I never did play the original Godfather. Although the Wii version lets you choke a b**ch, I just couldn’t get myself interested in what appeared to be a rather average looking game. Maybe it would have been more appealing if I’d seen the movies.

After reading Hamza’s generally positive hands on with the sequel, Godfather II, I have to state that I’m at least starting to get curious about the series. The new crew management and Don’s View sound particularly interesting, but then I’ve always been a sucker for RPG and RTS elements.

Godfather II isn’t coming out until February, so there’s still plenty of time for EA to wow me with new footage and details. Hopefully they won’t cause Anthony any further emotional pain, though.

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Did I study rigorously for the ACT when I was in high school? Hell no. I was far too busy leveling up my party in the .hack// series to read through some boring test prep booklet. Yeah, it probably injured my score somewhat, but the siren song of videogames was just far too strong for me to ignore. Also, I tend to just hate studying in general.

If you happen to care about studying as much as you like playing videogames, and need to take the SAT at some near point in the near future, then Aspyr Media’s futureU might be something to look into. Promising to “sharpen and challenge skills” through a series of mini-games, futureQ sounds rather like a more academically serious Brain Training. Here are the subjects you can anticipate the game to cover:

• Reading: Focuses on refining players’ reading skills, vocabulary, main idea identification, themes and arguments, technique, and recognizing word meanings based on context.
• Writing: Concentrates on improving players’ writing skills by covering topics such as passive voice, run-on sentences, misplaced modifiers, parallelism, conjunctions, fragments, coordination and subordination, pronouns, subject-verb agreement, tenses, adverbs and adjectives, gerunds, idioms, wrong words, and double negatives.
• Math: Enable players to practice critical math areas such as algebra, geometry, data, statistics, probability, polynomials, and sequences.

I find myself doubtful that these educational games could really be all that fun, but if they end up helping some people stomach studying long enough to get into a good college, good for them. futureU is available now for the Computer and Mac at an SRP of $39.99.

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Just a week ago, we brought you news that Electronic Arts’ survival horror title Dead Space had its released pushed forward. This day we have more even superior news: the release date has been pushed up again, this time from October 24 to October 14 on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The Personal computer version will ship on October 20.

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As of today, X-COM: UFO Defense, X-COM: Terror From the Deep, X-COM: Interceptor, X-COM: Enforcer, and X-COM: Apocalypse are all up for grabs on Steam.

Each title will set you back by $4.99 if you purchase them individually, but buying them as a package will run you $14.99. However, if you want to save yourself even more money, get the games now while they’re 10% off in price.

Truth be told, I’ve never played any of the X-COM games before. I know X-COM: UFO Defense is heralded as one of the ideal Personal computer strategy games of all time, but it’s one of those situations where you promise to do something, and then it totally slips your mind about five minutes later.

Think about this a confession to another one of my gaming sins. Now excuse me while I go repent to the gaming gods.

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