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Zhengtu Online: Video Game or Chinese Casino? 2008-05-16 23:42:00 The other day I stumbled upon a news item reporting that a Chinese
MMORPG, Zhengtu Online, had become the first game in the world to have more than two million players logged on at the same time. Two million people.The number of Chinese with internet access stands at only about 220 million. This means almost one per cent of people who can use the internet were logged onto Zhengtu Online at exactly Read more:Casino
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The Gayest Video Game Ever 2008-05-12 03:40:00 It's a dark evening in inner-city New York. The alleyways are full of trash and graffiti. Criminals are lurking everywhere – junkies, gangsters, even murderers.You take a wrong turn down a shadowy alleyway, and soon find yourself surrounded by a gang of thugs. They don't say anything, they just set upon you.It's a frightening scenario, and sets the scene for just about every side-scrolling beat Read more:Video Game
Why Street Fighter One sucks 2008-05-27 02:27:00 With all the hype surrounding the upcoming release of Street
Fighter 4, I thought it might be a good idea to look back on how the series began… and how god-awful it was to begin with.Most people are aware of the meteoric success of Street Fighter 2. Released in 1991, it was an instant arcade smash, and went on to spawn countless sequels – most of which included the indistinguishable words "hyp Read more:sucks
MMORPG Outrage: Age of Conan gives players a breast reduction 2008-06-02 07:19:00 Sordid sex stories are the bread and butter of entertainment journalism. It’s what celebrity tabloids thrive on.In videogames, however, sex controversies don’t seem to pop up that much. Aside from your occasional hot coffee debate, there really isn’t much going on out there. It's assumed most game players don’t have girlfriends (if they did, why would they be up all night questioning the Read more:Conan
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The seven weirdest ways to die in a video game 2008-06-13 18:13:00 There's no point in denying it: killing things in video
games is cool. Gamers know it. Game developers know it. That's why so much creative energy is put into designing the most spectacular, ridiculous and gruesome death scenes possible.But all this death in video games is getting a little clichéd. Guns, explosions, decapitations... sure they are fun, but we've seen it all before. How many times
Battle of the fighting game geriatrics 2008-06-23 00:34:00 Fighting games are full of clichés when it comes to their characters. Every fighting game features a spiky-haired Japanese guy wearing a headband (Ryu, Akira). There is always a busty, scantily clad girl, who breathes a little too heavily and fights with a fan (Kitana, Mai). And then there’s my personal favourite cliché: the old, geriatric kung fu master.Every fighting game has one. He’s the Read more:Battle
An Ode to Street Fighter IV 2008-08-24 09:32:00 A few days ago, I discovered that a Street
Fighter IV machine had been spotted in Australia. It just so happened that this machine was only a 10 minute walk away from my work. So I trudged down to Melbourne's Crown Casino last night to get my hands on the most hyped fighting game ever. This is what happened:As I descended into the dark, cavernous cave that is the Casino’s arcade, I immediately s Read more:Street Fighter
MadWorld for the Wii: Here Comes Controversy 2008-08-15 20:29:00 The upcoming Sega beat 'em up, MadWorld, is already generating plenty of controversy. It's still at least six months away from an official release, but Britain's Daily Mail has already started drumming up public hysteria over the game's "unsavoury" themes.MadWorld is a third-person beat 'em up for the Wii
. It's also, possibly, one of the most violent games ever created. In fact, it's so violent th Read more:Controversy
Screen of the Week Archive 2008-04-30 22:08:00 Click through to see Killscreen Poetry's famous screenshots of the week....August: Read more:Archive
Metal Slug 7? More like Metal Slug version 1.7 2008-09-14 00:39:00 Back in 1996, arcade gamers were dazzled by the release of the chaotic shooter Metal
Slug. Featuring super-quick gameplay, a comical graphical style, and far too much blood for a platformer, Metal Slug
generated legions of fans. Indeed, the original Metal Slug featured such an addictive co-operative mode, and was so stupidly difficult, that it sent many shooting fans bankrupt... even at the bargai Read more:version
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