Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue 228

Contents

Editorial

Letters

Press Start: Destination: Déjà vu (Why games take us to the same places over and over again), Bokura no Telebi Game Kentei: Pikotto! Udedameshi (DS, Japan only release), 50 Cent II (PS3, Xbox 360, released as 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand), The Big Ones (Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360), Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PS3), Street Fighter IV (PS3, Xbox 360)), Put Up or Shut Up (a new gaming-gambling service), Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood (DS), Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3, Xbox 360), Fallout 3 (PS3, Xbox 360), Afterthoughts on Burnout: Paradise (PS3, Xbox 360), MotorStorm 2 (PS3, released as MotorStorm: Pacific Rift), Take this Job: Game-Bix Analyst, 5 Lives with Robert Bowling, Mario Kart Wii (Wii), (Re)Call of Duty (new multiplayer maps for Call of Duty 4), Rumor Mill, Coming Soon (Boom Blox (Wii), Haze (PS3), Iron Man (Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, PS2, PSP, DS), Midnight Club: Los Angeles (PS3, Xbox 360)).

Outside the Box (Downloadable titles for Xbox 360, PS3 & Wii):  

·         Empire: Alpha Complex (Xbox 360, released as Shadow Complex)

·         Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords add-on (Xbox 360, released as Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords - Revenge of the Plague Lord), & Puzzle Quest: Galactrix (Xbox 360)

·         Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness (Xbox 360)

·         Castle Crashers (Xbox 360)

·         Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix (Xbox 360, PS3)

·         Braid (Xbox 360)

·         Plunder (Xbox 360, PS3, released as Age of Booty)

·         Bionic Commando: Rearmed (Xbox 360, PS3)

·         1942: Joint Strike (Xbox 360, PS3)

·         The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai (Xbox 360)

·         Schizoid (Xbox 360)

·         Gridrunner++ (Xbox 360, never released)

·         LostWinds (Wii)

·         Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King (Wii)

·         LIT (Wii)

·         Major League Eating: The Game (Wii)

·         Eternity's Child (Wii, never released)

·         Fable II Pub Games (Xbox 360)

·         Lode Runner (Xbox 360, never released)

·         World of Goo (Wii)

·         Wipeout HD (PS3)

·         Echochrome (PS3)

·         Flower (PS3)

·         PixelJunk Eden (PS3)

Cover Story: Return to Duty – SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation (PS3)

Reviews:

·         Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)

·         Okami (Wii)

·         Opoona (Wii)

·         Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (PS3)

·         Dark Sector (PS3, Xbox 360)

·         Army of Two (PS3, Xbox 360)

·         Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds (PS3)

·         Universe at War: Earth Assault (Xbox 360)

·         Frontlines: Fuels of War (Xbox 360)

·         Lost in Blue 3 (DS)

·         The World Ends with You (DS)

·         Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer (DS)

·         Wild Arms XF (PSP)

·         Viking: Battle for Asgard (Xbox 360)

·         Supreme Commander (Xbox 360)

·         Rondo of Swords (DS)

·         Myst (DS)

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