Electronic Gaming Monthly articles from October 2008

Electronic Gaming Monthly archives from October 2008

Show off?
October 1, 2008... The halls of the Los Angeles Convention Center--site of the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo game-biz trade show--echoed strangely this July. In place of the pounding music, bright lights, and wall-to-wall people of past shows...

FAR-OUT FANS.
October 1, 2008... Play videogames enough, and they might consume your life. Paint well enough, and they might consume your bedroom, too--that's the case with Aussie visual artist Antoinette Citizen. Inspired by a pixelized plumber, Citizen re-created World 1-1...

FINAL FANTASY FEST: NOMURA'S HEROES.
October 1, 2008... At Microsoft's E3 2008 press conference, Square Enix President Yoichi Wada shocked attendees by revealing that previously PlayStation 3-exclusive Final Fantasy XIII would also be heading to Xbox 360 in North America and Europe. While this was...

The game of lives.(Interview)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... Outspoken developer Denis Dyack is brave. Even though his epic Xbox 360 action-role-playing game Too Human (reviewed on page 88) has endured many development demons, the man valiantly defends it like the brave Silicon Knight he is. So when we...

FAMILY GUY.(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... Since stepping out of the purely "hardcore" (an archaic tag that's losing its meaning) world a year ago and working with people that could be best described as more "casual" consumers, I've seen and learned a lot. It's been an eye-opening...

Sid's Revolution.
October 1, 2008... For many hardcore PC gamers, the coming of Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution was something discussed as if it would be accompanied by a plague of frogs. The granddaddy of all PC game developers making a console game? Apocalypse confirmed!...

Legends of the fall.
October 1, 2008... We're not trumpeting the phrase "Legends of the Fall" because it's a fine film starring both the dazed stoner from True Romance and the mead-loving King Hrothgar from Beowulf. No. Rather than just writing goofy-yet-useful blurbs about the 700...

Fight or Flight.
October 1, 2008... The police come barreling out of a door on the far end of a pristine rooftop, forcing you to run toward the opposite end, where death stares at you from the concrete 40 stories below. You take cover behind some air ducts to hide from the...

TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 09.
October 1, 2008... PS3/XB360 Publisher: EA Sports Developer: EA Tiburon Players: 1-4 ESRB: Everyone wJOE: Though I'm a big fan of the Tiger Woods series, I wasn't thrilled with last year's edition. While the game packed in lots of new features, the...

Snuggly Buddy Pals.
October 1, 2008... The Game Boy Advance is being slowly trampled to death under a stampede of beasts, and I'm not talking about That's So Raven. I'm talking about the onslaught of pet games happening right in your nearest videogame store. If you do your game...

A dragon quest draws near!
October 1, 2008... Before they became stepbrothers (Brady Bunch--style, in the merger that created Square Enix), Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest were the bitterest of rivals. The hard feelings have cooled in recent years, but a fundamental philosophical divide...

BLU-RAY BUNGALOW.
October 1, 2008... Appleseed: Ex MachinaPublisher: Warner Bros.Details: The much-ballyhooed sequel to 2004's Appleseed movie is a merging of director Shinji Aramaki and producer (and in his spare time, director) John Woo's considerable talents. Reading the...

NEXT MONTH.
October 1, 2008... Resident Evil 5 Aim for the head! And the body. And, hell, the legs, too--next month we're shooting down the door of evil for an exclusive blowout of the PS3/XB360 survival-horror shooter Resident Evil 5. Co-op is the big feature this...

Badass Undead.(video games)
October 1, 2008... 10 Half-Life series (PC): Headcrab zombie What's worse than being a zombie? Not much. Unless you're a zombie with a giant gonad stuck to your head. It's even better when you're still conscious and your screams for help are muffled by...