Griffin McElroy
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Griffin is a recent graduate of Marshall University with four years of experience in professional video games reporting. In addition to his work as Contributing Editor and Weekend Co-Editor for Joystiq, he's produced content for a number of local West Virginia news organizations and contributed to MTV's Choose or Lose Street Team '08 election coverage.
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Thrustmaster teases Gran Turismo 5 racing wheel
Look, you've waited 800 years for Gran Turismo 5 to arrive; don't you think you've earned the right to play the game the way God (and Kazunori Yamauchi) intended? We're speaking, of course, about playing the game using a beefy racing wheel created by the most suggestively named peripheral ...
Standalone motion-sensing game console believes honesty is the best policy
We've seen plenty of cheap imitators of the Nintendo Wii since the system launched back in 2006 -- but we've never seen one of these knockoffs be quite so honest as the "Wireless 60." Seriously, the product description on the back of its box borders on self-deprecating. ...
Survey gauges interest in potential future Assassin's Creed features
Online poll distributor GMI Survey recently uploaded a questionnaire allowing Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood players to rate various aspects of their experience with the game -- provided said players fit into the male, UK-based demographic sought out by the survey. After evaluating the strength of ...
Australian federal cabinet approves R18+ games rating, passing along to AGs
Australian gamers who are also grown-ass adults are now one huge step closer to getting their hands on mature games currently deemed too perverse to be released in their homeland. Australia's federal cabinet recently approved the R18+ rating for video games which has eluded the country for many ...
Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is sealing it off
December has, once again, snuck up on us, bringing along its unwelcome guests, Mr. Sub-Freezing Temperatures and Mrs. Five Inches of Overnight Snow Accumulation. We're going the whole nine yards to prevent winter's grasp from entering our abodes this year: We've got extra insulation for the walls, ...
White Knight Chronicles: Dogma Wars trailer gets cooperative
The mobile, multiplayer-equipped White Knight Chronicles Episode.Portable: Dogma Wars recently received a debut Japanese trailer to go along with its release date announcement. Check out a few clips of the battle system, character customization and infrastructure mode posted below. ...
'Murder Your Maker' VGA teaser site updated with Prototype footage
Last week, Activision uploaded a teaser site featuring the tagline "Murder Your Maker," which we hypothesized was hinting at the reveal of a new installment in the Prototype series during the Spike VGAs. A brief video which was recently added to the site appears to confirm our suspicions. ...
Sony representative says no 3D support for LittleBigPlanet 2
Sony and Media Molecule have remained relatively tight-lipped on whether their even-more-customizable platformer, LittleBigPlanet 2, would feature the kind of 3D support that's quickly becoming a mainstay for major PS3 releases. Though we've heard a few reports to the contrary from Sony in the ...
Viva Pinata one buck on Games for Windows today, Blacklight: Tango Down tomorrow
The Games for Windows platform understands how mercurial our mood can be from day-to-day. Today, the storefront's offering the charming, friendly Viva Piñata for a dollar. According to its RSS feed, it's applying the same discount to the somewhat angrier, shootier Blacklight: Tango Down ...
GoG discounts Longest Journey, other adventure games this weekend
Look, we love Monkey Island, The Dig and all those other classic 2D adventure games just as much as the next guys -- but isn't it time we move into the third dimension? GoG's offering a cheap primer into this brave new world this weekend, halving the cost of four (very depth-filled) adventure ...
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