online Monday and is based on a 2007 Harris Interactive poll of …
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April 21st, 2009 02:50am
by GameWit
Going back at least to the PlayStation vs. Nintendo 64 days, Nintendo has had a reputation for targeting their games and consoles at kids and families. There’s certainly nothing wrong with this strategy, but its effect has been greatly overstated. The GameCube, after all, was the original home of “Resident Evil 4,” and titles like “Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem” and “Beyond Good & Evil” surely weren’t made with children in …
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April 17th, 2009 09:00am
by GameWit
None of this week’s new releases looks particularly good. Last year, gamers got “Grand Theft Auto IV,” one of the year’s biggest titles, in April. This year? Nothing much. This week’s best bet is a free map pack for a game that came out two months ago.
“F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin” (rated M, $60 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, $50 for PC): As far as downloadable multiplayer maps go, it’s …
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