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Review
The Adventures of Tintin: The Game

Wouldn’t it be funny if Tintin was responding to a booty call of another kind?

The Adventures of Tintin: The Game is a Ubisoft-made movie tie-in based on the impressive looking Spielberg film. I would consider this game to be a relatively fun platformer with sprinkles of action and a dash of puzzles. Aside from a distinct lack of variety that shackles the one of game’s legs to a cannon ball (causing it to stumble slightly at times), Tintin can actually be a lot of fun if you have the right mindset.

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Interview
Marcus Smith (Insomniac Games)

The Chimera sometimes like to re-enact West Side Story.

An awesome tidbit from Erika and Ricky to tide y’all over until our Resistance 3 review is out.

With the recent release of Resistance 3 exclusively on PlayStation 3, we had the opportunity to speak with Insomniac Games’ Creative Director Marcus Smith about the game-play and plot changes from Resistance: Fall of Man to the latest iteration, articulating the measures taken to make the game what it is today. We also talk about alien invasions, nightmares about the Chimera and other influences this series holds dear. Insomniac has certainly done an impressive job with this series and hopefully this interview will shed some light on more aspects of it.

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First Impressions
Resistance 3

Recently, Erika and Ricky attended an event graciously put on by Sony for Resistance 3. Contained within this article are each of their impressions of the game; be warned, they both go off in interesting directions, so make sure you leave a trail of bread crumbs.

• Introduction
• Ricky’s Take
• Erika’s Take

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Review
Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension

Even Jell-O can go bad.

I had no idea of the existence of Phineas and Ferb until this past spring at a Disney Preview event. This children’s television show follows the lives of two intrepid young boys on their summer vacation. Each day, the boys engage in some brand new scheme (that annoys their sister Candace); usually, there is a secondary plot involving Perry the Platypus (also known as “Agent P”, a member of an all-animal espionage unit) who is out to thwart his nemesis, Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz. Inevitably, the two plots collide and a resolution is reached, which usually involves the boys losing their memories of the events, as well as any projects that they have created (to the dismay of Candace, who keeps trying to bust them).

Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension is based on the movie of the same name. The the game starts off with the normal cast being chased across dimensions by a a more sinister version of Doofenshmirtz from the 2nd dimension. Phineas and Ferb (and company) will have to explore and conquer new worlds to set things right.

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E3 2011 Coverage
Checking In With Sony

E3 is a crazy time for gaming and tech journalism. So much goes on that it’s a pain to sift through everything to try and figure out what is most important. Everyone and their grandmother is reporting on something from E3. We decided to employ a different strategy this year. We are going to do a bit of a retrospective on what happened last week so people can digest without being distracted. First up: Sony. We had a chance to chat with Matt Levitan from Sony Playstation Canada about Sony’s E3 press conference…

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Review
Playstation Move Heroes

As someone that is only familiar with the six heroes in Playstation Move Heroes from commercials, I was a bit curious as to how I would feel about playing the title. Mike Jackson is nuts about these guys (having enjoyed Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack In Time and, more recently, The Sly Collection, indicating that the rich stories and great characters are some of the reasons why he likes these franchises. As a neophyte to these characters, I had no real expectations going in; but I had a big smile on my face after I played the game.

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Review
MLB 11: The Show

Last year, Mike Croft reviewed MLB 10: The Show, declaring it the best Baseball game that he has played on any platform. Shortly after his review, I tried the game for myself (with one of my neighbours); I truly was the best baseball game that I had played in a long time. Now that MLB 11: The Show has landed in my glove, I am going to have to take back the World Series trophy from 2010 and declare a new winner: 2011′s version takes the prize.

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News Bytes
Stuff From Lately

The cold grip of winter remains through March, allowing us to feel justified in staying in and playing our precious, precious games. One source of warmth seems to be the seemingly endless amount of DLC coming out this month; not too shabby. There are also some other little tidbits that we have discovered. So much to see…

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March Break Madness
Off the Wall? Off the Couch!

A lot has been made lately of the interactivity of games; and rightly so. The image of the stereotypical gamer up until recently has been synonymous with ‘couch potato’ (even with Nintendo’s more active innovation years ago). Now, with Sony’s Playstation Move and Microsoft’s Kinect, it is getting harder to refer to us gamers as ‘sacks of potatoes’; especially so, since the introduction of so many new offerings in fitness software.

I had the chance to chat briefly with Sharon Vinderine (founder and CEO of PTPA Inc.*) about motion gaming and its role in family fitness. Sharon spoke about the role of Kinect and urges families to give it a spin, especially in light of the upcoming March Break**.

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Move Into the New Year
A Few Things to Note…

Good ol’ KB tells you where you can stick this if you don’t like it.

Sony’s Playstation Move launched a few months ago with a number of Move titles at a decent price point; also, people that I have spoken to (for the most part) really seem to enjoy it. And what’s not to enjoy? With a decent number of casual games available, as well as some titles that are not so casual, the Move appeals to a fairly wide audience. Now that the retail dust of Christmas and Boxing Day has settled, people can mosey out to the stores and remain unmolested while they check out some of these titles…

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