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Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People 4: Dangeresque 3
Price: $8.95 (PC), 1000 Wii Points
System(s): *PC, WiiWare
Release Date: November, 17, 2008
Publisher (Developer): Telltale Games
ESRB Rating: “Everyone +10” for comic violence
Pros: You get to be a movie star! You can play as Dangeresque, Strong Bad’s action star alter ego. Plus you get to see what horrible actors the characters of Strong Bad are.
Cons: Not enough action. I wanted to blow stuff up but it just didn’t happen.
Overall Score:Two thumbs up; 98/100; A; * * * * 1/2 out of five.

This episode is the best in the series so far. Even if you didn’t like any of the other Strong Bad games, you will like this one…

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Have you tried to play a computer game, while your brother is trying to download some music and the system is running the weekly virus update? It’s not an easy task. In fact, it’s usually a very frustrating task.

Symantec knows just how you feel, which is why the company is releasing Norton AntiVirus 2009 Gaming Edition. It will be designed specifically for gaming, which we all know takes up the most memory on the system. It keeps malware at bay while also making sure nothing is interrupted or lost during your MMO game play…

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Sam and Max: Season One: Sam and Max: Season One
Price: $29.95
System(s): Wii
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Publisher (Developer): Telltale Games (Adventure Company)
ESRB Rating: “Teen” for Cartoon Violence, and Mild Language
Pros: Very funny, entertaining story lines, six games in one.
Cons: No mini-games, very dialog heavy and no tutorial for car chase scenes.
Overall Score: Two thumbs up; 97/100;  A;  * * * * 1/2 out of five.

Telltale’s Sam and Max: Season One for the Wii is finally out and ready to be

vandalized

played. Though originally an episodic adventure game available for download only for the PC (like most of Telltale’s games), this great six-episode set is now out for the Wii, revamped and ready to go…

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I’m sick and tired of people saying that video games are a waste of time and that people are unintelligent for playing them. It’s just not true. The only people who say that are people who have never played a game and don’t realize what really goes into it. I think games are very much educational and should not be shunned.

First, playing video games involves a lot of thought and strategy. Each game has a completely different set of rules that you have to learn and follow. Now you can either sit and read the instruction booklet or you could…

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Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People: Baddest of the Bands: Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People: Baddest of the Bands
Price: $8.95 (PC), 1000 WiiWare points
System(s): *PC and Wiiware
Release Date: October, 27, 2008
Publisher (Developer): Telltale Games
ESRB Rating: “Everyone 10+“ for crude humor and comic mischief
Pros: Hilarious, fun gameplay, great way to waste a few hours.
Cons: No mini-games, extra items are hard to find
Overall Score: Two thumbs up; 94/100; A-; * * * * 1/2 out of five.

Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 3, Baddest of the Bands is now out for the PC and Wii. As always, it involves Strong Bad destroying the lives of everyone around him for his own benefit.

In this episode, Strong Bad’s video game system, aka “the fun machine,” breaks down. Oh nos! So he brings it to Bubs to get fixed. Bubs tells him that it will cost a ton of money, which of course SB doesn’t have. So the only logical way he sees to raise the money is to hold a “baddest of the bands” concert…

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E3 should not be open to the public. It is a convention for people in the gaming industry. Period.

Though it would be nice to let anyone go to this convention, if they allow that to happen then E3 will basically end up becoming the next Comic-Con which means thousands and thousands of people, crowded around an already cramped convention center (many carrying pointy sticks, mind you).

People go to E3 to have intelligent conversations with…

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There is nothing better than sharing (aka showing off) our gaming experiences with the world. Sites like YouTube and PoeTV can be very cluttered and, when you’re searching for a video on how to proceed in a level, you end up with dozens of videos of some guys cockatiel who whistles the entire theme song to Mario Bros. Pwn or Die is a website dedicated to just gaming and gaming videos. Not so much birds…

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The two biggest stereotypes when it comes to gamers are a) that they are kids and b) they are males. A recent study put out by, IBISWorld, Inc. (one of the nation’s most respected independent publishers of business intelligence research), indicates that the complete opposite it true.

Results of the study suggest that most of the current gamers are older adults and may of those are - you guessed it - women.

According to the study, the average purchaser of games in the U.S. is 39, which means these adults started playing video games when they were teenagers and haven’t stopped. As if that’s not enough,  24% of current gamers today are…

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Everyone is looking for a new career, the main question is, which one is right for me?

Well, if you are a gamer, this can be especially difficult. How can I get a job when my necromancer is only level 12, and hasn’t even learned undead protection yet?

Not to worry. I have created this little guide for you of the best and worst career choices for gamers…

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Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People: Strongbadia the Free: Telltale Games
Price: $8.95 PC, $10 Wii (WiiWare)
System(s): *PC, Wii
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Publisher (Developer): Telltale Games
ESRB Rating: E+10 “Everyone 10+“ for crude humor and comic mischief.
Pros: Very funny, fun game play, logical puzzles.
Cons: Not enough mini games, insane rating system,  short game play
Overall Score: Two thumbs up; 95/100; A; * * * * 1/2 out of five

It’s time for the second installment of Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People: Strongbadia the Free. In this game you play as Strong Bad who was put under house arrest after the King of Town went power crazy an invented several new tax laws that Strong Bad has yet to pay.

Click through for the full review…

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