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Girl's guide to 10 hottest videogame studs

Bishonen and beefcakes

By MADDY MYERS | December 12, 2008

9. Miguel from Tekken 6
Someone probably should tell Miguel that his style hasn’t been considered attractive since the Zorro movies. Despite his Three Amigos fashion sense, the man’s smoldering visage and taut figure certainly give him potential.

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In a bit of a jam
To suck at an electronic endeavor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, of all places, is analogous to sucking at, say, making soup at cooking school.
Year in Games: Where it's at
This was a strange year for video games.
Review: Prince of Persia
Pauline Kael titled one of her review compilations Kiss Kiss Bang Bang , saying that those four words (from a Japanese movie poster) captured the basic appeal of movies.
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In a bit of a jam
To suck at an electronic endeavor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, of all places, is analogous to sucking at, say, making soup at cooking school.
Year in Games: Where it's at
This was a strange year for video games.
Review: Prince of Persia
Pauline Kael titled one of her review compilations Kiss Kiss Bang Bang , saying that those four words (from a Japanese movie poster) captured the basic appeal of movies.
Guitar Hero: Metallica
At long last, it seems that Guitar Hero has reached a state of equilibrium.
Review: Guitar Hero: Smash Hits
When evaluating a new Guitar Hero — or any music-related game — it helps to picture a Venh Diagram consisting of three circles: "Good Songs," "Challenging Songs," and "Songs that are fun to play on plastic instruments."
Players only
Jessica Smith has spent years booking death-metal shows around Boston. On top of loads of meat-and-potatoes nights at O'Brien's in Allston and Dee Dee's in Quincy, two of her shows — Origin and Malevolent Creation — actually sold out the Middle East upstairs.
Game Review: The Beatles: Rock Band
Can we agree that the music-game market is saturated? To stand out in this crowd, you'd need something special. You'd need the Beatles.
Greatest video-game tragedies of the last decade
Here are some of our favorite anti-victories of the past 10 years, in rough chronological order.
Heroine chic
One of the more satisfying moments in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) occurs when 13-year-old Hermione (Emma Watson) unloads a right hook that staggers the villainous Malfoy. “That felt good,” she says, pleased with herself. “Not good,” offers Ron (Rupert Grint). “Brilliant!”
Game Changer
For the worse part of two decades, Hollywood has been trying to discover the formula for successfully adapting video games to the big screen.
Review: Green Day: Rock Band
Activision has pumped out rhythm games centered on a single band — Aerosmith, Metallica, and Van Halen have all had their own Guitar Hero . Harmonix has offered only The Beatles: Rock Band . Until now.
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The games of winter

ARTICLES BY MADDY MYERS

SPRING THEATER OFFERINGS | March 05, 2012
Boston Playwrights' Theatre closes out its winter season with DEPORTED / A DREAM PLAY (March 8–April 1; bu.edu/bpt).

THE ADDAMS FAMILY MUSICAL TOYS WITH 'REAL' AMERICANS | February 14, 2012
Contained in their haunted-house black humor, Charles Addams's original Addams Family cartoons seemed intended as a sly critique of boring suburbia and an affirmation of quirky, alternative lifestyles.

REVIEW: SOUL CALIBUR V | February 07, 2012
It's time to make some new friends.

REVIEW: FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: THE SACRED STAR OF MILOS | January 17, 2012
The Fullmetal Alchemist series has expanded impressively, from the 2001 graphic novel, to the 2003 anime series and film to the 2009 reboot of the anime, and now Kazuya Murata's film, which picks up from the middle of the second anime reboot.

WARMING UP WITH THE BOSTON THEATER SCENE'S WINTER OFFERINGS | December 29, 2011
Although the whirlwind of Scrooges and Rockettes will soon be exiting stage left, the storm of winter theater continues unabated.

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