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Unless you don’t watch TV (in which case, why the heck are you surfing the Internet?), you’ve probably seen all the commercials out there for Afro Samurai.  Even if you aren’t really paying attention, Samuel L. Jackson’s infamous bad-ass voice is likely to pique your interest at least a little. This game is available on [...]

So … this is not going to be about standard gaming news.  I have recently gotten into PC games – not WoW or things like that, but the kinds of games you can find on places like BigFish and iWin.  Two titles stand out, each of them with two games in their series’. First up [...]

It’s been a twenty-year wait, and in the end, is the returning thing still recognizable? Compare. Above is the package illustration for the original Bionic Commando, which I played in my youth. He’s a clean-cut kind of super-agent with a funky stretchable bionic grappling-arm-hook-thing. These are screenshots from the new version. Dreadlocks, really? An not [...]

It’s interesting to me that the PC game version of the latest Narnia film, “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” is being released before the film actually comes out in theaters. Could it be that the publisher expects demand to be so great that players will want their Prince Caspian fix any which way they [...]

Pictured above is a possible before-and-after shot of Kid Icarus, if the rumors pan out. It seems the game’s possible developer, Factor 5, will be pitching a Nintendo Wii remake of the classic NES platform game. That would be mind-blowing–especially considering Kid Icarus has been around longer than many gamers! NES fans will certainly feel [...]

 It’s about time we had something other than dragons and spaceships to populate our MMORPG gaming worlds. Recent trends have increased the viability of online games featuring Asian, particularly Chinese, historical characters and gameplay elements. Hollywood is partly the reason for this, with box-office hits like “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:, “Hero” and the recent “The [...]