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Weekly Poll: Which Q4 game are you looking forward to the most?

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Hey looky there! A new poll! This one is such a doozy that I don’t even have an answer for it yet.

The polling widget I use only allowed for 10 choices, and it was hard to narrow the extensive release list to just 10. And do you know what is even scarier? Early 2011 is going to be far, far worse than this list.

But back to focusing on the not-so-distant future, which of all of these highly anticipated titles are you looking forward to the most? Which one is the only one that will make your Christmas complete? For the first time since the Wii’s launch, Nintendo has an impressive stack to fill your 2010. I would say that I’m extremely fortunate in that of their line-up, only Epic Mickey beckons me, but I’m quite not fortunate in every other arena. So many of these games showed up at E3, and they all look fantastic.

I might as well just kill off my wallet now just to be merciful.

EDIT: There has been a request for a write-in vote for Call of Duty: Black Ops. If you wish to write in this vote, please do so in the comments. 🙂

The Collector’s Edition Comparison: Dead Rising 2 Strategy Guide by Stephen Stratton

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Prima Games released their strategy guide for Dead Rising 2 on Tuesday, and, as they are oft wont to do, a Collector’s Edition. So, what’s the difference other than the fact one costs about $10 more and has a hard cover? Why should you spend that extra $10 on this guide instead of using it toward another game? [Read more…]

Strategy Guide Cover of the Week: Alan Wake

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Alan Wake Strategy GuideI must have cracked now, right? How can I choose a guide cover that has so little color for the Strategy Guide Cover of the Week? In this case, quite easily. The cover of the Alan Wake Strategy Guide–excuse me–Survival Guide says pretty much all you need to know about the game. It’s dark, it’s not inviting, and the fact that Alan seems to be holding a flashlight and not a gun makes it all the more scary. The mist and shadows coming from his last name further intensifies the feeling. [Read more…]

Weekly Poll: Are you excited about Halo Reach?

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Poll: How many video games to you play at once?Well thanks to all of your answers last week, I now know that I’m not alone in the multi-game insanity. I’m both comforted and forced to wonder about how short our attention spans as gamers truly are.

As for this week’s poll, I know that I’m talking about Halo far more than I normally would. I’ve never played the games, so all I know about them is that they are sci-fi first-person shooters that suck up many college students’ nights on multiplayer. I was always told that the single-player campaigns are horrible, and multiplayer is where the good stuff is. Considering that I don’t play multiplayer anything and FPSes aren’t my style, you can see why I’ve never picked up a game.

But I cannot deny that the fanboyism and excitement for the final Halo game is rampant. It really reminds me of all the trailers and countdowns and hype for Final Fantasy XIII. Halo fans hated that back then, and we FFXIII are paying for it now. Those who love both franchises are just giddy all over. Lucky dogs.

So all this has led me to ask if my readers or Twitter followers are excited about the newest Halo game coming out on Tuesday. The responses won’t convince me to review the strategy guide, but it will satisfy my odd curiosity.

Halo Reach Limited Edition Strategy Guide Covers

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If you follow me on Twitter, then it should come as no surprise that I am not a fan of the Halo series. I will get into my reasons why at another time, if desired. Despite how I personally feel about the franchise, I can’t help but marvel at the upcoming [amazon-product text=”Halo Reach Limited Edition Strategy Guide” type=”text”]0744012333[/amazon-product]. Like the Collector’s Edition for the Kingdom Hearts 2 strategy guide, the Limited Edition for Halo Reach will include one of six gorgeous covers. Even I, as a non-Halo fan, appreciate the beauty of these covers.

Now the real question is–and I’m sure it’s a quite foolish thing to ask–how many Halo fans will try to collect all six, like so many KH fans tried with the KH2 guide? It’s Halo guide Pokemon, people! Gotta catch ’em all!

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