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It's the week before the E3 industry trade show, which usually means little in the way of very important news as everybody is keeping their powder dry for the floor and press conferences, but we still managed to post a Quick Look for Dungeons & Dragons – Daggerdale, one for Hunted: The Demon's Forge a... |
5 June 2011
06:01 GMT |
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This week we have been review happy here at the Games section of Softpedia, delivering lengthy evaluation of Brink, the multiplayer-oriented title from Splash Damage and Bethesda, of SEGA Rally Online Arcade and, finally, of The Witcher 2, the role-playing game from CD Projekt RED.
And if you like to read about Th... |
29 May 2011
08:21 GMT |
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It's been a big week for gaming and especially for those who are in love with the first-person shooter genre as a very big information dump from inside developer Infinity Ward showing what the team was doing with the single-player portion of the game and what additions are coming to the multiplayer side. On the... |
22 May 2011
05:31 GMT |
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The week that passed us by continues to be dominated by the ongoing problems with the PlayStation Network, but our attention here at Softpedia was focused on the next Call of Duty and on a recent release, The First Templar, for which we have a full review. We also reviewed MotorStorm Apocalypse, the quake delayed di... |
15 May 2011
08:51 GMT |
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It's been another busy week for gamers around the world, as Sony was struck by another hacker attack, Nintendo made a price cut to its Wii and EA made quite a few announcements.
First off, we took a quick look at The First Templar this week, complete with a gameplay video of the action adventure title, and yo... |
8 May 2011
05:31 GMT |
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It's been a pretty hectic week for gamers, especially PlayStation 3 or PlayStation Portable owners, who still couldn't access the PlayStation Network, but did manage to finally find out some details from Sony itself about the problem.First up, however, you can enjoy our ongoing Gamer Diary series focusing o... |
1 May 2011
05:11 GMT |
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Portal 2 is the biggest launch of the week, with the entire Potato based alternate reality mode making the community excited long before the actual launch of the game, and we at Softpedia managed to take a Quick Look at the game before delivering a full review for the latest offering from Valve.We also put up a Quick... |
24 April 2011
09:51 GMT |
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This week we managed to put up a full review for Yakuza 4, a video game which includes a variety of Japanese themes and is pretty different from the Western action adventure genre, and also a Quick Look at Darkest Hour, a strategy title that is created using the Europa engine and makes World War I an attractive econo... |
17 April 2011
08:41 GMT |
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The big launch month of March is now behind us, which means that we had time to look a little closer at games like Crysis 2, the shooter from Crytek, for which we have a full Softpedia review and a set of Gamer Diaries, and Shogun 2: Total War, which also has some new Diaries. We also have both an early Quick Look a... |
10 April 2011
10:31 GMT |
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Another week has passed and we have a new series of diaries, linked to Total War: Shogun 2, the strategy game from SEGA and The Creative Assembly, and Crysis 2, from Crytek and Electronic Arts.We also have a Weekend Reading feature that talks about how the Dragon Age series, no matter how it might progress, needs to ... |
3 April 2011
09:31 GMT |
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This week was all torn between strategic movement and tactical battles, which means we have a full review of Total War: Shogun 2, the latest game from The Creative Assembly and publisher SEGA.
We also found time for some North Korean future conflict, with a full review of Homefront.
The THQ shooter also receive... |
27 March 2011
09:41 GMT |
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This week Dragon Age 2, the role-playing and action mix between BioWare and Electronic Arts, was still the main game being played here at Softpedia, but Total War: Shogun 2, from SEGA and The Creative Assembly, also made an appearance and will get more heavy play this weekend.We have a full review of Dragon Age 2 for... |
20 March 2011
10:21 GMT |
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The video game that took up most of my time this week was Dawn of War II: Retribution, the new strategy game from Relic and THQ, which got a review from Softpedia and a series of Gamer Diaries.We also have a review for the High Definition remake of Beyond Good & Evil and have started a new set of diaries that focus o... |
13 March 2011
08:41 GMT |
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This week, two first-person shooters grabbed most of the space in the Gaming section of Softpedia, with reviews delivered for both Bulletstorm, the more experimental game from People Can Fly and Electronic Arts, and for Killzone 3, the more traditional shooter from Guerrilla Games and Sony.We also have a set of Gamer... |
6 March 2011
06:01 GMT |
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It's been a busy week for gamers, with two long-awaited video game demos, for the role-playing game Dragon Age 2 and the strategy Total War: Shogun 2, finally going live, and we have Demo Look articles for both of them, detailing our early impressions of the games.
We also have a One Hour With article and a Q... |
27 February 2011
07:11 GMT |
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We've returned to the Incoming 2011 series this week, previewing some of the most important video game launches that will be happening this year, but we also have a Quick Look for the free-to-play and browser-based Battlestar Galactica Online.We also reviewed Stacking, the latest game from Tim Schafer.Our Weeken... |
20 February 2011
08:01 GMT |
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It's an unlucky day for some, but it's been a good week for us here at Softpedia, with a review out about Magicka, the charming yet a bit messy free form wizardry video game from Paradox Interactive and Arrowhead Games, and a new series of Gamer Diaries linked to Dead Space 2.
