Welcome to the reintegration of an arguably ancient SG feature, Review of the Reviews. In this feature, we essentially take on Metacritic at their own game, but rather than summarizing every review into a score, we use words. Words are better, right? Better than numbers? I mean, what was the last binary play you went to see versus the last literary one?

Words > Numbers. Come, read some words with me.

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Do you have a brand one of those fancy-dancy new PS3 that sometimes sounds like a jet preparing for take-off while you’re playing Uncharted 2?  If so, Talismoon just announced the thing to alleviate your problems!  (more…)

Nintendo recently reported its six-month financial results for the first half of the current fiscal year, and the Kyoto, Japan-based publisher and developer had a pretty good haul, though certainly well below company expectations. According to data obtained by Gamasutra, total profit for the period came in at a cool $772 million, a 52 percent year-over-year decrease attributed to unfavorable exchange rates, as well as lower software and hardware sales. As a result, Nintendo significantly cut profit forecasts.

On the surface, it might seem like Nintendo’s gold-plated castle is eroding. Some might even suggest that the Wii and DS maker is in a tough spot, and should start searching for the panic button. Looking at the numbers though, I don’t agree.

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UPDATE: The original IW video was pulled, but we found another feed. We had it up, but decided to pull the alternate link down ourselves.

Also we have Infinity Ward’s response, after the jump.

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Wow.  This video just dropped on twitter by http://twitter.com/fourzerotwo and htp://twitter.com/Infinityward. It’s a YouTube Video “PSA” for the Fight Against Grenade Spaming starring Phillies Pitcher Cole Hamels.

Yes. F.A.G.S.

Really, Infinity Ward?  See the video, after the jump.

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I’m not even sure what this game is. I played it for a quarter of an hour and it’s obfuscatory on an unsurpassed level.

That said, nude witches.

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What you see there is myself and a man called Charles Martinet. Charles Martinet is a voice actor. If you’ve never heard of him, that’s okay. All you have to know is that he is the voice of Mario, and this makes him one of the coolest people you could ever meet.

Look, he said “Spiderman” to Pillowfort in the Mario voice. That makes him a winner in my books.

Some more photos, and impressions of New Super Mario Bros. Wii over the jump.

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Yeah that’s what I look like, get over yourselves.

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While this story is over a week old, I let it simmer. I was hoping that someone would come back and debunk the information as PR spin, because to me, it just seems improbable.

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Just three hours into the Eurogamer Expo and things are already looking awesome with a capital-friggin-A. We’ve all just come out of a developer session with Blackrock Studios, the team behind upcoming racer Split/Second. We were treated to an exclusive look at a new track in the game and given a little behind-the-scenes tour of how the game was put together.

Read some more over the jump!

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NB: This should’ve gone up yesterday but I sorta fell asleep before I could put it up. Enjoy regardless!

Guys: STREET FIGHTER. MightyMutt’s winning.

It’s just coming up to 1am in London, and I’m sitting here with MightyMutt, Pillowfort and Krelith in MM’s humble abode having recorded our first podcast (which might hit soon, might not).

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Choochoo! Trains don’t make that sort of noise anymore. In fact, the one I’m on at the moment is practically silent. And it tilts in the corners.

Why am I on board such a marvellous contraption? If the header image and the title weren’t much of a giveaway, I’m making my way down the country to London for the Eurogamer Expo!

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If you’ve heard anything about From Software’s Demon’s Souls for the PS3, you know it’s a beast of a difficult game, daring you to play it and laughing at your failures.  The realization that this game is the closest to survival horror that you’re going to get on a video game this console generation came last night.

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Haven’t you heard? Online petitions seem to carry a stigma. For the most part, the Ivory Tower gaming enthusiasts had set forth this idea that those that produce and possibly sign such petitions are nothing more than basement dwelling, Anime porn lovers that do nothing all day but sniff vending machine panties from Japan. Yes, these people exist and yes there are some crazy-ass online petitions, especially when it comes to video games.

On the other hand, most gamers are like you and me. We play games and we have a fierce devotion to how the medium works and those developers and games that do “right” by a gamer. When something comes along that breaks that trust, we freak the heck out. Our only recourse? Mobilization.  How do we mobilize? Online petitions.

The question is though, do they work?

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