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Adam Sessler: Fable 2 Will Turn Casual Gamers Into Full Blown Addicts

In the latest edition of Sessler’s Soapbox, X-Play barking head, Adam Sessler, compares Fable 2 to “the ’shrooms of gaming.” He backs off of calling it a “gateway drug” but he does theorize that the kind of gameplay in Fable 2 will catch a few casual Bejeweled players transition from match-three games to consoles. He also drops a reference to throwing his back out while throwing around the big plates at the gym. There is, however, no flexing of the guns. That job belongs to Strauss Zelnick.

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G4TV Investigates The Lack Of Controversy Around GTA IV

No one really got their panties in a wad over the latest iteration of Grand Theft Auto. Well, if you don’t count the Thai government. Adam Sessler and the X-Play crew spoke to a couple of sources, including Cheryl Olson, co-author of Grand Theft Childhood, that look like they could easily fit into the “outraged mom demographic” yet offer some fairly sound reasoning as to why GTA IV came and went without much scandal. Check out one of Will Wright’s one minute vids and Niko Bellic’s world sounds a lot less violent than the Care Bears and far less offensive than life in an anthill. Check the video after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

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