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Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony, Torchlight, James Cameron's Avatar

Monday, November 9th, 2009 – running time 25:59

The words "movie" and "license" area anathema to gamers when paired and the exception is rare. Fortunately, this week's coverage of <em>Jame's Cameron's Avatar</em> may show us a way to one of said exceptions. We were invited to an event at the Dolby Labs in San Francisco to experience the game hands-on (in 3D no less). <em>Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony</em> ratchets up the excitement and the better-than-<em>Diablo</em> <em>Diablo</em> clone <em>Torchlight</em> receives some much deserved face time.

Is 3D gaming a gimmick? Does anyone expect to actually own a "3D Ready" television soon enough to give a care as to whether Avatar is in 3D or not? We're on the fence on this one, but that didn't stop us from accepting an invitation to put on some goofy looking glasses and try it out for ourselves.

GRAND THEFT AUTO IV: THE BALLAD OF GAY TONY

Liberty City is an endless playground for ideas and implementation of said ideas and as long as Rock Star continues to deliver quality on the order of The Ballad of Gay Tony it's likely we'll keep buying each episode. Ryan, Cesar, and our friend from RebelFM and Eat. Sleep. Game., Tyler Barber get behind the wheel again for some insane, action-movie-esque times in the seedy underbelly of Liberty City's club scene.

02:49 | Play

TORCHLIGHT

Diablo clones are many. Excellent ones are few and Torchlight is the best of them yet. Granted, it lacks multiplayer but given the pedigree of the developers (many of which are the same people that brought you the first two Diablo games) it should be small wonder that Torchlight feels like an evolution of the gameplay type rather than an also-ran. Arthur Gies from the RebelFM podcast and Eat. Sleep. Game. came over to talk with Matt about why any Diablo fan not caught up exclusively on multiplayer should give this one a go.

12:03 | Play

JAMES CAMERON'S AVATAR

We were invited (and accepted, of ourse) to go see Jame's Cameron's Avatar at the Dolby Labs here in San Francisco. 3D in the best audio environment imaginable? Yes please! We got to put the controllers in our hot little hands and give both the Human and Nav'vi characters a go. Check out our preview within!

21:22 | Play

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Show Title:

CO-OP

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From the creators of The 1UP Show, CO-OP continues the tradition. No review scores. No talking heads. It's a show simply inspired by the conversations real gamers are having every day with their peers. RESPECT THE GAME.

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Video Games

Launch Date:

Mar 9, 2009

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