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NAME OF THE GAME

LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Feb 26, 2004
Spacecraft takes us back to future
Between the early niche years of "Pong" and the release of "Pac-Man," video gaming became where people went to play science fiction.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Feb 12, 2004
Classic game builds on game classic
Nintendo's Metroid has always been more popular in the United States and Europe than in Japan, but I'm really not sure why. The series follows the adventures of Samus, a female microbe-massacring bounty-hunter/astronaut, in some truly incredible space armor.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jan 29, 2004
Zip and zap -- Sonic's back
"Sonic Heroes," a very entertaining new arcade adventure from Sega for GameCube, Xbox and PlayStation 2, has four background stories -- and not one of them make sense.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jan 15, 2004
Green man hulks his weight about
"Hulk," a game based on the new Universal Studios movie, has an element that is missing from most games based on superheroes -- fun.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Dec 25, 2003
Egypt game brought to life
Sphinx is an ancient but not unathletic Egyptian hero with gangly arms and a lion's tail. Tut, short for Tutankhamen, is a goofy prince turned into a mummy before his time by an evil brother -- but being a mummy has certain advantages.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Dec 11, 2003
Mortality vs. morality
James Cash is the death row inmate and protagonist of "Manhunt" -- an ultra-violent new game for PlayStation2 from Rockstar Games -- and is given a new lease of life when his lethal injection turns out to be a sedative.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Nov 27, 2003
Hobbit's-eye view of world
You cannot put yourself in Frodo's shoes as Hobbits walk barefoot. You can, however, walk in Frodo's virtual footsteps.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Nov 13, 2003
Come to Disney, go to Mars
Mission: Space, a new ride/space flight simulator at Epcot Center, part of the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, takes Disney guests in a whole new direction -- straight up into space.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Oct 30, 2003
N-Gage fails to engage
It's no use beating around the bush, N-Gage, the new hand-held cellular telephone/video game system hybrid from Nokia, is quite probably the worst game system in video game history -- and that's counting such notable disasters as the Nintendo Virtual Boy and the Bandai Pipin.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Oct 9, 2003
TV icons hit the road
What do you get when you cross America's favorite dysfunctional family with the video game "Grand Theft Auto III"? You get "The Simpsons: Hit & Run," a new game from Vivendi Universal Games for Xbox.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Sep 25, 2003
Worth fighting for
Most "greatest hits" games are too familiar. They were great when they came out last Christmas and everybody bought them, but now they're simply old.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Sep 11, 2003
Let's roll -- at 800 kph
If there was ever a litmus test for hardcore gamers, "F-Zero GX" (F-Zero), a new antigravity racing game by Nintendo for the GameCube, is that test.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Aug 28, 2003
A horror smorgasbord
With monsters in the hallways, blood on the wall and gross-outs lurking behind every corner, "Silent Hill 3" is an all-out assault on the player's sensibilities.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Aug 7, 2003
Lessons in rage control
"Hulk," a game that is ever so loosely based on the new Universal Studios movie, has an element missing from most superhero action games -- fun.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jul 24, 2003
The pirate planner
It does not take money to make money, at least not when you're a pirate. In "Tropico 2: Pirate Cove," a new game for PCs from Take 2, you can gin up money from thin air. That is if you have a mighty ship and a blood-thirsty crew.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jul 10, 2003
Dracula's open house
When you think of James Bond movies, gadgets and martinis come to mind. When you go to a "Matrix" movie, you expect a mixture of multiple realities and dark glasses. When video game players hear the name "Castlevania," they expect a castle, armies of ghouls and a hero with a whip.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jun 19, 2003
Choose your weapons
"Soul Calibur 2," Namco's new fighting game for GameCube, Xbox and PlayStation2, has little new to recommend it. Thank goodness for that.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jun 5, 2003
Back on the fast track
Sega's Sonic The Hedgehog, the video-gaming world's fastest little blue rodent in tennis shoes, has returned in style. After a string of games that have ranged from old hat to downright disappointing, "Sonic Advance 2" -- a new game created by Sega for Game Boy Advance -- serves as a good reminder of how Sonic became a star.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
May 22, 2003
EA scores big time with 'MVP Baseball'
Who knows what burr got under Electronic Arts' saddle, but the biggest name in sports games is really sharpening its act. The publisher of such megahits as "John Madden NFL Football" and "FIFA Soccer," EA has always kind of stunk at baseball. Not anymore.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
May 8, 2003
Sony's own silver lining
With all of the big games that have come out lately, it's hard to keep up.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Air China to buy 100 locally made C919 jets in $11 billion deal
A Comac C919 during an aerial display at the Singapore Airshow at Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore in February
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Tokyo's Koto Ward by-election a race unlike any other
Natsumi Sakai, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan’s candidate and one of four female candidates running in the by-election, touts her experience as a cancer survivor and midwife as having prepared her to tackle issues that women currently face.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Top U.S. and China diplomats talk tough amid warnings of new ‘downward spiral’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Friday
Kyotographie's strong 12th edition shines light into the margins
Yassine Alaoui Ismaili, who goes by Yoriyas, turned to photography, shooting motion while in motion himself, after an injury forced him to give up his career as a professional breakdancer.

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