In Real Life

Terrible Gaming Gifts For The People You Hate

The Holidays are upon us; Chanukah is underway, Christmas is almost here, and it’s time to get those last-minute gifts. We’ve given you ideas for people who already have all the games they want, for people who like science and other thinky pursuits, and for your teenage son who seems pretty normal but who you don’t talk to. All those lists, and so many more.


July 27, 2011
News

The Video Game That Wants To Invade Mexico

A video game built around an investigation into a series of brazen attacks by a Mexican drug cartel, which culminates in an attack on US soil, may sound like a timely take on the escalating violence in United States’ border towns.


July 14, 2011
News

Call Of Juarez Multiplayer Has Plenty Of Drug Dealers And Cops, But Not One Horse

I’m still trying to absorb the fact that after making my favourite of the Call of Juarez games, developer Techland decided to shift the entire franchise from the old west to modern times and make it about drug dealing.


April 28, 2011
PC

Call Of Juarez: The Cartel Trailer Reveals They’ve Got Strippers Too

Ubisoft’s new Call of Juarez game, the one that features modern day cowboys and a Mexican drug war, has a new trailer, full of adult language, graphic violence, strip clubs, cockblocks and other things that may render it NSFW.


March 4, 2011
PC

Three Heroes Converge In Call Of Juarez: The Cartel

Ubisoft’s controversial third entry in the Call of Juarez series tells the story of three very different above-the-law heroes, and players can step into the shoes of any one of them, both online and off.


February 22, 2011
PlayStation

Mexican State Calls For A Ban On Call Of Juarez: The Cartel

After officials in El Paso, Texas, made their discomfort over Call of Juarez: The Cartel last week, the Mexican state of Chihuahua is asking Federal authorities for an outright ban on the video game that hits too close to home.


February 18, 2011
PlayStation

A Western Trilogy Arrives Too Soon For Those Caught In Drug Violence

“Call of Juarez” wasn’t a provocative title, when it referred to the Mexican border town during the Old West. As the modern-day scene of more than 3,000 murders in the past year, it’s a touchier subject.


September 22, 2009
News

Call Of Juarez Gets Custom Shootout Creator

You know, for all its flaws—and the game had many—I still enjoyed Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood. So I’ll be dusting it off now that a level creator is on the way.


July 17, 2009
In Real Life

Houston Chronicle: Video Game Racism “The New Norm”?

No, not that guy. Norm, as in, status quo. As in, we’ve masticated the shooting-black-people argument in Resident Evil 5, now let’s pile on Call of Juarez and an unreleased game for good measure.


July 6, 2009
News

DLC Bound For Bound In Blood

Techland, the developer of Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, announced three pieces of DLC are on the way but few other details. Two will be multiplayer maps, the third is for the singleplayer mode.