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Best Games of the Year 2009: Adam’s List

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

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Ah, 2009. A fun year for video games and a broke year for this reviewer, who in his shame admits freely to having not played as many games as his esteemed colleagues-in-pixilated-arms. I mean, I just got Borderlands as a Christmas gift, so there’s no making it onto my list this year (blasphemous, I know.) Always lagging behind, I am. And look—not a single PC-only game on my Top 5. I don’t even recognize myself in the mirror anymore.

Click the jump below to check out my Top 5 picks of the year, as well as two noteworthy honorable mentions.

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BLAST PROCESSING! Episode 33: Attack of the Goat People

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

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Dave and Tim join Erich for a discussion of games old and new, including Halo: ODST, Scribblenauts, The Beatles: Rock Band, Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story, and Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection. In news, Super Street Fighter IV has Dave super excited, and the boys allocate their gaming dollars for the rest of the year. This week’s Symposium Ad Nauseum is Zombie Killin’. This week’s show may or may not be crazy good. It depends on how much you like fake movie reviews written for small college newspapers.

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Dave’s Take: Scribblenauts (DS)

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

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As a committed “hardcore” type of gamer (yay Ninja Gaiden 2!  Boo Horsez Magical Marshmallow Journeys), the fact that I had this game on my must-buy list was a big step out of my comfort zone.

But the previews I read about 5th Cell’s wonder-game had me craving it and so it resided just below Uncharted 2 on my most-anticipated fall gaming list.  Does it live up to the hype?

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BLAST PROCESSING! Episode 32: Go Team Canada!

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

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The head shrink takes a week off, leaving the inmates running the asylum. Steve, Adam, and Jon bring some Canadian flair to the proceedings as they dig deep, peel back the layers, and get to the real heart of video game podcasting. Adam talks about World of Warcraft content updates, We all love Scribblenauts, Jon gets Wet and Steve races fast cars and prances around New Mombasa as Nathan Fillion (what?). We also learn that no one wants a PSP Go, Super Street Fighter 4 is coming, Dave Johnson needs roofing work done, Steve wants Enslaved, and Bioware (but not pure wholesome Canadian Bioware) and Lucasarts are gearing to start beta testing on Star Wars: The Old Republic. Meanwhile, more games get scheduled for ‘Q1 2010′, including more obscure stuff that only Steve cares about, and Demon’s Souls made HARDER? What? We clue everything up with a discussion about crappy physics, or crappy Genesis games. This episode may be bad, but it ain’t Earnest Evans!

The following words do not appear in this week’s Canuck-centric podcast – Bacon, beer, Beaver, toonie, looney, touque, Tim Horton’s, Degrassi, aboot, eh, or hockey.

Special cameo appearance by Adam’s wife (OMG! A gurlz!)

Music credits:
Opening: the theme from Danger Bay
Closing: ‘Run With Us’ from The Raccoons

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BLAST PROCESSING! Episode 31: Adventures in Text

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

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Erich, Dave, and Tim reminisce about the frustrating days of text adventures as an appetizer to a discussion of modern games including Tales of Monkey Island: Episode 1, Scribblenauts, Halo 3: ODST, Dead Space, and Lost Odyssey. In news, what do price drops, rebates, and bundles mean for the holiday shopping season? And in Symposium Ad Nauseum: throwing heads, guns without bullets, and balls as weapons.

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Review: Scribblenauts (DS)

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

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The Charge:
Write anything, solve anything.

Opening Statement:
Rumored, whispered about, discussed and debated—rarely does a Nintendo DS game see so much speculation. Enter Scribblenauts, developed by 5th Cell, winner of “Best of Show” at E3 2009, the first portable game ever to do so. From its earliest teaser trailers and first-hand reports, people knew this was going to be something significant, a game with endless possibilities and creative applications.

Well, kinda. Now that the game is in hand, hindsight tells us it was almost impossible for it to live up to everyone’s expectations. In many ways, Scribblenauts is exactly as advertised—you can write anything into it, and it appears. The possibilities and combinations of items are seriously impressive, and you will be stunned at how much time and energy has gone into predicting every weird object you could possibly think to conjure. On the other hand, something had to give… and where things go tepid are the gameplay elements.

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BLAST PROCESSING! Episode 30: Lateral Thinking

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

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Erich, Steve, and Jon celebrate the big three-oh with a hefty discussion of games old and new, including Muramasa: The Demon Blade, Scribblenauts, The Beatles: Rock Band, Shadow Complex, Uncharted, Killzone 2, Grand Theft Auto IV DLC, and Vampire: The Masquerade — Redemption. In News, Nintendo may or may not be price dropping the Wii, Zelda: Spirit Tracks gets a release date, Bobby Kotick hates fun, people are buying PS3s, and Uncharted 2 early reviews are great. This week’s Symposium Ad Nauseum: Shooting Things with a Spaceship.

Over in the Tooting Our Own Horns Department, be sure to check out the Demon’s Souls trailer on GameTrailers.com, featuring a quote from Steve’s review! If you’d like to congratulate him, weigh in on the show, or complain about our insufferable back-patting, please leave a comment below, head over to the DVD Verdict Jury Room forums, or email us at feedback@pixelverdict.com.

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MAG Deploying to 2010? Meeting Up with Bioshock 2 for a Latte?

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

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I sort of hate the useless moniker AAA title, which exists solely for fanboys to toss at each other in message board poop fights.  But with the rumor of Sony’s humongous online shooter slipping to 2010 I think there is a viable question of the number of heavy hitter games landing on consoles this year.

Perhaps we’ve been spoiled by 2008’s gargantuan year, but the forecast does look a mite slim, especially when you consider Bioshock 2 was bumped (much to the chagrin of Take2’s stock holders).

What’s remains out there, calling to you for your money?  Me–Uncharted 2 tops the list, followed by Splinter Cell Conviction and Scribblenauts and maybe Bayonetta.  But that’s it for Day 1 purchases methinks…

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