By John Teti
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Sawbuck Gamer
Immersion Learning
Me And The Key 3 teaches you how to swim by throwing you in the deep end.
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World Wide Web Hyperlink
A Japanese PlayStation Vita ad promises better living through apparent penguin murder
Since its launch, the Vita has often given the impression that it’s doomed to suffer the same slide into irrelevance that befell its predecessor, the PSP. But after filling out its library with an influx of cool indie games and a bunch of “Cross-Buy” titles—games like Guacamelee! (emphasis original) that give you both a Vita […]
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World Wide Web Hyperlink
Microsoft takes us back to the multimedia era with a browser version of the Windows 95 pack-in game Hover!
Here’s what you’ve got to understand about working with computers in 1995: All we wanted was “multimedia.” Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that all we were supposed to want was “multimedia.” Every television commercial, tech magazine columnist, and Compaq PC brochure told us that the new capabilities of multimedia functionality paradigms […]
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Pete Strackmeier
Pete Strackmeier’s Living-Room Video-Game University: Get In “Touch” With Your Wii U
Nintendo’s new device is here to help.
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Inventory
Star turns: 14 bad guys who got their own games
From heel to hero.
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World Wide Web Hyperlink
Our own Anthony John Agnello went on the radio to talk about Rock Band
Perhaps you just finished watching our Grand Theft Auto V Review Check-In and you found yourself with a hankering for even more Anthony John Agnello. We aim to please, so here’s a segment from last night’s episode of Soundcheck—a show about music from New York’s leading public radio station, WNYC—that featured Anthony as a guest. […]
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Review Check-In
Anthony John Agnello answers your questions about Grand Theft Auto V
Earlier this week, we asked you to pose some questions about Grand Theft Auto V to Gameological critic Anthony John Agnello. Anthony’s review will be up this coming Monday, but in the meantime, he took a few minutes to answer your queries regarding heist missions, tennis, and more. Now we invite you to gaze upon […]
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Sawbuck Gamer
Almost Human
The robots in BNKR are pleasingly dumb, but the game could stand to be smarter.
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News Item
Hiroshi Yamauchi, the executive who turned Nintendo into a video game giant, dies at 85
Hiroshi Yamauchi, a person without whom you would never have heard of Nintendo, has died at 85. Many of us think of Mario and Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto as a Nintendo old-timer, but Yamauchi assumed the presidency of Nintendo in 1949, three years before Miyamoto was born. The humble company he took over in postwar […]
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The Digest
Games Of August 2013: Papers, Please
A Soviet bloc laff riot!
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The Digest
Games Of August 2013: Gone Home
This empty nest is not what it seems.
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The Digest
Games Of August 2013: Saints Row IV
Making sense of nonsense.
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For Our Consideration
The Measure Of A Mega Man
Video game characters deserve more respect than they’re getting from Keiji Inafune’s Mighty No. 9 campaign.