Gamma Testing

The umelaut stands for two extra dots worth of metal.

Brütal Legend is flawed, but -- depending on your perspective -- not flawed enough to stop you from playing it.

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Annnnnd ... we're back.

After a month hiatus, Rick and Matt invite their parents in for a little retro-music recital courtesy of The Beatles: Rock Band. 

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Can a licensed super-hero game actually be worth playing? Yep. For once, a studio actually nailed the fundamentals of a comic book character in atmosphere, game play and story. And, it's fun.

Don't like Batman? No worries, Batman: Arkham Asylum is still a great game.

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Polish uber-man BJ Blazkowicz is back to kill Nazis in Wolfenstein, this time stopping Himmler's dreaded SS from harnessing the occult power of the Black Sun dimension. Or something.

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Shadow Complex -- from developer Chair and the mind of author Orson Scott Card -- is the best-selling single-player downloadable Xbox game in history.

It's easily the most enjoyable, entertaining and well-made video game you should never buy.

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Rick hates this JRPG Nintendo DS game -- cousin to the Persona and Devil Summoner series from Atlus -- but Matt and Brian are entranced by the compelling story.

Basically (heh), you play a high school kid who ends up with the power to kill God, become the messiah, destroy the planet, or affirm the power of humanity, all in just seven days of in-game time.

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We had a lot of fun with Nintendo's new Wii Sports Resort, designed to showcase the Wii Motion Plus plug-in, even if there are a few games that we'll never play again. (Canoe? Really?) The heightened sensitivity of the controller is great, even if it made Matt and Rick disappoint their cute Mii doggies and toss a dozen frisbees into the water. They made sure to punish Brian during swordplay, however.

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Rick, Brian and Matt realize just how far they are from semi-pro 2-D fighting game fanatics after playing BlazBlue. But even our clearly meager skills found some traction in the intricate gameplay of BlazBlue.

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Pirates. Monkeys. Monkey pirates. With a list of qualifications like that, who cares that this game is 19 years old.

Check out all the other reasons we think Secret of Monkey Island is worth picking up -- albeit with added voice acting and new graphics -- by listening to the podcast.

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This week we groove to the epic combat and movement options of super-dude action thriller Prototype, although even that can't justify the punishing, manipulative final boss fight. And, we talk about foie gras and the healthful qualities of quinine.

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