Well, today is the long awaited “Big Game” for football fans as the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints meet in Miami for Super Bowl 44. Although the Colts are 4 point favourites, according to EA Sports Madden 10, it looks as though the Saints will squeak out a 35-31 victory…and end their fairytale season with their first Bowl win in their 40+ year history of the franchise.

Though it’ll definitely be great for the Saints to shake off the “Aints” moniker if they win, I think that the Colts are way too good and Peyton Manning is playing some of his best football in his Hall of Fame career. One thing is for certain though, it should be a high scoring affair and hopefully it’ll be a close one!

-Stephen

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With the success of FPS games like Modern Warfare 2 and Left 4 Dead 2, console gamers are looking for the ultimate FPS experience where they can have larger environments and more players online simultaneously…enter MAG. Massive Action Game (or “MAG” for short), the game allows up to a whopping 256 players online simultaneously in a single battle. With those kind of numbers, you’ll definitely need to have leaders to help co-ordinate the combatants or it becomes utterly chaotic.

I’m not really one to play FPSes, but I can see how playing online with all these people can be pretty fun and exciting. I suppose this is how WoW players feel when they have massive clans battles? Anyhow, MAG definitely opens the door for huge online FPS campaigns and with it’s success, you can bet on more developers delivering something similar in the future.

-Stephen

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I remember as a kid always wanting to be a comic book superhero and do good for mankind. I guess with the recent popularity of comic based movies, I think it’s only fitting to create an action/comedy where regular people try to be superheroes. I can definitely see how someone can gain popularity through Youtube viral videos and people wanting to emulate their idols. I’d imagine if people were to become ACTUAL superheroes, it would also spawn supervillains..and that wouldn’t be too good right? =)

-Stephen

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Well, with still a whole slew of games I haven’t had the time to play, I was hoping that I would finally get to them, but there always seems to be another game I REALLY want to play…and one example is the game above. White Knight Chronicles definitely looks like an interesting RPG…with great graphics and exciting real-time battles, it’ll definitely tide me over till the English release of SE’s Final Fantasy XIII. Perhaps I should stack all my vacation days together and plow through my backup of games yet-to-be-played!

-Stephen

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So the Superbowl is just around the corner and with the big game, comes huge sponsors and advertisements. Among the ads is one from EA Games, which is promoting their upcoming game, Dante’s Inferno. Now the video you see above, was actually rejected by CBS because of the end tagline, “Go To Hell”. So in order to appease the network and censors, EA has revised their ad and have changed the tagline to “Hell Awaits”:

Which do you prefer?

-Stephen

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