The Navy has heard about a key that holds a deadly curse, so it must be retrieved at all costs and taken back to their fortress for safekeeping. They send you (Captain Smallberries) to retrieve the key, which was last known to be in Porto Bello, but fears entering Spanish waters under a Navy flag will cause a war between the Navy and Spanish fleets.

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When it comes to licensed professional wrestling titles in recent years, WWE Smackdown vs. Raw has been the reigning champion. Those times may be changing. TNA iMPACT! is here to challenge that champion to a no holds barred match in the hopes of claiming the title of best professional wrestling videogame series.
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LucasArts has always had the tendency to release games with the Jedi-swinging, blade thrusting label in a dark light. Boundlessly, players have been left desultory in showing any sort of concern to the general Star Wars direction in terms of video games. Countless accessories, a ton of spin-off, and many mediocre games after, LucasArts finally manages to make Star Wars: The Force Unleashed a game that doesn’t come up half awry. Any comic-con freak with a lightsaber under his belt will find consolation here, minus the slow slices of saber-burn trailing from the repetitive hack and slash combined with half witted mo-cap acting in a story presented so completely.

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The horror genre has always been somewhat of a parody in films, from the overly obvious storyline to the antediluvian protagonist of the outmoded and depleted performances that make an unremarkable concerto. The constitution that Eden Games derived from Alone in the Dark doesn’t falter notwithstanding some technical issues in minor places. Life isn’t easy for the paranormal investigator Edward Carnby who finds himself in a night where he must fight to survive and in doing so, learns the horrible truths behind New York’s Central Park. Contented with wide-screen cinematic, including decent environmental interaction and physics, really amazing visuals with a storyline meshed in with an easy to follow interface, Alone in the Dark is doing a lot of things that most games fail to do in this generation.

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Twenty years ago, many of you weren’t even born. For many longtime gamers of the original NES classic Bionic Commando, this clingy title still holds a warm place in the heart. Cherished for its difficulty, Bionic Commando: Rearmed is a 8-bit classic revamp that comes in the form of a next generation tune up that keeps all the greatness from the days gone by to modernize it, and adds various new bad ass challenges for you to shoot, swing, and grapple. Remakes are usually never enough, and Capcom realizes this to undeniably recreate one of the best remade downloadable games on XBLA and PSN to date.

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Throughout our lives we meet certain people. Some Most are plain up rude, snobby, and pretentious. Then there are some pretty cool ones. For the new readers, and our old ones who give loyalty another meaning, you’ve all noticed our latest additions of Editors: David Jeffers and Danny Jeffers. While they have been behind the scenes of WhatIfGaming, making all the amazing things possible with the site production and media over the years, they’re taking more of the spotlight (yes, we got your e-mails) and apparently changing it.

So to show my appreciation for two really talented journalists for WhatIfGaming culture, I have dedicated a little video for them from our thought-to-be lost archive of footage. This whole display is out of the ordinary. If it wasn’t, we really wouldn’t be the blog you have all come to know and love. Stay classy Los Angeles, or wherever you are.

Award Shows aside, we are currently busy with the following:

Sid Meier’s: Civilization Revolution

Soulcalibur IV Review

Siren: Blood Curse

We are committed to bringing the best reviews with less BS to all of you guys out there and we are working hard to do that.

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Another year and another awards season. E3 was packed with exciting memories you have all seen (some still to be posted), and rooms filled with the hottest and most anticipated titles to date. It was certainly a great time, and now that time is over. It is time to look forward, ahead to newer and better releases, and to ennoble titles in this year’s WhatIfGaming’s Best Of E3 Awards 2008.

Criteria: The Best of E3 Awards, a subcategory for the WhatIfGaming Prizes, are given solely to those video games that demonstrate a pure excellence in the field for which they are not only nominated but also chosen. These awards only apply to playable games at E3 given a few exceptional categories.

Nomination & Selection Process: Compared with other site awards, the WhatIfGaming Prize nomination and selection process is long and extremely rigorous. This is the sole reason why WhatIfGaming Prizes have grown in importance over the years to become the most important prizes in their field. Forms, which amount to a personal and exclusive invitation, are sent to about over 1,000 selected individuals to invite them to submit nominations months in advance from the latest builds per video game. Self-nominations are disqualified. For WhatIfGaming Prizes, inquiries are sent to such people as developers, industry experts, analysts, freelance journalists among others. After our deadline passes, the nominations are chosen by permanent committee of 5 selected individuals and only the final stage of nominees remain per category. From all of these, a winner is chosen.

The names of the nominees are not publicly announced, and neither are they told that they have been considered for the WhatIfGaming Prize. Some are announced publicly by practice. Nomination records are revealed approximately 2 years after each respective award year.

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Here’s some footage we recorded for you guys. We do not believe in generic stand and capture every time. We like to capture moments. This is one out of many to come. Flash Version Now Available For All Upcoming Videos Due To Popular Request

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We can just say that ESA’s 2,500 people invite-only model of the E3 Media and Business Summit as of 2007 is a digression to the dreams and happiness of that gamer who saves up everything for games, and has nothing more forward to look to during that time of the year than a massive event. The problem is that it is not true. In fact, the ESA’s decision to make E3 invite-only is one of the best decisions they could have ever made apart from catching pirates in the Northern regions of Seattle or some place like that. People have become tuned to the idea that the downsize is the worst possible thing that simply could have happened. The newest model of E3 has brought a sense of eventual prejudice and mostly misdirection from all fields that makes it apparent that many people are far from the realities of it.

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505 Games today announced a deal with Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising to unleash an official new game based on the world-famous Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise, exclusively for the Nintendo DS.

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