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Mario Tennis Open

Posted on 18th May 2012 in Giant Bomb Quick Look

Playing against AI opponents is nothing new, but how often have you played tennis against another GAME?

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Game Of Thrones

Posted on 18th May 2012 in Giant Bomb Quick Look

Vinny and Drew take the black to defend against the wildling horde and their barbaric save system.

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Battleship

Posted on 17th May 2012 in Giant Bomb Quick Look

This movie tie-in somehow manages to shake Ryan and Patrick to the very core of their beings.

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Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode II

Posted on 17th May 2012 in Giant Bomb Quick Look

Look, Tails. I know you're upset that Sonic gets all the attention, but that's no reason to drown the guy.

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Echo Screen Live #8 (5/16/12) - Part 2/2

Posted on 17th May 2012 in Clan of the Gray Wolf

We go live on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of every month at 9PM Eastern Time! Join us at http://www.clanofthegraywolf.com This episode's topic: "Video Game Narratives: Has the Story Changed?"

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Echo Screen Live #8 (5/16/12) - Part 1/2

Posted on 17th May 2012 in Clan of the Gray Wolf

We go live on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of every month at 9PM Eastern Time! Join us at http://www.clanofthegraywolf.com This episode's topic: "Video Game Narratives: Has the Story Changed?"

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Risen 2: Dark Waters

Posted on 16th May 2012 in Zero Punctuation

This week, Zero Punctuation review Risen 2: Dark Waters.

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Akai Katana Shin

Posted on 15th May 2012 in Giant Bomb Quick Look

Brad and Vinny take to the 2D skies, fighting hellacious bullets, unrequited love, and interdimensional trains.

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A Valley Without Wind

Posted on 15th May 2012 in Giant Bomb Quick Look

Brad and Vinny find an elongated depression between uplands devoid of both wind and reason.

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Max Payne 3

Posted on 14th May 2012 in Giant Bomb Quick Look

Ryan and Jeff spend some quality time with everyone's favorite pilled-up alcoholic bullet-time enthusiast.

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PAX East 2012: The Man Behind Dust: An Elysian Tail

Posted on 11th May 2012 in Giant Bomb Quick Look

How does someone with no prior programming experience make an Xbox game all by themselves?

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Portal 2: Perpetual Testing Initiative

Posted on 11th May 2012 in Giant Bomb Quick Look

Ryan and Patrick enter a chamber way scarier than anything GLaDOS ever cooked up: their own.

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Datura

Posted on 10th May 2012 in Giant Bomb Quick Look

Giant Hand makes his way onto the PS3, but is it the game you were expecting?

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Starhawk

Posted on 10th May 2012 in Giant Bomb Quick Look

Jeff and Brad grab their spurs and six-guns and hop in their morphing robot jet to take back the Space West.

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Project Powder (Episode 21)

Posted on 10th May 2012 in MMO Grinder

It's slightly less tricky! SSX meets Mario Kart in this free-to-play online Snowboarding MMO. Chaos hits the slopes to see if this developer abandoned game is still worth a run.

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Prototype 2

Posted on 9th May 2012 in Zero Punctuation

This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Prototype 2.