[Every Thursday is Retro Day at Gamer Limit, so kick back and enjoy the classics. Feel free to check out our full schedule right here!]

Bringing awkwardness to another level is this week’s Retro Ad. Who would have thought that combining the annoying kid from E.T. with your friendly local pervert could produce such an uncomfortable 30 seconds?

Hit the jump to see how Intellivision marketers dropped the ball on this one.

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Join myself, Chase, Chris and Shawn as we discuss some of our favorite games of 2009 and the past decade.

Later in the show, marvel at the terrible misogynistic underbelly of the cast as we try to wrap our heads around in-game relationships, and Chase’s inability to satisfy fictional women.

 
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Go buy it?

Pardon my hesitance. Hell, Battlefield 1943 is a lovely little downloadable title, and I tossed a bunch of time into it, running like an idiot across huge maps, driving jeeps into tanks and somehow being surprised at the results, and attempting to take down tanks armed with nothing more than a pistol. All great fun, I assure you, but in a world that now knows the glory of Modern Warfare 2, I can’t help but think that the online community for this is somewhat lacking. But at 600 MS points ($7.50), it might be worth a shot – just don’t expect to play this without some buddies.

Actually, this sale takes me back to the day of my first Battlefield 1943 match, and the hilarity that immediately ensued. Hit the jump to cue the Wayne’s-World-style flashback sequence – one that might just sway your decision.

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Go buy it.

But seriously, Castle Crashers, available exclusively on the Xbox Live Arcade (until The Behemoth decides to port it to the PS3 sometime soon) is an excellent game that everyone should experience: and for today only, it’s $7. Make sure you take advantage of the one day sale, if you haven’t already!

Bioware are sticking to their original promise of two years’ worth of downloadable content for Dragon Age: Origins by officially announcing that the latest instalment will be released next week.

Return to Ostagar will send players back to one of the first locations in the Dragon Age storyline in an effort to “reclaim the secrets lost on that battlefield”.

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Today indie developer Cyanide Studios announced that it’s fantasy football  (as in wizards and goblins, not ‘fantasy football’) game Blood Bowl will be receiving a retail release next year courtesy of publisher SouthPeak Interactive.

While Blood Bowl is current available for the PC via digital distributors like Steam, there has been little mention of the Xbox 360 or PSP release, that is until today. Cyanide announced that the retail copies for the Xbox 360 and PC will arrive next month. The PSP release will come later this spring. Read more… »

As one of the oldest and most venerated genres, puzzle games would appear on the surface to have the greatest potential for stagnation. However, every time it appears we’ve moved on, a new craze shows up to reinvigorate our interest in bite-sized brain benders. From classics, like Tetris to Bejeweled, to the recent crazes of Peggle and Puzzle Quest, the genre continually demonstrates its staying power.

Since the explosion of the casual market, more and more developers are hoping to capitalize on the recent resurgence in the popularity of the genre. With its recent release of Puzzlegeddon on XBLA, developer Pieces Interactive brings some new ideas to the table in the hopes of becoming the next link in the great chain of successful puzzle games.

Does this game live up to its name? Follow me over the jump to discover if playing Puzzlegeddon results in the annihilation of the world in a fiery detonation of multi-colored blocks!

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It seems like every day there are more and more glitches popping up in popular games with outcries of, “Screenshot or it didn’t happen!” and other such cries for proof. The Defend The House Clan, or DTHClan for short, is stepping up to the plate with a series of videos surrounding popular “myths” in the latest addition to the Call of Duty family.

The video explores such things as knifing mirrors in the barber shop and exploding planes with the Predator missile from the game. Some of them are quite outlandish, while others are easy to believe and can finally put the rest the cries of, “That’s not true, because it didn’t happen to me.”

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Friend of the site and Australian based gaming e-zine PixelHunt has just released their latest issue. Packed full of everything from reviews, features, editorials and more, it features content from our very own James O’Connor, as well as a suite of guest writers from “Hyper” and “Critical Distance”.

If that’s not enough for you, the fact that it’s 100% free should. In handy PDF form, it’s perfect for offline reading on your iPhone, Kindle, laptop or other appropriate device. Hell, you could even print it out, bind it, and sift through it on the plane. I have it on good knowledge the PH guys may even do that for a small fee

More information on the issue after the break, or hit the site and download a copy for yourself.

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While most developers are still on holiday, the good folks over at BioWare are hard at work. How do i know this? Today the developer released a new ‘Developer Dispatch’ video discussing Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Specifically this video discusses the design decision behind the game’s dark side characters. Apparently there are two Sith classes, the sorcerer-esque Inquisitor (think Emperor Palpatine) and the Lightsaber welding Sith Warrior à la Darth Vader. According to the video, the Sith Warrior  is you go to guy when it comes to direct confrontation. The Inquisitor, on the other hand, is better suited for the political war.

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Dungeon Crawlers are like the cockroaches of the gaming world (in a good way): despite how archaic they are, they never seem to really die. Considering they were one of the first genres ever created, back when most games were just lines of text, perhaps old fans will never grow tired of them.

Fighting Fantasy is one of the few old-school crawlers released this year. So how did it turn out? Does the new franchise recruit some potential new fans, or does it just stick to the same alienating crawler mechanics that dedicated fans know and love? Read more… »

If you’ve been waiting for the PSN exclusive Fat Princess to make its way onto another gaming system.. then wait no further, if you’re a PSP owner. 360 and Wii owners can lament the newest addition to the Fat Princess family, which will debut on the PSP system some time in 2010.

The new title is dubbed Fat Princess: Fistful of Cake and promises to bring the same frantic gameplay you love on your PS3, onto your handheld, but with a few new additional features even owners of the original game can appreciate.

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