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TABLE OF CONTENTS November 2009 Massage Games Don’t Always Have Happy Endings The Xbox Massage-Makers: Money, Sex Toys & Indie Backlash by Stephen Totilo Intervention I Kept Playing – The Costs Of My Gaming Addiction by Mike Fahey Meet The FAQers For Little Money And In Many Words, These Gamers Help You by Owen Good Gaming’s Gamblers I Can Kick Your Butt, Wanna Bet? by Brian Ashcraft The Lone Gamer Is Single-Player Gaming In Danger Of Extinction? by Michael McWhertor Frighteners What Makes A Video Game Scary by A.J. Glasser REVIEWS Dead Space Extraction Review: Frighteningly Good PSP: Attack of the Minis Heroes Over Europe Review: A Flying Shame FIFA 10 Review: 30-Yard Screamer MySims Agents Review: Sherlock Holmes Didn’t Have To Deal With This $#@% NHL 2K10 Review: Thin-Ice Capades Spyborgs Review: Not-So-Heavy Metal Gran Turismo PSP Review: Steady As A Pace Car Wii Fit Plus Review: Now I’m A Believer MotorStorm: Arctic Edge Review: Big Game, Big Fun Katamari Forever Review: Nothing More, Nothing Less South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play! Review: Throwing Snowballs Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days Review: Crisis Hearts NBA 2K10 Review: Ball, You – Man! NBA Live 10 Review: Amen for a Revival Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Review: Boom Headshot! Brutal Legend Review: Testing Its Metal Lucidity Micro-Review: Beauty Is Only Skin-Deep Ju-on: The Grudge Review: Curse Of The Movie Game Half-Minute Hero Review: A Good Risk Zombie Apocalypse Micro-Review: Paint the Town Red Axel & Pixel Micro-Review: A Puzzling Combination Borderlands Review: Guns! Guns! Guns! Critter Crunch Micro Review: Gross In a Cute Way Bakugan Battle Brawlers Review: Almost There A Boy And His Blob Review: The Zero Nostalgia Version Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games Review: Going Through the Motions Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time Review: The Leap, At Last Marvel Super Hero Squad Review: This One Is For The Brats Dungeon Hunter Review: Pocketful of Diablo Rock Band Micro Review: iPhone Joins the Band Forza Motorsport 3 Review: Definitively Maybe DJ Hero Review: You Spin Me Right Round GTA: The Ballad Of Gay Tony Review: Out With A Bang Tekken 6 Review: The Lag of Iron Fist Saw Review: Do You Want to Play This Game? LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias Micro Review: A Pleasant Gust of Fun PREVIEWS Eliminate Preview: Transitive Verbs Are Cooler Than Nouns Sims 3 World Adventures: Chopsticks, Mummies & the French – Oh My! New Super Mario Bros. Wii Preview: All The Modes, All The Chaos Global Conflicts: Child Soldiers Preview: Show Me, Don’t Tell Me FATALE Preview: Alluring, Alarming and Totally Ambiguous Left 4 Dead 2 Scavenge Mode Preview: Giving Multiplayer The Gas Jam Sessions 2 Preview: I Fought The Law And Nobody Won Dark Void Preview: Learning To Fall With Style Sign Up To Test Zune, Facebook, And Twitter On Your 360 Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron Preview: I’m A Total Space Case Army of Two: The 40th Day Multiplayer Preview: Extract Some Fun Avatar Wii Preview: Environmentalism Commando Dementium II Preview: A Mature DS Game With “Hell Moments” MAG Preview: Come Back Here With My Tank! Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising Preview: The Darker Side Of Dawn COLUMNS Well Played Why Everyone Should Be Watching the PSPgo When the Going Gets Tough… Let the Game Play Itself Windows 7: What Happened to Gaming? Video Game Speakeasy Slips Into Soho for a Night of Raucous Fun Can Bigger Screens Save a Shrinking Market? Stick Jockey A Virtual Golfer Looks Back On – and Ahead to – His Tournament Career It’s Not in the Game – Should it Be? Re-Creating a Stadium Before Its First Pitch is Thrown With NCAA 10, EA Guns for Two Shining Moments Leigh Alexander In Praise Of Hard Games tim rogers i’ve been shot! COVER Designed by Michael McWhertor

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