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UncategorizedMay 16, 2008 8:45 pm

LittleBigPlanet and Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts are the big user created content-focused games that everyone’s talking about, but Line Rider got there first.


Physics geeks and people with very few friends have been addicted to the simple PC flash game for years, in which you draw an obstacle course on a blank sheet and set a little man in a physics-controlled loose to slide down it.

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Uncategorized 8:45 pm

During a promotional trailer for the band’s forthcoming studio album, Metallica has declared that its music is the “most requested” on both Rock Band and Guitar Hero.

You may remember a few years back that the aging rock chuggers were on the verge of appearing in their very own videogame under the Vivendi / Sierra moniker. The “high action, third person vehicle combat game packed with fully customized vehicles and weaponry, endless terrain and desperate, murderous opponents” was due out in 2005. Metallica was all set to do voiceovers and background music along with an original song for the title.

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