Pac-Man is celebrating his 30th Anniversary this year. And he deserves to celebrate, as his arcade game is the most successful coin-operated game out there. But even though Pac-Man is considered the first video game character with personality, there are four other game characters who share the same anniversary! That’s right, the four ghosts who chase after Pac-Man in the maze! So in the ‘spirit’ of Halloween, this blog is in honor of the ghost monsters in the Pac-Games. Read on, and you’ll learn there’s more than just Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde.

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Meet Captain Smiley. He’s a comic book super hero who’s had a bit of bad luck lately. You see, his comic book sucked so hard that it was quickly cancelled. Even worse, Smiley has a living, breathing, talking, mean-spirited star on his chest who complains and insults Smiley every step of the way. And Star has a man-crush on Smiley’s arch-rival, the narcissistic “Brad.” So what’s a super hero to do? Well, for Captain Smiley and Star, they must jump into other comic books to guest star in them to make enough money to re-launch their own series. It’s up to you to help them in this run and gun 2-D action platformer on Xbox LIVE.

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Sorry folks, this is just a filler blog because I can’t think of anything interesting to write a blog about. So this is the typical “What games am I looking forward to this fall” blog. A massive amount of games gets released this season for the holidays. But aside from Kingdom Hearts on the PSP, there really wasn’t anything else I was looking forward to in September. So I like to call it the ‘Calm Before the Storm’ because now that October is here, all the cool games come out soon! I imagine in September, most people were looking forward to Halo: Reach. But not me! I’m rather sick of that game myself. I couldn’t care less about Halo games, and brother Jeff plays Reach all the time. But anyway, enough of that. Here are some games I’m looking forward to playing in the next couple of months!

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“Cladun: This is an RPG” is what it says it is…an RPG! More specifically, it’s a real time action dungeon crawling hack and slash RPG with classic styled visuals and sensibilities. You can download it on PSN for your PSP for only 20 bucks.

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One of the most popular and well-recognized video games of all time is the iconic Space Invaders. Games that have staying power for years are able to change and evolve with the times, and Space Invaders is doing just that. Space Invaders: Infinity Gene for Xbox LIVE is the next evolution of the shooter that started it all more than 30 years ago.

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‘Chiptunes’ is a term for music performed with electronic equipment. Many of these chiptune songs sound like video game music from the NES era. Now there are improvements in chiptune equipment and peripherals that connect to the old Nintendo Game Boy which helps make composing easier. With live performances and other venues, chiptune music is on the rise, with many up and coming musicians. Recently, I got a chance to interview a local chiptune artist, Leroy Capasso.

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In honor of the new Kingdom Hearts game recently released on PSP, and the upcoming Epic Mickey adventure on Wii, I thought I’d write a blog about my favorite Disney themed video games! So put on your mouse ears and let’s begin!

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Your virtual family board game nights just got bigger with three new add-ons for Hasbro’s Family Game Night for Xbox 360. Test your skills with Jenga, Connect 4×4, and Pictureka. Keep in mind that these are game ADD-ONS, though. You must own a disc copy of Family Game Night or have it downloaded on your 360 for these to work. You can’t just download these titles by themselves and play them. So do the newcomers earn the Mr. Potato Head Spud of Approval? Read on to find out:

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No background story, no hype train, And Yet It Moves is just a simple, 2-D puzzle platformer on WiiWare. But there is a twist…literally! In the game, you shift the world around by tilting the Wii remote. So an impassible wall can become a floor, for instance. It’s a very creative concept and one of the few worthwhile WiiWare titles out there.

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A few weeks ago I wrote a blog about my most memorable Metroid moments, in anticipation of Other M. Well, I’ve been playing the new Metroid game for about a week now. I’ve posted comments on message boards and blogs that I was rather disappointed with it, but I never explained why. So I thought I’d make a short blog and do just that.

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