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(2008-08-31 23:36:00)

Spore Updated Impressions: An Evolving Interest

Maybe it's because I preferred astronomy class over biology. Maybe it's because the creature creator has been done to death already. Maybe it's because I just want to screw around with lasers more than larvae.

Whatever the reason, I'm finding that I enjoy the later levels of Spore far more than the early organic stages.

I imagine some people are going to load up Spore and be immediately underwhelmed by the basic nature of the gameplay. Outside of the fun of evolving your race, the initial stages are incredibly straightforward.

In the cell phase, you simply steer your microscopic monster around until it collides with food. You avoid being eaten by othe...

(2008-08-31 20:02:00)

PAX 08: An Exciting Omegathon Reveal

With last year's PAX Omegathon tournament ending in the first reveal of Halo 3's multiplayer, this year's final round was highly anticipated.

"So last year we picked a blockbuster, really," said Tycho to the crowd following a montage of tournament highlights. "This year.. another big blockbuster--from 1987."

The screen went dark, then lit up to a Famicon screen. The game?

Versus Excite Bike, a head-to-head version of the racing classic never released in North America.

As the 8-bit bikers raced on screen, Gabe and Tycho provided color commentary, the crowd oohing and ahhing with each crash.

In the end, the red biker triumphed--Joey Gecko, who won a trip to the Tokyo Game Show and $5,000. The runner-up,...

(2008-08-31 11:21:00)

C&C: Red Alert Free Download Available

As had been expected, Electronic Arts has released the original Command & Conquer: Red Alert for free to celebrate the release of the original Command & Conquer 13 years ago.

At FileShack you can find the ISOs for the Allied and Soviet discs. Both are about 500mb downloads.

Red Alert can be installed under Windows XP, 98, 95 and ME. Vista is not officially supported, though it should be able to run on that OS as well.

(2008-08-31 11:21:00)

C&C: Red Alert Available As A Free Download

(2008-08-31 03:16:00)

Left 4 Dead Interview: Valve's Chet Faliszek on the Xbox 360 Version and the Evil Allure of All-talk

After greedily hogging a Left 4 Dead (PC, 360) demo station for what seemed like hours today at PAX, I had the chance to pull Valve's Chet Faliszek aside and get his comment on a number of topics related to the upcoming co-op zombie shooter.

How different is the Xbox 360 version? Will the game have an all-talk chat option? What's that about a flamethrower? Read on for Faliszek's answers.

On the differences between the Xbox 360 and PC versions:

"I know someone on Shack or Left4Dead411, someone was like, 'Oh you can see they slowed it down on the 360.' Did it seem slower to you? Yeah. We didn't slow it down at all for the 360. Our tech guys, our really...