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December 19, 2005
GameGal's Real Girl Gift Guide 2005
With every magazine and website under the sun putting together a Holiday Gift Guide for their audience, we thought we'd take a slightly different look at the whole gift guide thing.
Instead of putting products into categories for imaginary stereotypes, we asked some of our favorite real-life girl gamers for their holiday gift picks. Behold, the very first ever Real-Girl Gift Guide!
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Donatella Pereira Graphic Designer |
Stubbs the Zombie (Xbox, PC)
Retro brain-munching action!
The Movies (PC)
Make your own flicks with this tinsletown sim.
City of Villains (PC)
Crime does pay in this super-powered online multiplayer sequel.
We Love Katamari (PS2)
And we also love rolling up things in our giant sticky ball.
Nintendogs (DS)
Better than the real thing – and less clean-up.
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Carol Orsini Project Manager |
Stubbs the Zombie (Xbox, PC)
After so many years of killing zombies, it’s time to experience the other side. And eating brains doesn’t sound too bad either…
Guitar Hero (PS2)
The funkier the controller, the better. Plus, where else can I practice my face-melting metal guitar solos?
F.E.A.R. (PC)
Horror just isn’t complete without big guns, random skeletons being violently thrown about and creepy little supernatural girls. So money.
Condemned: Criminal Origins (Xbox 360)
Gorgeous graphics, crazy suspense and melee attacks all around. Beating down deranged homeless types has never been so sweet.
Mario Kart DS
First off, your own screen in battle mode? Thank you. The ‘Kart’ is back in a beautiful way -- old courses, new attacks and WiFi that makes me drool.
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Jenni Miller Web Producer |
Dear Satan, I mean Santa,
My Christmas wishes are dark and spooky, because, after all, every day is Halloween.
Santa, bring me Resident Evil 4 and The Suffering: Ties That Bind for the PlayStation 2. Please, Santa, I promise I will fight those zombies good! And if you're feeling generous and you're not constrained by Sarbanes-Oxley laws (as is Steve Ballmer), please hook me up with an Xbox 360 (and not that crummy core system!) so I can pretend to be Clarisse Starling in Condemned: Criminal Origins, and eat brains in Stubbs the Zombie (thanks to the magic of backwards compatibility) and eventually drool over Cliver Barker's Demonik.
I promise to leave you lots of spooky treats under my Chanukkah tree!
Jenni
Posted by gamegal at 11:36 PM | Comments (0)
December 16, 2005
Xbox 360 Hardware Review
We'll get around to cataloging our experiences with the first batch of Xbox 360 games soon enough, but in the meantime, check out our overview of the hardware, design, controllers and system software.
There's a lot more to the 360 experience than just games, and we're big fans of the Media Center functionality, as well as the new Xbox Live, among other important improvements from the original Xbox. Check out the review for more.
Link: http://www.gamegal.com/news/newsscript.cgi?record=32
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Katamari Klothes
If you're as Katamari-crazy as we are, then you'll flip for these official Katamari t-shirts.
There are only a few officially licensed items from our favorite giant rolling ball simulator. There are no plush toys, lunchboxes or collectable trading cards – pretty much just the soundtrack, these shirts, and well, that's it.
They're sure to go fast, so roll one up today (we couldn't resist).
Link: http://www.panic.com/goods/#katamari
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December 01, 2005
Louis Vuitton Xbox 360
Ok, it's not really a custom Xbox 360 from the high-end handbag maker (remember those bling'd-out Sony PSPs?), but it is the next best thing. A website specializing in decals for various electronic gadgets has a Louis-Vuitton-style skin for your Xbox 360, and it actually looks pretty sweet.
Of course, the closest we usually get to the real LV is Canal Street knock-offs, but if the 360 design is a little cold and sterile for your living room (even with an optional wood panel faceplate), then you might find this vinyl sticker set to your liking.
Link: http://www.decalgirl.com/browse.cfm/4,3963.htm
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