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Raj Patel on Dec 8th, 2008 |
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It has been a couple of years since the Microsoft Live Vision Camera for the Xbox 360 landed on consumer shelves. It wasnt a totally horrible idea but for what was essentially a modified LifeCam for your Xbox, it was somewhat expensive and woefully underutilized. With a handful of exceptions hardly any popular games have used it effectively. This peice of hardware is nothing without software to take advantage of it...
Posted by
Raj Patel on Nov 18th, 2008 |
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Valve just launched their new game on the ten year anniversary of their classic title Half-Life. This new game puts you and three comrades in a city overrun by zombies. Your mission? To survive. You’ve got to escape the city in order to survive, moving from safe-house to safe-house. There have been zombie themed games in the past, of course. It even seems like nowadays between games and movies, zombies are the...
Posted by
Raj Patel on Nov 16th, 2008 |
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Shaun White Snowboarding has just dropped in a shelf-filling seven flavors (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, DS, PSP, PS2 and PC.) With home video game consoles the Wii is in many ways the runt of the pack, lacking the raw horsepower of the Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 (both powered by the award-winning Assassin’s Creed engine). Usually with large multiplatform games like this, the Wii version ends up being a crippled and...
Posted by
Raj Patel on Nov 13th, 2008 |
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Far Cry was an interesting game years ago. It was a first person shooter with a difference. It really shook things up in the genre with its tight AI and amazingly far draw distances in a seemingly open world. It also has a significant problem where the game fell apart in the second half with an unfortunate plot and gameplay twist which was seen to many as being three steps back. Its first official sequel is here...
Posted by
Raj Patel on Nov 6th, 2008 |
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Gears of War 2 is set to be one of this year’s hottest game releases. Its namesake released two years ago to huge critical acclaim and remains one of the most visually impressive titles on the Xbox 360. With the sequel everything was promised to be improved in every aspect. With all the other impressive new games on the scene this month, Gears of War 2 doesn’t really need to bring its A-Game in order to get...
