These last two weeks we have had some good new games come out.  Most notable of the lot are Red Dead Redemption and UFC 2010.  Fairly well selling though it is, UFC 2010 is NOT selling at near the rate that most retailers expected.  Extra copies abound.  Red Dead Redemption (for the xbox 360), on […]

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I was examining a new copy of “Heavy Rain” today and it occurred to me: are there any flat-chested women in video games? Outside of manga-inspired titles, anyway. Does anyone really pay attention to all these enhanced chests in video games, or are the game designers just stereo-typing their audience? It gets a bit insulting […]

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Looking at the covers of some recent releases, I can’t help but think they were trying to make some of their characters look like famous celebrities. For example, I could swear they’re were trying to make Bayonetta look like Sarah Palin. And the female character on the cover of Mass Effect 2…doesn’t she look a […]

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