This has been a ridiculous year. On the movie front we’ve already had Inception, Toy Story 3, Scott Pilgrim, and tons of other great films. On the music side of things we’ve had a proper release of Dark Night of the Soul and a new album from Eminem that is blowing everybody away. And, in [...]
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Alex’s Top 5 Games To Be Adapted Into Something Else
July 14th, 2010
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Remember a few weeks ago when we revisited the idea of adapting different properties into a video game by giving you the list of what we want to see adapted? Well, we’re revisiting that again. Kind of. Only this time we’re going to scratch that and reverse it. For this round, we’re looking at the [...]
Pixel Picks-ModNation Racers: Compare and Contrast
July 7th, 2010
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Think of your favorite genre. Now, think of the best game in that genre. You may have some trouble defining the absolute best. Often, there are a few games at the top of their respective genre that are each great for their own reason. Sure, Mario is the king of platformers, but some people like [...]
Alex’s Top 5 Properties That Should Be Games
June 30th, 2010
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If you look at the video game section of your local electronics retailer, it is undoubtedly littered with games that are based on popular movies. Iron Man 2, Toy Story 3, How to Train Your Dragon, and countless others sit there on the shelves, mocking your intelligence. Because we had so much fun talking about [...]
MotionPlus Support in Conduit 2
June 10th, 2010
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When Sega and High Voltage release The Conduit 2 this fall, MotionPlus owners will be able to take advantage of the peripheral. With improvements to “edge tracking and transitions to pointer control,” according to Sega, the MotionPlus looks like it will give players a little bit better of an experience. Of course, if you don’t [...]
Dreamcast Games Return to XBLA and PSN
June 10th, 2010
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Crazy Taxi and Sonic Adventures will be the first of hopefully many Dreamcast games to see new life this on XBLA and PSN. Sega announced that they would roll out these two games this fall with improved resolution, surround sound, and features we have come to love such as leaderboards, Trophies, and Achievements. Let us [...]
Possible Mass Effect Movie in the Works
June 10th, 2010
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According to the Hollywood Reporter, production company Legendary Pictures has picked up the rights to Mass Effect. Legendary is responsible for the latest Batman reboot and the recent Watchmen movie. The film is set to be produced by Avi and Ari Arad and written by Mark Protosevich, who worked on I Am Legend. Rights to [...]
USA Today Reveals Rock Band 3 Keyboard
June 10th, 2010
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USA Today gave us some details on the newest Rock Band instrument. I’m sad to report that it isn’t a keytar, but rather a 25-key keyboard. A partial set-list was also revealed. I’m sure we’ll get even more news next week at E3, including more of the songs that will be on the disc. Thanks [...]
Alex’s Pre3 Predictions
June 9th, 2010
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Can you smell that? That’s right, it’s the smell of E3 in the air. Nothing gets a gamer’s jiggly-bits going like E3, and we here at Pixelosophy just can’t wait to get in on the excitement. With E3 next week, we decided to let you know what we want to see, don’t want to see, [...]
DJ Hero 2 Coming This Fall
June 8th, 2010
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If you listen really closely you can hear Fish squealing with excitement. His wish of a DJ Hero sequel will finally be granted when Activision releases DJ Hero 2 this fall. According to Joystiq, the game will be able to use, no joke, two turntables and a microphone. There will also be DJ battles with [...]