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The Uncanny Valley Of Digital Cleavage

Here at eGamer we pride ourselves on delivering good wholesome family entertainment for everyone. With cerebral thought provoking articles about games and gaming culture. We would never ever resort to [...]

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5 Gaming Web Apps That Will Make Your Life Easier

In my many travels across the interwebs, I have found several really useful web-applications that will make your life easier if you are the owner of an Xbox 360, PS3 or [...]

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For The Budget Gamers

Every gamer who is reading this has at least once had the experience of not having enough money to purchase a game they really wanted, and contemplated selling vital organs [...]

Left 4 Dead Live-Action Trailer Shows Probably The Best Fan Film You’ll Watch All Year

Director Adrian Picardi’s live-action fan trailer for a Left 4 Dead movie shows the four survivors gearing up for combat as the infected roam the streets, tear apart bodies, and [...]

Games Are Not To Blame For Norway Massacre

This is the face of evil. This is a pathological killer who loathes Muslims; a conspirator, racist and ultra-extremist, whose hateful beliefs were the reason for his horrid attacks on the Utoya [...]

Game Reviews, Just Another Sales Pitch?

Ever since big titles such as Mass Effect, Skyrim, and Call of Duty became popular, and hit the mainstream gaming market, I started noticing that game reviews were changing. Is it just [...]

Gamers, Who Are They?

Click the image to enlarge. Or, read the entire thing in text form. “You know, when I was 15, 16, 17-years-old , I spent five hours a day juggling, and I [...]

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Full Time Father, Half Hour Hero

You would think because I am such an avid gamer and geek that my whole childhood was also filled games and comics, but oddly enough it wasn’t. I was more content climbing trees, [...]

Do Used Games Hurt Developers?

After reading an article by Denis Dyack, from Silicon Knights, saying that used games hurt developers, I was somewhat curious about this. Denis Dyack is from the very same Silicon [...]

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Why Fans Get Annoyed With DLC

This is a simple, yet effective, infographic showing the difference between DLC from couple of years back versus now. It’s pretty funny, and it points out the truth on how [...]

Review: Deadly Creatures

George Struggs and Wade are looking for a location in the desert where they believe gold from the American Civil War has been buried. The story is told from the perspective of tarantula and the scorpion with both creatures often seeing the same thing but from a different perspective. When Struggs and Wade finally find the civil war gold, Struggs turns on Wade and this is where the story of Deadly Creatures really kicks off without giving much away.

First 60 minutes with MadWorld

Yes it has finally hit our shores, well not really since I had to import my copy of Madworld at least I got it almost 2 weeks before our local release date and at the fraction of the cost it is getting sold at here. Anyway after a quick Wii system update from the disk, you are first greeted with a black and white noir style menu.

New Nintendo Wii update now with SD card channel

Yes you read the topic correctly, run a system update on you console and after it restarts check out the new “SD channel” located next to the Wii system channel. And yes if you are thinking what I am thinking, you can now run your virtual console and Wiiware games off your SD card. And that is not all; the new Wii system update also adds support for SDHC cards up to 32 GB! That is a crap load of virtual console games…

Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles announced for Wii

Capcom yesterday announced its plans for a big comeback of its multi-million-selling franchise, Resident Evil to the Nintendo Wii. Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, is the sequel to the highly successful Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, and is in development exclusively for the Wii and is set to hit stores this coming winter.

Review: Halo Wars

Halo Wars takes place in the 26th century Halo universe. In 2525, humans were attacked by a collective of alien races known as the Covenant. The Covenant declared humanity an affront to their gods, the Forerunners, and have aggressively waged war against the humans, under the auspices of the United Nations Space Command.

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Metroid Prime Cosplay by “Yuki”

Okay color me very impressed but this has to be the best Metroid Prime Varia Suit cosplays I have seen to date.Thaís Jussim, aka Yuki, is a fantastic, 26-year-old, Brazilian [...]

