Category: M$
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Game Overview/Food For Thought: Odds and Ends
I tell ya, it’s been a good long while since I’ve had to write a post that’s not really about baseball and it’s got me rather at a loss of what to do. Instead of focusing on one topic today, instead let’s look at a variety of things going on that I care about: Peter […]
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Sony/M$ E3: Carrying the Torch
Yoshinori Kitase has huge shoes to fill. As the producer of Final Fantasy XIII he’s looking at doing a job last held by Horonobu Sakaguchi in Final Fantasy X. Ok, Sakachuchi was technically the executive producer of that game, but with no other producers announced for XIII, I’m gonna come out and call him the […]
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M$ E3: Avatars
There’s one huge fact about the Xbox 360 avatar system that makes me want to tell Microsoft to shove it: having to pay for stuff to outfit your avatar. Not content with milking money from users in every other way, Microsoft has decided that avatar customization will not be a free affair. What utter crap.
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M$: Buh! Squeenix Makes a Smart, but Unexpected Move
Many a developer has come out saying that console exclusives just don’t make any sense in this new, expensive game development environment. That being said, I’m pretty sure no one on earth outside of Square Enix could possibly have predicted that Final Fantasy XIII will be simultaneously launching on both the Xbox 360 and PS3 […]
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Big N, M$, Sony: Mega Man 9
If you read my 8-bit All-Stars feature you know I love me some Mega Man 2. There was just something sublimely perfect about that game with its polished level design and great boss battles. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen a real sequel to a Mega Man game. The last canonical MM game […]
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M$: Lost Odyssey Review
SPOILER ALERT: This review may contain story spoilers. Read at your own risk! Sakaguchi’s new company Mistwalker has had its share of problems. For very perplexing reasons they chose to chiefly develop for the Xbox 360 with side development on the Nintendo DS. As a result, nothing they make for the home console, no matter […]