We also have a review for S... |
13 February 2011
07:01 GMT |
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This week our gaming hours were spent on Dead Space 2, the horror shooter from Visceral and Electronic Arts, and we have both a full review to show for all our effort and a strong of Game Diaries detailing some aspects of the game, like the coherence of the setting and Clarke's voice acting.
We also posted a ... |
6 February 2011
08:31 GMT |
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We have two Weekend Reading features this time around, one focusing on the need for a second hand market which includes big publishers and another talking about the impact that the impending launches of the PlayStation Portable 2 from Sony and the Nintendo 3DS will have on the video game world this year. We also con... |
30 January 2011
06:11 GMT |
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This week we launched a new series of articles, Incoming 2011, that are taking quick and dirty looks at the biggest video games that are set to arrive during this year and at their importance to the medium of video gaming.
We also have a review of King Arthur – The Druids, the new expansion for the Total War... |
23 January 2011
09:11 GMT |
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Another 2011 week has passed and we've been playing the first new games of the year, which we will talk about next week, when Dead Space 2 and Little Big Planet 2 are also set to arrive. In the meantime we took a trip on nostalgia lane and posted a set of Gamer Diaries that are linked to Left 4 Dead 2 and the z... |
16 January 2011
08:41 GMT |
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It's the first week of a gaming year and things are pretty quiet at the moment as most people are still looking back on the best games of 2010 and going through their backlog while awaiting to see how the first titles that came out this year perform in late January. For those who like to look forward, we have a... |
9 January 2011
07:31 GMT |
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By the time you are reading this, it's already the second day of January 2011, a new and possibly great year for gaming.
But to start it off, you could do worse than reading a Weekend Reading piece about what could happen in the next 360 and change days and an EndWeekGame segment about how we will begin out g... |
2 January 2011
07:51 GMT |
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It's been fairly quiet on the gaming front lately, as 2010 is drawing to an end and gamers are already looking to the launch packed first few months of next year, which will bring us, in “Second Christmas” fashion, Dead Space 2, Dragon Age 2 and a host of other titles.
But, we still managed to del... |
26 December 2010
08:21 GMT |
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This week, we have begun offering our opinions on the most interesting video game releases of the year that is about to end in a Game of the Year 2010 titled series which so far has highlighted stories, surprises, racing game and strategy titles.But we also found the time to play and deliver a full-fledged review for... |
19 December 2010
12:21 GMT |
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This week has been somewhat dominated by World of Warcraft, but not necessarily by the launch of the new Cataclysm expansion for the MMO, with Blizzard attracting more attention because of its long-time plans, which have been revealed via a leaked document coming from the Chinese division of the developer.
And the... |
12 December 2010
05:31 GMT |
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This week has been dominated by the spirit of speed as embodied in the fast cars of Gran Turismo 5, the Polyphony Digital and Sony release which got a full review on Softpedia and a series of Game Diaries, and of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, the Criterion and Electronic Arts title which also got reviewed.And between ... |
5 December 2010
08:51 GMT |
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This week we have three significant reviews: one for the shooter Vanquish, from developers Platinum Games and publisher SEGA, another for the engrossing Football Manager 2011, the well known management simulation series from Sports Interactive, and one for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, the new game in the third... |
28 November 2010
06:11 GMT |
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This week has been dominated by the full review of Call of Duty: Black Ops, the best selling first person shooter from Treyarch and Activision, and by the Gamer Diaries we have created, talking about different aspects of the game.We also found time for a Weekend Reading feature which talks about how history enables a... |
21 November 2010
10:41 GMT |
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This week was dominated by the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops, which is already showing signs of becoming the biggest video game and, apparently, entertainment launch of the year, and we have a One Hour With piece about the game and have started a series of Gamer Diaries.But we also managed to squeeze in a review ... |
14 November 2010
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It's been a very busy week at Softpedia, as we posted two reviews, one for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 and the other for Lego Universe, not to mention a quick look at James Bond Blood Stone 007.For those that want more reading material, we also posted a Weekend Reading piece about next week's Call of D... |
7 November 2010
06:01 GMT |
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Our big gaming obsession this week has been Fallout: New Vegas, the post apocalyptic role playing action mix from developer Obsidian and publisher Bethesda, which got a series of Gamer Diaries and a full review.But we also had time to talk about Lionheart: Kings' Crusade and create a Weekend Reading feature abou... |
31 October 2010
12:21 GMT |
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We've got two big reviews, for Medal of Honor and for Enslaved: Odissey to the West, this week but we also had time to deliver a Weekend Reading feature based around how close first person shooters can come to a real world conflict and an EndWeekGame piece detailing our habits for the two days when we'... |
24 October 2010
12:21 GMT |
