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You're not being reasonable
Ever since it came out, it seems like Wii Play has been somewhere on top of sales charts and even managed to be the #2 top-seller of 2007 in the US . Let's be clear about this: even if it looks like a good deal, being only $10 above the price of a standalone...
Posted: Feb 15 2008, 05:07 PM by Bertrand Le Roy | with 7 comment(s)
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How to build the best fake music instrument set for Guitar Hero and Rock Band
Here's how to build an instrument set with two guitars/basses, a drum set and a mike that will work for Guitar Hero and Rock Band . The first thing you need to know is that the Rock Band Fender Stratocaster guitar sucks . Here's why: The fret buttons...
Posted: Nov 29 2007, 04:44 PM by Bertrand Le Roy | with 6 comment(s)
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Arbitrary Criteria Game Review: Portal is as delicious as cake
What a great time to be a gamer. It seems like there is no end in sight to that steady stream of excellent games. We already got Bioshock , Halo 3 , the Orange Box , Guitar Hero III , and we're waiting for Rock Band , Mass Effect , all before Christmas...
Posted: Nov 07 2007, 03:56 PM by Bertrand Le Roy | with 4 comment(s)
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Plastic X-plorer paint job
The guitar Harmonix chose for the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II is not exactly my favorite guitar . The Gibson X-plorer just reminds me too much of german hard - rockers from the eighties ... and mullets . Harmonix' plastic rendition of the guitar...
Posted: Sep 09 2007, 10:30 PM by Bertrand Le Roy | with 7 comment(s)
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Is Bioshock perfect game design?
Yes. This being out of the way, let me explain why (just in case you haven't read one of the million reviews that already say so). Some time ago, I wrote a blog post with my good friend Fabien Royer about what we consider to be the seven deadly sins of...
Seven deadly sins of game design
There are a few very obvious game design flaws that for some reason still commonly get perpetuated today. They're especially infuriating when found in otherwise good games. The only explanation I could find was artificial lifetime enhancement, which is...
The Wiimote doesn't work...
... for anything else than aiming and frantically moving up and down. In other words, slow movements aimed at the screen work well, as do fast, imprecise movements, but anything else is impractical. But let's move back a little: why am I saying that?...
What?????
I just don't understand Sony's PR strategy... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=451414&in_page_id=1770&ct=5 UPDATE: Sony explains and apologizes: http://www.joystiq.com/2007/04/30/sony-explains...
Posted: Apr 28 2007, 10:56 PM by Bertrand Le Roy | with 9 comment(s)
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Wii (insert pun of your choice here)
I've finally been able to play the Nintendo Wii, and sure, I want one. I had decided not to buy yet another version of Mario Kart and that the new controller would not yield itself to most games, that it would only work for some very specific ones...
Posted: Dec 24 2006, 12:02 AM by Bertrand Le Roy | with 7 comment(s)
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Will the Wii make you play less (and buy less games)?
Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft and have to admit I'm a big Xbox 360 fanboy so I will not be fully objective on this topic. Ever since Nintendo has annouced their new controller , I've had very big doubts about betting the console on such a concept...
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