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February 15, 2011
Game News - Guitar Hero is Cancelled by Activision
Seen here, it seems that from the reports from Activision is that the company has stopped all work on the Guitar Heroes series. According to the company is that due to continued declined interest in the music genre, Activision will dissolve any business relating to Guitar Hero and discontinue development on its Guitar Hero game
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February 12, 2011
First comes love…then comes marriage….then comes VIDEO GAME COUPLESSSS!!! With Valentines Day around the corner, I wanted to make a compilation of my personal favorite couples in gaming. I am generally partial to the classics, so most of my choices tend to be fairly old school, but I just think it shows the timelessness of solid video game relationships (and those lucky bugs never have to age either…rude.) Heres a top 5:
Mr. and Ms. Pac-Man (Pac-Man series)
Perhaps the oldest and most classic of all video gaming couples, I think Mr. and Ms. Pac-Man definitely deserve
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February 12, 2011
A recent study at Brigham Young University has established that video games can make girls happier and healthier as long as parents are willing to play along. The study by Sarah M. Coyne, Ph.D.,distributed questionnaires to 287 children between the ages of 11 and 16 and their parents, asking them a series of questions about video games, behaviorial, and family-related issues. The focus is to see if there is a connection between behavior of children andparental participation in gaming. And any other additionalbehavioraleffects.
When it came to measuring their outcomes against factors like positive behavior, aggression, family connection, and mental health, the results were surprising. Girls had more positive results then boys.
Research from the study discovered that girls that gamed with their parents (mainly their fathers, mothers admitted they don't game much) were better behaved, more connected
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February 12, 2011
Ladies, no longer should you sit around bored and watch your boyfriend play video games! Gentleman, no longer should you ignore your ladies and play video games! Solution? PLAY TOGETHER! Video games are a great leisure activity to enjoy together! Here are our picks for the top 5 best games for couples to play together:
1. Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies
Zombies is a great game for guys and girls to play together. You can play split-screen and it is a great game for collaboration. You need each other to get far, and it is definitely a bond building game because you need to strategize and communicate. We all know how popular Call of Duty is, and now with Black Ops having a zombie mode, it is a great game for couples to play too.
2. Geometry Wars (Evolved and 2)
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February 11, 2011
Two of the most quintessential females in gaming history (namely, Nintendos history) have only been matched up to fight each other before in games drastically affected by a gamers skill, and not their inherent character traits or abilities. So, because games like Super Smash Brothers dont truly justify who would win in some sort of fighting pageant between the two without the overwhelming differences of skill between varying gamers, I decided to measure up the two based on a variety of different factors.
Best hair: Peach
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I have to give this one to Peach, because, frankly,
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February 11, 2011
Game News - Mario on 3DS
The first Super Mairo Bros game was released by Nintendo in 1985, for over two decades the Super Maior Bro. was the best selling video game of all time. Since the release of the first game, there have been many other alternate versions. Vs. Super Mario Bros, which is in identical format with different stages and small differences and hidden items. All night Nippon Super Mario Bros, which was released in Japan and the graphic were based on Japanese radio show All-Night Nippon. Super Mario Bros. Special, a game that
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February 10, 2011
Customer Service @ Evil Controllers
While we definitely enjoy the holiday season over here at EC, this past holiday was a stressful time. We want to formally apologize to anyone that felt they did not receive stellar customer service in the months of December and January. The sales volume we were experiencing was enormous, and it became a little hard for us to keep up. We are definitely the hardest on ourselves, and it is time for us to recognize these growing pains.
As a result, we have hired several more employees so we can handle a larger number of customers. We strive to give the best service possible, and we hope that everyone has a positive experience with us!
Thank you to everyone for being patient with us,
Evil Controllers
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February 10, 2011
It seems as though it's one thing after another. Life influence games and games influence life. YouTube user MichaelCiuffo has created a real life FPS styled ammo counter.
The ammo counter keeps track of the shots you fire pretty accurately. Now whether or not that provides a distinct advantage in a real life battle situation probably hasn't been confirmed quite yet, but after being featured on Kotaku, user Michael Ciuffo has announced that he will definitely begin going into production. It might seriously become a cool add-on for those of us that like to go paint balling. Let's cross our fingers that we won't need real guns to appreciate this
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February 10, 2011
Girl Gaming Month Blog:
Ambassador Copiozo's Top Three Female Video Game CharactersOkay, so Ambassador Reyes displayed his three top three female characters in video games. I might as well throw my hat into the ring and display my top three. As an added bonus, I'm going go the extra mile and instead of using normal images from gaming, I'm going provide a cosplay picture of each of them, to spice up things a bit. Also you're gonna be a bit surprised by this list if have read my articles in the past and noticed my fanboying over Thief Rikku from FFX-2. I wanted to be fair and have a bit of variety, so one character per franchise/series. Also, if I did put her or Yuna or Paine down...you'd be reading a novel. Enjoy.
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February 09, 2011
Game News - Square-Enix to reorganize from its Financial Mistakes.
Whenever a new game in the Final Fantasy series is released, it is likely that all Square-Enix had to do was sit back and count the money from the profits coming in. But in the past years of 2009 and 2010, it seemed like that's not a reality. After the release of Final Fantasy XIII in Japan and shortly an American release in early 2010, the company saw its title as the fastest selling title ever for Square Enix, going at a record number of five million copies sold. However,in late 2010, they sent out Final Fantasy XIV, which was advertised to be a hefty MMORPG competition for World of Warcraft and a high profit maker for Square (which they put in a lot of money in its