Videos: Meet Me In Azeroth

Posted by Helvetica | September 4, 2010

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Icecream Headache: The Guild – Do You Wanna Date My Avatar

Posted by Helvetica | August 18, 2009

 

Making the rounds of the video game blogosphere, a music video by the hopefully now-famous online drama show “The Guild.” Featuring World of Warcraft game humor and a guild of equally maladjusted, but adorable, characters, we’ve always had a great deal of fun watching these and look forward to it continuing for some time.

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Crystal Chronicles on the Wii. God Help Us All

Posted by Nelson Williams | January 1, 2009

The official name is Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time, but down here on the streets, we’re calling it goddamn gamer crack. I’ve lost friends to the original game, always coming around, asking if I wanted to try some Crystal, telling me everyone’s doing it. Join the party, they said. Now, on the Wii, sometime in 2009? Hell, I tell you.

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How not to make a teaser trailer: Audere Semper

Posted by Helvetica | December 24, 2008

We are gigantic fans of adventure games in general. We play them a lot. See The Experiment, The Longest Journey series, Syberia, Bad Mojo, and more—but this one totally takes the cake on the worst teaser ever.

Words do not describe how terrible and not compelling this video is. If I were going to purchase this game at the store because I liked what it said on the box, this would probably turn me off. What did they make this in? Windows Media Maker?

It starts off too slow, pulsing between text and short-shot flip animation graphics. Then it leaps into these inexplicable falling letters that don’t actually create the title words, they rather fall into darkness, and that’s that. Finally we get the title.

And …

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