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| Total Unique Visitors: 232350 |
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| An Ode to Street Fighter IV |
| 2008-08-21 09:32:00 |
A few days ago, I discovered that a Street Fighter IV machine had been spotted in Australia. It just so happened that this machine was only a 10 minute walk away from my work. So I trudged down to Melbourne’s Crown Casino last night to get my hands on the most hyped fighting game ever. This is what happened:As I descended into the dark, cavernous cave that is the Casino’s arcade, I immediately spotted the glow of the Street Fighter IV machine. It wasn’t hard - the game had attracted a large crowd of typical nerdy types. Most of them were male, most had bad haircuts, and a horrific smell of B.O. permeated the air like a high school gym.At first I watched the game from the edge of the crowd, just to familiarise...
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| MadWorld for the Wii: Here Comes Controversy |
| 2008-08-15 20:29:00 |
The upcoming Sega beat 'em up, MadWorld, is already generating plenty of controversy. It's still at least six months away from an official release, but Britain's Daily Mail has already started drumming up public hysteria over the game's "unsavoury" themes.MadWorld is a third-person beat 'em up for the Wii. It's also, possibly, one of those most violent games ever created. In fact, it's so violent that the Japanese developer, Platinum Games, openly admits that it doesn't think the game will get a release in Japan. Instead, they're aiming for the Western market - with its higher appreciation for games with blood, guts and gore.Not much is known about the game apart from a couple of trailers, which shows some pretty ridiculous and horrifying images. For ...
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| Battle of the fighting game geriatrics |
| 2008-06-23 00:34:00 |
Fighting games are full of clichés when it comes to their characters. Every fighting game features a spiky-haired Japanese guy wearing a headband (Ryu, Akira). There is always a busty, scantily clad girl, who breathes a little too heavily and fights with a fan (Kitana, Mai). And then there’s my personal favourite cliché: the old, geriatric kung fu master.Every fighting game has one. He’s the guy with grey hair, bad posture, comical facial expressions, and, if it’s a Japanese game, a questionable fixation for female high school students. He’ll normally fight with a cane, or a staff, or at least with a stick. And he usually will have taught or fathered about half the other characters in the game.The “old guy” really is an essential component for any fighting game. But who is th...
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| MMORPG Outrage: Age of Conan gives players a breast reduction |
| 2008-06-02 07:19:00 |
Sordid sex stories are the bread and butter of entertainment journalism. It’s what celebrity tabloids thrive on.In videogames, however, sex controversies don’t seem to pop up that much. Aside from your occasional hot coffee debate, there really isn’t much going on out there. It's assumed most game players don’t have girlfriends (if they did, why would they be up all night questioning the sexuality of “newbie” players in Counterstrike?) and so the topic is rarely written about...Until now. Killscreen Poetry, being the sordid publication that it is, has decided to lift the lid on what is possibly the biggest sex controversy to ever hit the MMORPG world.According to gamers on this forum, the developers of Age of Conan, an online MMORPG, recently ...
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| Why Street Fighter One sucks |
| 2008-05-27 02:27:00 |
With all the hype surrounding the upcoming release of Street Fighter 4, I thought it might be a good idea to look back on how the series began... and how god-awful it was to begin with.Most people are aware of the meteoric success of Street Fighter 2. Released in 1991, it was an instant arcade smash, and went on to spawn countless sequels - most of which included the indistinguishable words "hyper", "turbo" and "super" in their titles.But the Street Fighter brand wasn't always such a mega-success. The original Street Fighter, released back in 1987 was... well, it sucked. It sucked big time. Indeed, it sucked even more than Balrog sucked as a playable character in Street Fighter 2: Championship Edition.This might co...
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| Zhengtu Online: Video Game or Chinese Casino? |
| 2008-05-16 23:42:00 |
The other day I stumbled upon a news item reporting that a Chinese MMORPG, Zhengtu Online, had become the first game in the world to have more than two million players logged on at the same time. Two million people.The number of Chinese with internet access stands at only about 220 million. This means almost one per cent of people who can use the internet were logged onto Zhengtu Online at exactly the same time. That's insane.What's even more insane is that the developer of Zhengtu Online, Giant Interactive, is now one of the richest IT companies in China. Giant founder, Shi Yuzhu, is the 24th richest man in China. And Zhengtu Online, or ZT Online for short, is Giant's only game.So what's going on? Why is ZT Online getting so much attention? It wasn't un...
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| The Gayest Video Game Ever |
| 2008-05-12 03:40:00 |
It's a dark evening in inner-city New York. The alleyways are full of trash and graffiti. Criminals are lurking everywhere – junkies, gangsters, even murderers.You take a wrong turn down a shadowy alleyway, and soon find yourself surrounded by a gang of thugs. They don't say anything, they just set upon you.It's a frightening scenario, and sets the scene for just about every side-scrolling beat 'em up released in the early 1990s (think Final Fight, Double Dragon, Streets of Rage). In fact, the market was so flooded by these cliched fighters by 1991, it was difficult to tell them apart.But Sega came up with an originnal concept for the genre. They decided their own New York-style beat 'em up, Riot City, would keep some of the cliches (dirty subways, knife-wielding thugs, etc.), but would ...
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| Portal Exposed |
| 2008-05-07 07:13:00 |
Portal was considered one of the videogames of 2007. Reviewers and gamers alike just couldn't get enough of Valve Software's strange take on the FPS genre. Many reviewers called it the most original game of the year. Some said it was the most original game of the decade.But Killscreen Poetry is here to tell you otherwise: Portal is a massive rip-off. And not just any old rip-off either. We're talking Thailand-scale copyright infringement here.Let me explain. The game involves a very basic idea. You have a gun. It fires two types of portals. One is blue and the other is orange. You walk through one of these portals and come out the other, like so:An "original" idea? Never been done before? Well, prepare to be shocked.After scouring the history of videogames...
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