Top Ten things to do in Halo Wars

Jack an enemy Wraith tank with a Spartan. This is the absolute best “money shot” in the entire game.

Download the Halo Wars tech tree chart

To give you a better understanding of Halo Wars tech tree and unit structures, and all the upgrades available in the game, Xbox.com posted a downloadable Halo Wars tech tree [...]

Review: House of The Dead: Overkill

Set in 1991 before the events of House of the Dead, AMS Special Agent G is given his first assignment and sent to a small town in Louisiana to investigate a series of disappearances and hunt down a deranged crime lord, Papa Caesar. Due to the presence of mutants, G is forced to team up with Detective Isaac Washington who is out to get revenge on Caesar for apparently killing his father. The pair first storm a house out in the woods. Upon entering the basement, they find Caesar has fled, and the disabled scientist Jasper Guns, whom Caesar used, is horrifically mutated from injecting himself with an unknown substance. Upon defeating Jasper, G and Isaac meet Varla Guns, a stripper and Jasper’s sister who vows revenge on Caesar.

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Deadly Creatures (First Impressions)

George Struggs and Wade, voiced by Billy Bob Thornton and Dennis Hopper. Is looking for a location in the desert where they believe gold from the American Civil War has been buried. The story is told from the point of view of both the tarantula and the scorpion with both creatures often seeing the same thing but from a different perspective.

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Un-Boxing Halo Wars (Special Edition) + First 2 hours of Game

So I picked up my Special Edition copy of Halo Wars for the Xbox 360 this morning and I must say this is the nicest Special Edition package I have seen in a very long time, not to mention sexy looking. So what exactly comes with the Special Edition package? Well the Special Edition comes in your standard plastic over inside that cover you will find a tin box containing the game and manual.

Review: Okami Wii Edition

Set in an unspecified period of classical Japanese history, Ōkami combines several Japanese myths, legends and folklore to tell the story of how the land was saved from darkness by the Shinto sun goddess, named Amaterasu, who has taken the form of a white wolf. The game begins with a flashback to events 100 years prior to the game’s present, and describes how Shiranui, a pure white wolf, and Nagi, a swordsman, together fought the eight-headed demon Orochi to save Kamiki village and the maiden Nami, Nagi’s beloved.

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Create Your Own House of the Dead: Overkill Poster

As you know, I recently got my grubby little hands on the special edition of House of the Dead Overkill. What you didn’t know is that Sega has launched a poster creator for the game, and to say to say that it is friggen awesome is an understatement.

Un-Boxing The House of The Dead: Overkill (Special Edition)

So my first game I purchased from the UK store Shopto arrived in the country today and I went to pick it up at the local post office. This is the special edition of House of The Dead: Overkill, the special edition includes a comic entitled “Prelude to A Overkill” which tells the back-story of one of the characters namely Isaac Washington presented in a noir style similar to that of the Sin City movie.

Gears of War Movie (Fantasy Cast)

After my previous blog post I was thinking it would be fun to try and make up a fantasy cast for the upcoming Gears of War movie, so I went and did some searching and found these images that someone matched and compiled to make up the fantasy cast for the movie. And I must say its pretty much spot on up to the point that it is almost scary…

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The “Uncanny Valley” of Digital Cleavage Uncovered

It seems that most game developers have reached the uncanny valley with games becoming more and more realistic everyday, pushing the bounders of graphical limits and realism each time they release a new game. But it seems the developers have reached one major hurdle in the quest for the uncanny valley and realism, and that would the breasts. Yes that is right breast physics in games; more often than not these take on a life of their own and forgo the natural law of physics.

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Review: Disaster: Day of Crisis

One year ago, during a rescue mission on Mt Aguilas, Raymond Bryce and his team were caught in a sudden volcanic eruption. In the mayhem that follows, Ray’s best friend Steve lost his life. Unable to save his friends and overcome with a strong feeling of remorse, Ray lost the will to save people.

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