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New Review Posted

I’ve posted a short review of “10 Minute Solution” for the Wii.  While it is value priced, I didn’t find enough content to recommend it.  Things should be much more interesting this winter with a number of exercise games coming for Microsoft’s Kinect and Sony’s Move.

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My Fitness Coach 2 Review Posted

I’ve posted my review of My Fitness Coach 2.  It another in a growing line of disappointing exercise games from Ubisoft.  With new exercise titles coming out at the end of this year for the XBox 360 and PS3, hopefully we’ll start seeing more exercise games that take the quality of their presentation and accuracy of their controls seriously.

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Sony and Nintendo at E3

Sony took their turn at E3.  While Microsoft focused on Kinect, Sony focused more on promoting their game line up.  They showed a number of games with Move support including Heavy Rain.  It looks like Sony will be able to launch their motion controller with a more varied lineup than Microsoft.  Other announcements by Sony include a premium online version of their online service and titles with 3DTV support.  More information is also available via Playstation Home.

Nintendo showed off a few expected new titles based on its core franchise such as Legend of Zelda: Skyward Word, Metroid: Other M, Donkey Kong Country Returns, and Mario Sports Mix.   Also featured were reboots of some old classics such as NBA Jam, and Golden Eye 007.  While it was nice to see a fairly solid lineup for some classic IP, it would have been nice to see something new for the console market.  With motion control looking to be on track for both Microsoft and Sony and 3rd party support lacking, Nintendo will have to depend much more heavily on its 1st party titles to do well than in the past.  Most of the interesting information at E3 from Nintendo came from the official reveal of the Nintendo 3DS.  Once again it looks like Nintendo is going to show everyone else how a portable gaming system should be designed.    More information is available on the web and via the Nintendo Channel on the Wii.

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Microsoft at E3

Today Microsoft was center stage at E3.  Microsoft announced a new slim version of the XBox 360 elite.  The official product name for Natal will be Kinect.  A whole slew of games using Kinect were featured including Dance Central, Kinectimals, Kinect Sports, Kinect Joy Ride, Kinect Adventures, Kinect: Star Wars, Your Shape Fitness Evolved, Deca Sports Freedom, Zumba Fitness and EA Sports Active 2.  There will be an ESPN 3 app for the 360 as well as video chat (VideoKinect), and Kinect integration for Zune.  Other games featured included Halo: Reach, Call of Duty Black Ops, Fable III, Kingdoms, Madden NFL 11, and Rock Band 3.  If you own a 360 you can get more details by checking out “XBOX @ E3″ in the Spotlight section.  You can see some of the Kinect games in action at the xbox.com website.

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Steam Client for Mac OS X Released

The Steam Client for Mac OS X is now available here.  When you are done installing be sure to pickup a free copy of Portal.

Thanks DailyTech

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The Biggest Loser Interactive Fitness Game Review Posted

I posted my review for this, after spending a frustrating and bug filled month with it.  A special thanks to X-Play for having no integrity during their recent mini-review of exercise games that caused me to give it a chance.

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Star Trek Online First Thoughts

I’ve had the opportunity to play Star Trek Online for the past 2 weeks.  If you’ve played other Cryptic MMOs (City of Heroes and Champions Online), you’ll recognize the basic feel of the game.

The Good: Starship missions generally play well.  Good depth (for an MMO) with energy, shield, and powerup management.  There is some decent variety to be had in mission type between exploration ad combat missions.  Many missions feel more like mini-episodes due to sequences both on and off your starship tied together into a single mission.  Because for ground missions you are always at least have our away team to help you out, you don’t have to worry (for the most apart) for being the wrong type of character for a certain ground mission.  Grouping for PVE missions is fairly painless.

The Bad: Bugs.  While Cryptic has been patching at least daily as of late, it doesn’t seem likely it will all be adequately fixed by launch.  Also, there is still quite a bit of balancing to be done.  Fleet action missions (missions designed for 20 or more players) will add a lot once they work properly, but right now are an exercise in frustration.  PVP is still a work in progress.

Overall: If they can get the bugs under control, it looks to be worth a subscription.  Just don’t expect it to have as much polish as WoW.

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Forza Motorsport 3 Review Posted

I’ve posted my Forza 3 review.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Review Posted

I’ve posted my short review for Modern Warfare 2.

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2009 Video Game Awards

For the 1st annual Tancap Video Game Awards:

Best Action Game
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3)

Best Driving Game
Forza Motorsport 3 (Xbox 360)

Best Exercise Game
EA Sports Active More Workouts (Wii)

Best Fighting Game
Street Fighter IV (PS3)

Best Platformer
New Super Mario Bros. (Wii)

Best Puzzle Game
None

Best Rhythm/Music Game
The Beatles: Rock Band (Xbox 360)

Best Role-Playing Game
None

Best Sports Game
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 (Wii)

Best Strategy Game
None

Best Multiplayer Game
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3)

Game of the Year
Uncharted 2: Amoung Thieves (PS3)

For areas where I didn’t make a choice it doesn’t necessarily indicate that I didn’t think there were good games released for that the genre, but rather there wasn’t any game that really stood out as being better than the rest.

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