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Archive for January 8th, 2009

Mission Complete: GTA IV


Spoilers for GTA throughout

GTA IV: With the Lost and Damned Expansion coming out in the near future, I decided to finally finish the Grand Theft Auto IV story, once, and for all. I had mostly just Phil

more neglect ahead

So it’s gonna be a wee bit longer until the blog gets a proper update as I am off on a trip out of town for the next few days. Until then, enjoy this totally awesome video promoting Dead Rising: Chop

wii games to look forward to in 2009!

After the dismal year the Wii had in 2008 things can only be looking up, right? Well, there are quite a few things to look forward to in the coming year for the family-friendly console. One that is piquing

zelda never fails to satisfy

I picked up The Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass for the Nintendo DS recently and all I can say is that it lives up to its excellent reviews. This game is truly one that any DS player can enjoy

UGO Chief Tells Us His Side Of 1UP Purchase Saga

UGOIf UGO hadn’t bought 1UP, things could have been a lot worse. That’s what the company’s CEO told me in an interview that began with me asking: “How do you like being a bad guy”?

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Blog Celebrates The Art of Classic Game Packaging

As big fans of box art, we here at MTV Multiplayer call out the good (and mostly bad) ones that get released every week. So when we stumbled on this excellent blog collecting all the great video

iPhone Tries To Go 3D And Fails At MacWorld

3D is all the rage at movie these days and at last year’s CES, I saw it applied to games. The last placed I expected 3D tech.,however, was the iPhone. Yet, at MacWorld 2009, I encountered two companies

What We’re NOT Playing (Sorry ‘Far Cry 2,’ ‘Wii Fit’ and ‘Driver’s Ed Portable’)

Since it’s the start of a new year, there aren’t many new games to ignore right now. But we’ve still got plenty of titles from 2008 that we’re giving the cold shoulder.

Lunchtime Video – Live From MacWorld 2009

Well, almost live. I recorded this while sitting on the floor of MacWorld 2009 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, same as the Game Developers Conference. Today’s video is later than usual due

Fate Of EGM’s Unpublished 20th Anniversary Issue Unknown

The last printed issue of the just-canceled Electronic Gaming Monthly, will be the January 2009 issue. But production on February issue, which would have been its 20th anniversary, had already begun internally