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This week should be a great week when you consider the fact that it begins with Cyber Monday and it ends with me being in EA Montreal to take part in the greatest display of denim in the world.  And I also played Borderlands this weekend and found out that I must resist the urges to [...]

I hope everyone had a good day yesterday.  And I hope no one gets trampled today in the madness that is Black Friday.  I’ve never bothered with standing in lines in the early morning hours hoping to get some door buster deal or some “special” Black Friday deal.  Have you? I know Amazon is having [...]

Today is turkey day for those of us in the US and I wanted to leave a Happy Thanksgiving for you.  I’ll be with family and I’ll be eating large amounts of food.  It sucks that I have to go to work the next morning but it is what it is.  I have a lot [...]

It appears the dismantling of Pandemic Studios was far exaggerated as today they announce that an all-new game in the studio’s popular Mercenaries™ franchise is in early stages of development at EALA. ‘Mercs Inc’ (working title) is the latest entry in the action series first made popular by Mercenaries in 2005 and most recently by Mercenaries [...]

If you haven’t had your fix of Madden NFL, then prepare to have it in an all-new way as Madden NFL Arcade makes its way to XBLA today tomorrow.  The price is 1200 Microsoft Points and the reward is playing some football like we used to in the old days.  Screw the playbook, forget the [...]

Back during the Penny Arcade Expo this year, Dangerdoll and I had the chance to get some hand’s on time with Army of Two: The 40th Day in an exclusive event for nerds.  You should remember that because I told you all about it already!  But what I didn’t have at the moment was an [...]

One of the coolest and probably most memorable things about the original Army of Two had to be the hockey masks that Salem and Rios had on.  The masks made them unique and simply made them look like some bad ass guys you just didn’t want to mess with.  The original Army of Two had [...]

It appears that long ago I was indeed a psychic in another life because nearly all of the games on my 5 Sequels That Should Be Made list have come to light!  Once Bullet Witch 2 gets announced it’ll be a direct war between Miss Cleo and me.  I enjoyed the first game and may [...]

Every once and a while you come across something so freakishly awesome that you just have to stare at it for a second.  More often than not it always seems to happen when I do one of my famous Swagtastic Giveaways doesn’t it? I’ll give you all a few seconds to digest this while the awesome sauce [...]