&#39;Apocalypse&#39; best left to game fanatics
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com. When a film puts &quot;Apocalypse&quot; in the title, you expect more than what you get with &quot;Resident Evil: Apocalypse.
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&quot;Resident Evil: Apocalypse,&quot; the sequel to 2002&#39;s &quot;Resident Evil,&quot; based on a video game series about blowing apart shuffling, bio-poisoned zombie attackers, opened at No.
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Tycho:  Rhythm games aren't my forte, but I have a lot of inbuilt experience with meter which helps me fake it until I can build genuine skill.  And, as rhythm elements have crept into the entire medium, Tycho stock has been in a boom phase.  It's understandable, then, that while I soar and illuminate - and Gabriel sputters, bound to earth - tensions related to my prowess have begun to burn red-hot.  That is, until they cool again.  These things have a way of working themselves out in the fullness of time.          There's an incredible article over at Wired this month (and possibly also in the magazine?) about the Bungie's psychological approach to game design.  What a tremendous challenge it must be to retain authorial control in such a case!  As someone whose output is rarely screened by any agency, the whole thing gave me chills.  The right to fail nobly in a creative endeavor (as we sometimes do) is such a powerful luxury.  No such luxury may be extended to them, upon whose toil an entire platform rests.  God keep me from such a fate.          I keep hearing that Metroid Prime 3: Corruption isn't being promoted very well, but the person saying this always seems to know about it, and then when people share this complaint in the thread those people also seem to be "in the know."  It ships on the twenty-seventh of August, if you weren't aware - but since you almost certainly are, we needn't dwell on it.  What we should be dwelling on are the series of teaser vids that Retro has been trickling out.  Metroid's largely mysterious heroine has always been a huge draw for me, and going into deep detail about the character would actually damage the mystique.  But the universe she operates in need not be vague, which is why these clips are such a rich meal:  there's the Aurora Unit trailer that modernizes ancient Metroid canon in a classy way, and there's a treat at the end of the Valhalla trailer that ties it all together.  They both cover a setting that has gotten darker and more sophisticated, tones we don't typically associate with Nintendo.       We like to get kicks in on the post-Harmonix Guitar Hero, partly based on their "wacky" multiplayer concept - which ordinary gamers will probably love - but also out of a sort of tribal loyalty.  This having been established, they've built an authentically heroic tracklist that really has a lot of beef.  Going from the most recent Rock Band announcement out of Leipzig, both versions appear to have Radiohead's "Creep" and the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage," which is something of a comfort.  After seeing different songs on each game from Metallica and The Rolling Stones, I wasn't sure if they were already traveling down the catalogues securing exclusive weaponry.  I hope that the labels in this case see the old wisdom of arming both sides.
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Tycho: Keek directed me to a radical (and potentially even "badical") article on BioShock over at Gamers Wif Jobs. I've been wondering about the recent PR shift the game has gone through, because I don't just keep hearing that it is a "shooter first," but I keep hearing specifically that it is a "kick-ass shooter," even though it's a game where you learn about Objectivism underwater while helping jealous composers get revenge. I've never doubted that the game will be great, by whatever road it reaches that greatness. The recent WWE slant just had me curious about whether I'll be able to perform a suplex in-game. You may not think that is important, but it is totally important.(CW)TB
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This season&#39;s blockbuster video games give players the opportunity to hijack cars, mow down the walking undead with heavy artillery and ogle topless women.
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Brett Favre won the last of his three straight MVP awards in 1997. But it&#39;s difficult to imagine the greatest Packer of all time ever being more valuable - to his fans, to his franchise
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The game isn&#39;t for everyone because of its graphic violence and coarse language, but mature fans of this 32 million-unit-selling franchise who want to know if this sequel lives up to its hype, the answer is a resounding yes.
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LOS ANGELES  -- Even before &quot;Resident Evil: Apocalypse&quot; wins the weekend box office - bringing in $9 mil at the top spot on Friday alone - star Milla Jovovich is raring to continue her action star franchise.
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The game maker offers its broadest look yet at the upcoming game, where the survival of the fittest begins in the primordial ooze.
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Tycho: Gabe had to watch the other Gabe today, so we made the comic a day in advance. It's about the guy who wrote that ridiculous Mass Effect article. We decided to put it up a day early because, just as we predicted in the strip, he's taken a swipe at gamers. The young man quoted in his piece did not represent our community well, but locking horns with a professional liar would bring out the worst in anyone. (CW)TB
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This has been some kind of week with the Boston Red Sox finally winning the World Series. That begs the question - if the Chicago Cubs step up next year and win the whole thing, do these events qualify as official signals that the Apocalypse is upon us?
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Gabe: There is some really nice HD footage from PAX available over at gametrailers.com now. They have a pretty slick behind the scenes look at how the show comes together as well as an interview with Gaybe and Tykoh from Pennies Arcadez!
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There is a part of gamer psychology that is rarely discussed, but incredibly important: We are thrilled by wanton destruction. We need it like a form of food. Commentary by Clive Thompson.
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Clive Thompson cranks out the last annual roundup of top independent videogames that he'll ever need to write. Commentary.
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Horror movies have a right to be tacky. Good taste really shouldn&#39;t cross anybody&#39;s mind while determining the swift arc of an ax or a cool trajectory for blood to spray. But if you&#39;re looking for ...
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The Green Bay Packers&#39; season was hanging in the balance under a pile of humanity early Sunday evening with 71 seconds remaining in an epic game here at Lambeau Field.
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The Australian Football League Grand Final between Brisbane Lions and Port Adelaide on Saturday marks an epoch for Australia&#39;s favorite spectator sport.