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This week we were pretty busy here at Softpedia, and we not only published two reviews, for Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light and Civilization V, but also a One Hour With Medal of Honor, in order to see if the new shooter is any good and a quick look at Enslaved: Odyssey to the West.We also have a series of diarie... |
17 October 2010
05:01 GMT |
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It's been another busy fall week at Softpedia, with the PC version of Darksiders getting a full review, alongside the high flying H.A.W.X. 2 from Ubisoft, and with a Quick Look of the zombie filled Dead Rising 2 and one aimed at Lionheart.But we also have a Gamer Diary series for Civilization V focusing on the t... |
10 October 2010
08:51 GMT |
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It's been another busy fall week at Softpedia, with the PC version of Darksiders getting a full review, alongside the high flying H.A.W.X. 2 from Ubisoft, and with a Quick Look of the zombie filled Dead Rising 2 and one aimed at Lionheart.But we also have a Gamer Diary series for Civilization V focusing on the t... |
10 October 2010
08:51 GMT |
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This week has been dominated by a lot of Halo: Reach play, which lead to four gaming diaries and to a review about the final game that Bungie has created in the well known Xbox 360 exclusive series.But we also found the time for a Quick Look at Civilization V, the addictive turn based experience from Firaxis and Sid ... |
3 October 2010
09:41 GMT |
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It's been a shorter than usual week here at Softpedia and a busy one, with both H.A.W.X. 2 from Ubisoft and Halo: Reach getting plenty of play time, as exemplified by two Quick Looks and one Gamer Diary talking about the overall feel of the two titles.And for those who love to read about video games we also have... |
26 September 2010
09:41 GMT |
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This week has been dominated by the launch of Halo: Reach, the final Bungie made video game in the long running series, but there's have been other pieces of news that were prominent enough to make it into this recap.And if you are interested in more video games themed reading you can see a review of the World W... |
19 September 2010
08:51 GMT |
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Another week is wrapping up here at Softpedia and we've got quite a bit of reading material to send your way, beginning with a review of the recently released Mafia II, one video game that has been getting a mixed welcome from players.We also have a Weekend Reading piece focusing on the evolving relationship bet... |
12 September 2010
10:01 GMT |
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This has been the first (partial) week of the fall and that means that big launches like Halo: Reach and Civilization V and Call of Duty: Black Ops are just around the corner.But until then we have a Weekend Reading feature talking about how publishers should split the single player and the multiplayer in upcoming vi... |
5 September 2010
10:21 GMT |
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It's been a less busy week, after the organized chaos of Gamescom but we still have a list of all the most interesting news of the past seven days and more than that for intrepid readers.The Weekend Reading piece talks about how the huge amount of big video games launched during the fall means that all gaming is... |
29 August 2010
14:01 GMT |
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This week was dominated by the 2010 edition of Gamescom, the biggest European gaming event, taking place in Köln, Germany. We have had the chance to be there and bring you the latest news and hands on reports about the games that are in development at the biggest publishers in the world. Despite the limited... |
22 August 2010
07:01 GMT |
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It's been another week dominated by Starcraft 2 wins and losses in multiplayer but we had the time to put together a Weekend Reading segment about how 3D can find a living home on the PC through the efforts of companies like Nvidia and a EndWeekGame article talking about what titles we spent time with this weeke... |
15 August 2010
08:11 GMT |
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This week, like the last one, was dominated by Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, with some more gamer diaries to show for all the time spent with Blizzard's latest. But we also found bit of time to craft a Weekend Reading feature that talks how Heart of the Swarm needs to take some chances and an EndWeekGame artic... |
8 August 2010
08:51 GMT |
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It's been an important few days for gamers as Blizzard finally launched the first part of the Starcraft 2 saga, named Wings of Liberty, and we got to play it. We have a gamer diary about the new real time strategy title and a full review here at Softpedia. But we also found the time to create a Weekend Reading p... |
1 August 2010
09:21 GMT |
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This week was marked by Blizzard's decision to actually renounce its initiative of linking forum posting from players of Starcraft II and World of Warcraft with their real names, after a flurry of opposition from gamers. But there are other news that are worth parsing and for those who are interested in more opi... |
18 July 2010
10:01 GMT |
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It's been a busy week here at Softpedia. We have a review of Singularity up, complete with a series of gamer diaries, and a look at Tales of Monkey Island: LeChuck's Revenge, the revival of the classic adventure series. We've also put up a Weekend Reading piece talking about how hard it is for shooters... |
11 July 2010
10:31 GMT |
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This week, we took a close look at the way Ubisoft revitalized the Prince of Persia series with The Forgotten Sands, with both a review of the title and a series of game diaries offered to those who want to know more about it. We also have a review of the fresh Magic the Gathering game on Xbox Live Arcade and Steam a... |
4 July 2010
09:01 GMT |
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We're relaxing a little after the week of the E3 trade show but that does not mean there is no videogaming-related news to report. We managed to think up an EndWeekGame piece, featuring an iPhone, Singularity and Hearts of Iron 3, and a Weekend Reading piece, focused on how three-dimensional gaming is not actual... |
27 June 2010
03:31 GMT |
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