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In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve pretty much made it my mission to make sure each and every one of you are scared senseless this Halloween. The latest game I’m sending your way isn’t exactly scary but it’s fitting for this time of year.

The Darkness was a really fun game when it was released in 2007. You can now pick it up on Amazon for a mere $5. Yep, for less than a typical value meal at your favorite fast food establishment, you can be the proud owner of The Darkness for Xbox 360.

The Darkness is based on a comic book but it’s not totally necessary to know the game’s canon to get into it. This gritty first-person game is..

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Title: Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice (Episode 1)
Price: 1,600 Microsoft Points ($19.95)
System(s): Xbox Live (PC, Mac, Linux)
Release Date: May 21, 2008
Publisher (Developer): Hothead Games (Hothead Games )
ESRB Rating: “Mature” for language and sexual humor
Pros: Signature Penny-Arcade art style and sense of humor, you can make your own Penny-Arcade style avatar and it at least tries to be more than your average arcade-style Xbox Live game.
Cons: Super small icons, poorly timed opponents, awkward controls, pace-cutting cuts and crappy camera angles. A bit too pricey.
Overall Score: One thumb sideways, one down; 63/100; D; * 1/2 out of five

The game is wrought with the limitations of an Xbox Live game (though it strives to be much more) made for an HD TV: Text is too small to read and be thoroughly soak in the humor, icons are too small to be helpful during combat, the camera angle/perspective is so wonky it’ll make you scream and the combination live-action/tune-based game play is poorly executed. The best game-related thing it has going for it is that…

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Take-Two Interactive today (July 10, 2007) released the lineup of videogames on display at E3 2007 this week for its two 2K labels, 2K Games and 2K Sports.

The biggest 2K games are first-person shooter, Bioshock, and anew Sid Meier’s latest creation, Civilization: Revolution. As for 2K Sports, NHL and All-Pro Football get updates with 2K8 releases.

2K claims Bioshock is a “generticall enhanced” game that “lets players do things never before possible in the genre…

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