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It’s tough for a game to be funny. So it’s no slight praise when GamesRadar says that Hail to the Chimp is funny– if you’re in your 20s: Through it all, the comedy keeps flowing, often in the form of commercials or news reports. Just how funny these bits are is debatable here in the…

The news isn’t all bad for Crackers the chimp, though. 1Up’s reviewer gave the game a B+, and the average of users and editors on the site is an A. The site praised the game for the humorous news segments as well as the unabashedly strange gameplay elements. And when this plays into the objectives,…

Game Over. Insert Coin. The balance between carrot and stick, reward and punishment, in game design was so much simpler back in the arcade. Take the gamer’s money and give them a limited number of chances to progress, usually called “lives” since failure nearly always means death. When the player runs out of lives, they…

More or less at random I happened upon The First Hour blog, which reviews only the first hour of a video game. Game #12, reviewed back in September 2007 (just in time for Halo 3 to come out) was the original Halo. As an extension to that blog, Beyond The First Hour reviews games after…

For a game company that made its name with a game about a zombie who used his body parts as weapons, it’s ironic to say that only now, with the release of Hail to the Chimp, are things starting to get ugly. Problem is, the ugly thing is the reviews. Citing game modes that are…

Another disappointing review for Hail to the Chimp: Variety says this political humor game isn’t funny, and isn’t really political. Ouch!

Kotaku’s list of game releases for this week has Wideload’s Hail to the Chimp slated to hit store shelves on Tuesday, July 1– and features the cover art for the game as the lead for what they call a “thin week”.

mr smiley teamed up with Pyroman to try to beef up the “Master Chief Theater 3000” series a bit. Two heads are better than one, right? They have big plans for this series, and are excited to be part of it. Check out the first (episode 4 of the series) of many episodes to feature…

A new article on Xbox.com shows how to transfer the software licenses from an old console to a new one. Finally!

This week’s Double XP weekend features twelve players, four teams, and three balls. Check it out!

Jonathan Churchill has updated his transcription of Finish the Fight for Orchestra. Check it out!

Kotaku reader frostcircus sent in an excerpt from what purports to be a marketing survey regarding possible future Halo titles. It’s unclear to me whether this is something a marketing company prepared at Microsoft’s request, or something they did independently to gather market intelligence, or what. If the former, it may mean Microsoft is seriously…

…but not so much for the gameplay. They rate it 3/5 overrall but say the game is more fun to watch than to play. Ouch.

Monsters and Critics is reporting that Wideload Games’ sophomore effort (at least, its second full-length offering) is now shipping: Hail to the Chimp is available for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Halo 3 players XxFLAWxLESSxX, Rockout514, and lxjarh34dxl recreated the very first ever Halo screenshot using the Halo 3 engine. Lukems posted it up at Bungie.net, along with the old shot for comparison.

A new site for serious discussion of the Halo games; non-fans need not apply!

The PlayStation Network may have its work cut for it catching up to the onlin gaming experience offered by Xbox Live, but Crackers the chimp is lending a hand with the demo of Hail to the Chimp, the party game from Wideload, now available on the service.

Nebula nominee Tobias Buckell has been tapped to pen the next Halo novel, Halo: The Cole Protocol, due out in Fall of this year. Buckell published his first science fiction novel, Crystal Rain, in 2006, and followed it up with Ragamuffin in 2007.

Bungie Screenshots Verify "Chill Out" RemakeKotaku.com, NY – 21 hours agoWe linked to last week’s MLG San Diego coverage that unveiled the remake, for Halo 3, of Halo:CE’s popular "Chill Out" map. Bungie has now dropped two …

Wall Street Journal Can Videogames Be Funny?Wall Street Journal – Jun 20, 2008Bungie is famous for the laser-tinged action of the wildly popular Halo videogame series — the last installment racked up $300 million in sales its first …