Tag Archive: Gears of War

Mar 15

Nerds on the Rocks 126: Trilogy Time!

This week with the release of God of War Ascension fresh in our minds, and Gears of War Judgment looming in the not-so-distant future, we thought it would be a fine time to tackle the idea of long-form narratives in gaming. We look at franchises in which it worked, didn’t work and just went right …

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Oct 08

Dual Wielding 84: Sony’s Epic Wrath

This week’s Dual Wielding kicks off with a discussion about new Super Mario Bros 2 DLC and some thoughts on Capcom’s interesting experiment in Asura’s Wrath. Our focus then switches to news with word of Sony suing their (we assume former at this point) marketing icon, Kevin Butler, for appearing in a Bridgestone commercial. On …

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Aug 15

Dual Wielding 43: The Long-Tail Edition

The 3DS finally finds a home among the podcasters (we would count Anthony’s, but he’s been busy this summer!) so discussion on the rather questionable handheld takes up the bulk of whatcha been playing. There’s also talk of Bastion, Torchlight and Metroid: Other M. The news quickly derails as we discuss RAGE’s install size, single …

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Jul 30

State of Gaming ’11: The Xbox Brand

I originally wrote a piece on the State of Microsoft Gaming just under a year ago. A year later, I felt it was time to re-evaluate Microsoft’s position. What has changed in the past 12 months? What rights have been wronged? What wrongs have sprung to life?       As I said a year ago, I …

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Jul 07

Bar Banter: The State of Exclusives

One of the biggest weapons in a fans arsenal when it comes to the “console wars” is a system’s exclusive line-up. Each and every side, will declare that they have the best exclusives for this reason or that.  We decided to do a bit of research and see if any one console actually had a …

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May 07

Review Shooter: BulletStorm

(Review courtesy of Jason Ragatz, check his blog here) With Bulletstorm, developer People Can Fly, along with parent company Epic Games and publishing partner Electronic Arts, have brought us one of the freshest, funniest, and  most flat-out entertaining first person shooters we have seen in a long, long time. The entire game is based on a simple concept: …

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Mar 29

My Video Games ABCs

This idea comes from Josh on Twitter, who got it from somewhere else, and I’m really not searching back that far! The idea is simple enough for every little of the alphabet, I shall post my favorite game, some of them have been combined as to not spread out over the list (Super Mario for …

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Jan 31

Dual Wielding 18: N(ext) G(en) P(odcasting)

If the clever title hasn’t given it away, this week’s episode is focused on Sony’s reveal of its newest handheld, NGP (Next Gen Portable), we go over almost all the major talking points including controls schemes, look and of course the games. Then there’s talks of TimeSplitters 4 (can it finally happen? Will Daniel die …

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