Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue 242

Contents

Editorial

Login (Letters)

Press Start: Other People’s Property (the debate over used games), Pay to Play (Is the Xbox Live price hike worth it?), Nintendo 3DS feature, Time Capsule, 5 Lives with Peter Molyneux, The EGM Hot List (10 Features We Want for Online Services).

Interview with Tim Schafer (Founder of Double Fine Productions)

Cover Story: Extermination Day – Gears of War 3 (Xbox 360)

War Ensemble – Gears of War retrospective.

Follow the Leader – Gaming Globalization.

Feature – What the Hell is Indie, Anyway?

EGM’s 2010 Holiday Gift Guide

Next Wave (previews):

·         Fight Night Champion (PS3, Xbox 360)

·         The Last Guardian (PS3, would end up a PS4 release in 2016)

·         Homefront (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)

·         Test Drive Unlimited 2 (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)

·         World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (PC)

·         Lost in Shadow (Wii)

·         LittleBigPlanet 2 (PS3)

·         Plants vs. Zombies (DS)

·         Dead Space 2 (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)

·         Breach (Xbox 360)

·         Mass Effect 2 (PS3)

Reviews:

·         Fallout: New Vegas (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)

·         Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (PS3, Xbox 360)

·         Medal of Honor (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)

·         Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii)

·         Rock Band 3 (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii)

·         EA Sports MMA (PS3, Xbox 360)

·         Vanquish (PS3, Xbox 360)

·         Super Scribblenauts (DS)

·         NBA 2K11 (PS3, Xbox 360)

·         Costume Quest (PS3, Xbox 360)

·         Super Meat Boy (Xbox 360, Wii)

·         DeathSpank: Throngs of Virtue (PS3, Xbox 360)

·         NHL 2K11 (iPhone)

·         Super Mega Worm (iPhone, iPad)

·         Pocket Frogs (iPhone, iPad)

·         Osmos (iPhone, iPad)

·         Texting of the Bread (iPhone, iPad)

·         Epic Citadel (iPhone)

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