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With the ungodly amount of first-person shooters on the market these days, chances are high you’ve played at least one during this generation of games. For the most part, the shooter genre is not widely regarded as having the most emotionally-driven stories in gaming (no one cares about your wife,Dom), and Gamasutra has aninteresting theoryas to why that is. Arecent studyused biometric feedback to measure player responses to the initial 90 minutes of big-name action titles such asGears of War, Resistance, andHalo 3....

I was lucky to talk a lot of great developers at E3 this year, but only one of them was kind enough to rub his dreadlocks on me. That was Konami’s Tak Fuji, the man best known for talking about one million troops at last year’s Konami press conference. We got to catch up about his work on No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise, the PS3 port of the Wii cult classic....

We’ve talked a lot aboutCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2on this glorious day. First, we hit you with aTen Minute Taste, featuring as always, the first ten minutes of the game — all the loads, all the scenes, and all the sweet tutorial action. A little bit later on we showed you thenow-infamous “No Russian” level, which turned a few heads when it was leaked weeks prior to the game’s release....

August is over, and PAX is almost upon us. As August ends, so too does this month’s Musing — Teh Bias. Again, we got a lot of great submissions, and even though not all of them were able to make the front page, I encourage you to go through the archives and read what you missed. You can find all of August’s Monthly Musing blogs below. (If I accidentally forgot one, which is always possible, please let me know in the comments and I’ll add it....

By “Tempura,” I am of course referring to easily one of the best Xbox LIVE Indie games available today,Tempura of the Dead. Yep, 8bits Fanatics is back with another game for the independent channel, and this one is looking to be another quality throwback title. It’s a platformer calledAban Hawkins & the 1000 Spikes, which will be due out sometime this month for one dollar. These dudes really like to go all out with their names, huh?...

Look, I likeTetris. I’m not any good at it, but I like it. I just don’t get why you’d download it on a mobile phone. It’s already difficult for me. Putting it on a device with little (or sometimes no) buttons only makes it more difficult. I guess that’s just me, though. Tetris has been purchased as a mobile game 100 million times…since 2005. That’s insane. That makes it the best selling mobile game of all time....

Yesterday at TGS, I met my ex-colleagues from Kotaku for the first time. Michael “Beardo” McWhertor! Brian “LOL” Ashcraft! Flynn “Fruit Brute” DeMarco! And some pallid kid with a gobbling thorax who looked exactly like a young Carrot Top. Collapsed in a heap in the corner of the press area at the Tokyo Game Show, rivulets of dirty sweat streaking down their brows as they feverishly pounded their words, impressions and LOLs into the keyboard....

One of the most pleasant surprises of TGS thus far has beenQuantum Theory, a new third-person shooter from Koei Tecmo. At first glance, the game may remind you ofGears of War, but scratch the surface a bit, and you’ll see something much more bizarre and exciting. For instance, the game isn’t just calledQuantum Theorybecause it sounds fun. The game’s name actually has some meaning. It’s pretty brainy sht, which nicely offsets the manly-as-fck gameplay....

Another day, another contest. I’m starting to lose count of how many contests we have going on. And there’s still more to come down the line!Civilizationfans, watch this video where Colette Bennett talks about some of the awesome prizes we are giving away for ourCivilization: Revolutioncontest. Submit all entries on theoriginal contest post. Jim hates onPokémonagain,Mega Man 9looks like a NES game, free map DLC coming toHalo 3,Sadnessis still coming, and much more happened at Dtoid today....

Thank goodness for YouTube videos, otherwise I’d be missing out on all of the potential hilarity there is to be had inJust Cause 2. Grappling one plane to another? Never would have thought to try that. As expected, the end result is magnificent. Props to Joseph for sending this my way are in serious order. Speaking of Joseph, after weeks of tacklingRisen, he finally managed to give us a review; thankfully, the process left him relatively unharmed....

Hopefully you all have been playingSuper Mario Galaxythis week and enjoying the hell out of it as much as I have. I am going to hold my fanboy exclamations for another time, but … oh, who am I kidding? I LOVE THIS GAME! IT IS AMAZING! AHHHHHHHHH! There, now I feel better. To celebrate the release of thisinstant Wii classic, this week’s Great Retro Quiz is all about the game that started it all:Super Mario Bros....

Roughly 90% ofCream Wolf‘s charm comes from discovering what the game is actually about, so I’ll leave you to it. For the sake of making this news post more than a single sentence, though, I’ll point out that it was made byPixelJamandmesshof. Those guys are good at making games.

he Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Let me know if this scenario sounds familiar: You are playing a videogame and reach a section that is absolutely beautiful to look at. Instead of playing through quickly, you take your time, even moving your character at a snail’s pace just to take in all of the game’s gorgeous visuals. To take things even further, you start spinning the camera around your main character in focused, choreographed patterns....