Lawyers that Game: Dianne Bonfiglio, Esq., aka, Hot Chief PMS

This interview is the first of a planned series of interviews of professionals — lawyers naturally among them — that are avid, earnest, unabashed gamers. I conducted this interview back in September, but a number of issues kept it from appearing on A.O. Without further ado, here’s my interview with a remarkable attorney [...]

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Bioshock non-spoiler review (Verdict: Great game – buy it used)

“Why should the righteous suffer at the hands of the ignorant?” Because society usually ends up freaky-deeky, that’s why. Thus speaks the lessons of Bioshock.

Bioshock is a first-person shooter game with a great story. No, make that fantastic story. But ultimately with all stories, it ends, and you end up with little replay [...]

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The HD Molehill/Spitwad battle; and, Paramount and DreamWorks choose HD-DVD

Viacom Inc’s Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation SKG–including, inter alia, Paramount Vantage, Nickelodeon Movies, and MTV Films–announced today (Monday Aug 20th 07) that they will release their next-gen DVD titles exclusively on HD-DVD, dropping the Blu-Ray format. Want to watch Transformers, Shrek the Third, and Blades of Glory? Gotta do it in [...]

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Game Review: The Bigs (thumbs up)

I happen to concur with Homer Simpson’s attitude on baseball. When he abstained from alcohol for a week, he showed up to the ballpark (sober) and exclaimed, “I never realized how boring this game is!”
2K Sports answers these critics with The Bigs. The game interjects excitement into America’s pastime with two [...]

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BioShock demo now on XBL

The BioShock demo popped up on XBL today, August 12th. It’s had some very positive reviews by those who’ve seen the pre-release product, so many of us are holding out high hopes. It’s, in short, a sci-fi game set in an underwater, Ayn Rand-inspired Utopia called “Rapture,” which is riven by civil war [...]

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Confirmed: Xbox 360 Price Drop / Rumor: HDMI to all SKUs?

Xbox’s Major Nelson confirmed Monday that there will be price drops come August 8th–the 360 “Premium,” as we’ve known it (20 gig) will drop $50 to $349. The Core (without hard drive) will drop $20 to $279, and the Elite will drop $30 to $449.
Official MS Press Release HERE.
Also, ArsTechnica reports that a “source” [...]

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Halo 3: 4-Player Online Co-op (CONFIRMED)

Sweetness and light.
That’s how I respond to Bungie’s press release today.

The 4 online-playable co-op characters.
All the hubbub about whether or not Bungie would have online co-op at all was wasted energy–online co-op was never in question. Bungie today released that it was, in fact, whether 4-player online co-op would work out was the only [...]

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CONFIRMED: XBLA Marathon 1 Aug 07

Xbox Live’s Major Nelson spilled the beans today. Marathon: Durandal is confirmed as one of the two XBLA games this Wednesday, 1 Aug 07, at 800 points ($10). The other game is Spyglass Board Games (400 points) which includes Chess, Checkers, Mancala, and Reversi, online and webcam enabled. The clear winner between [...]

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“MasterChief Went Into Seclusion . . . Drinking Heavily”

That’s a direct quote from the above movie. Check out this EXCLUSIVE and very funny interview with MasterChief.
HL

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UPDATE: $50 Xbox 360 price cut details emerging

Yesterday (the 24th of July), AO updated the 1 August $100 price cut rumor with news from XboxScene, which vaguely commented that the 360 would see a price cut of $50. No further details had emerged from that original rumor about a 1 August price drop, and the news from XboxScene seemed not worthy [...]

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Exactly who is buying the Wii???

2 stories were released today that seem to be a contradiction in terms. Both stories involve NPD – a market research firm. Taken together, they could indicate that Nintendo’s recent dominance will eventually evaporate.
The first is from TG Daily. They are reporting that NPD’s latest data indicates that Nintendo’s Wii outsold both Xbox 360 [...]

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An open letter to Bethesda Softworks

From: Aidyn
To: Bethesda Softworks
Re: Fallout 3 – please don’t fuck this up.

First of all, I do want to thank you for all the work that you did in the first place in keeping my love alive.
After the demise of Interplay due to bankruptcy, you bought the IP rights to make a single player game. [...]

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Gang Holds Top RPG Gamer at Gunpoint

Folha Online reports that using Orkut, Google’s online social network, an armed gang of four 19-27 year old- kidnapped the world-leading Role-Playing Gamer of the game GunBound (boy plays violent video game; others become violent; psychologists, have at it). One of the gang members’ girlfriends lured the gamer onto a fake date at a [...]

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XBLA 90’s Nostalgia Edition: Wing Commander Arena on Wednesday, 25 Jul 07

Not reported on Xbox.com presently, Xbox 360 Fanboy is reporting that EA has given confirmation: Wing Commander Arena is being released this coming Wednesday on Xbox Live Arcade for 800 points ($10). PLUS: read WCA’s Manual, already online, HERE.

More pics after the break.

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Intemperate Punditry: why (some pundits can’t see that) the Xbox 360 can’t help but lead in next-gen gaming

Politics is rife with it: witness, on opposite sides of the spectrum, Glenn Greenwald and Rush Limbaugh–blind opinion-marshalls of opposite corners of the political ring. According to Rush, the better known of the polemicists, everything “Liberal” is ripe for scorn. Rush has been around long enough that most listeners know that he’s [...]

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