Author: Matt Yeager
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Review: Pure Pinball (Microsoft Xbox)
Pure Pinball (Xbox) Genre: Miscellaneous – Pinball Platform: Xbox Rating: Everyone Publisher: XS Games Developer: Iridon Interactive Release Date: 08/05/04 Call me old fashioned but to me an arcade isn’t an arcade unless there’s at least a couple of pinball machines sitting around. Sure it might look like an arcade, smell faintly of BO and…
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Preview: ESPN NHL 2K5 (Xbox, PS2)
ESPN NHL 2K5 Platform: Xbox, Playstation 2 Category: Sports-Hockey Developer: Visual Concepts Publisher: SEGA Release Date: North America- August 31, 2005 With nothing but depressing news for hockey fans as we prepare for a strike that might effectively keep this falls season from happening, there is some good news.ԚÂ Much like the highly acclaimed ESPN…
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The Casual Gamers News Report 07.28.04
The Casual Gamers News Report 07.28.04 What happening everyone? Today’s report is going to be special and you want to know why? It’s going to be the last one from me. That’s right; your casual gaming representative is stepping down from the Wednesday report. But more on that later, right now”¦the NEWS Atlus shows 1st…
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The Casual Gamers News Report 07.21.04
The Casual Gamers News Report 07.20.04 Burned out on gaming a bit so welcome to the even more mailed in edition of the Wednesday News Report. NEWS Pure Pinball FINALLY gets a distributor Take Two becomes my personal saviors since they’ve decided to distribute a game that has seen nothing but monthly delays, Pure Pinball.…
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The Casual Gamer’s News Report
Casual Gamers News Report 07.13.04 Hey yo, I’m back after doing the Eric S. thing and moved. Course I only moved to a different part of the same city (Minneapolis represent!) and not across the country. Still problems with my DSL provider prevented me from being able to contribute for the last couple of weeks.…
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Casual Gamers News Report 06.16.04
The Casual Gamers News Report 06.16.04 Yo, welcome back to the Wednesday news with me your casual gaming correspondent. I’ve got a lot going currently going on and a load of GBA games I’ve been meaning to play so I’m going to kill off this abortion of a header right now and just get straight…
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Casual Gamers News Report 06.09.04
Casual Gamers News Report 06.08.04 THE NEWS Game ‘Critics’ Give E3 Awards Several news sources and video game magazines came together and announced the winners of apparently annual awards they give out to games that were on display at E3. Of the awards given, the award for Best of Show went to none other than…
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The Casual Gamers News Report 06.02.04
The Casual Gamers News Report 6.02.04 Hey, sorry to all for missing last week. Well, at least sorry to the three of you out there reading this. Lots of stuff going on in my life over the last week or so that took my attention away from the report, and expect it to happen again…
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Review: Van Helsing (XB) + Movie!
Van Helsing (Xbox) Platform: Xbox Rating: Teen Developer: Saffire Publisher: VU Games Release Date: 05/06/04 **I don’t know if this has ever been done for the site before, if not, welcome to the first dual-review of a video game and the movie it was based off of, so don’t click back to the site after…
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Review: UFC: Sudden Impact (PS2)
UFC: Sudden Impact Platform: PS2 Rating: Teen Developer: Opus Publisher: Global Star Games * Has anyone actually tried looking for this game? If so here is a sample of some of the responses that I got while looking for it that you will probably run across as well: ‘UFC: Sudden Imact? No such game exists,…
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The Casual Gamers News Report 05/19/04
THE CASUAL GAMERS CORNER The Wednesday News Report 05.19.04 How y’all doing? Still recovering from all the news from last week? The News Let’ start this thing strong with some news and rumors about Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Here’s what we know for right now about the story: Five years ago Carl Johnson escaped…
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Review: Manhunt (XB)
Manhunt (Xbox) Platform: Xbox Rating: Mature Developer: Rockstar North Publisher: Rockstar Games Release Date: 4/20/2004 One of the biggest modern urban legends is that of the snuff film. What is a snuff film? Read below for the long answer or skip ahead for the short answer. Trust me this does actually have to do with…
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The Casual Gamers Corner
The Casual Gamers Corner The Wednesday News Report 05.12.04 Holy Humpday Batman! There is just E3 news coming out of the woodworks. Let’s roll with The News! EA and Microsoft kiss and make up I can’t confirm the kissing part but in HUGE news for sport game fans and Xbox Live subscribers, EA and Microsoft…
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The Casual Gamers Corner
The Casual Gamers Corner The Wednesday News Report 05.05.04 Let’s get this thing rolling with THE NEWS Rumor Confirmed: Tekken 5 to be at E3 You heard about it in The Rumor Down-Lo and it’s now Tekken 5 is confirmed. A week ahead of E3 Namco has released a list of all the games they…
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The Wednesday News Report
The Casual Gamers Corner The Wednesday News Report 04.28.04 Double shot of me this week if you include Sunday. Sick of me yet? Who cares! Now shut up, sit down and let’s get this thing rolling. Onto the news! Olsen Twins Sue Acclaim “CJ” has obtained a lawsuit filed by Mary-Kate and Ashley against video…
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Review: Destruction Derby Arenas (PS2)
Destruction Derby Arenas Platform: PS2 Rating: Teen (although what there is in the game that gives it a Teen rating is beyond me) Publisher: Gathering Developer: Studio 33 Release Date: 04/01/04 One of the very first games that I ever played on the first Playstation was a game called Destruction Derby. It blew me away,…
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The SUNDAY News Report 04.25.04
The Casual Gamers Corner The Wednesday Sunday News Report 04.25.04 So how late is fashionably late? Due to computer problems I wasn’t able to do this the right way earlier this week but I was finally able to get my stuff together. Short this time because I was one a time limit when I wrote…
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Review: Resident Evil: Outbreak (PS2)
Resident Evil: Outbreak Platform: PS2 Rating: Teen Developer: Capcom Release Date: 04/01/2004 Before I begin this review I feel like I should define some terms that I will use within: Video Game- noun An electronic or computerize game played by manipulating images on a video display or television. Horrible- adjective Arousing or tending to arouse…
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The Casual Gamers Corner News Report 04.14.04
Week #2 and I’m still here, so let’s sit back and enjoy this party while it lasts. I threw a bunch of stuff in here last week just to see experiment with a few ideas and I’m not sure if I’m going to keep all of them going, so if you see something you like…
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The Casual Gamers Corner 04.07.04
THE CASUAL GAMERS CORNER The Wednesday News Report 04.07.04 Let’s get the party started. I’m Matt Yeager, don’t worry about remembering the name because it’ll be raining pink slips once I reveal what I decided to buy instead of a Dreamcast in 1999. But that’s for later. I also just want to take a second…