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Modern Warfare 2 and its launch have been plagued by quite a few controversies. There was an unfortunate promotional video pulled hours after it was released, there was the terrorist level where the player shoots civilians and we have seen a boycott organized by Direct2Drive initially and then joined by Impulse and G... |
14 November 2009
12:51 GMT |
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2009 has not been a great year for World of Warcraft when it comes to its Chinese operations. Blizzard, the creator of the game, has decided to change the Chinese operator for the MMO from The9 to NetEase, a company that has promised to provide a bigger percentage of earnings as royalties.But the transfer itself was ... |
7 November 2009
11:01 GMT |
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I like playing Batman: Arkham Asylum. It manages to blend intense action, some stealth elements and elements of adventure games in a coherent way while also staying true to what Batman, his nemesis and the Arkham location mean in the universe of comics.Rocksteady has delivered a solid game with easy-to-understand con... |
3 October 2009
10:41 GMT |
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For about two weeks, previously unsubstantiated rumors about a reduction in the price of the Nintendo Wii home gaming console have been getting clear proof. Wal Mart talked about a price rollback for the device, without mentioning the new price. Then, a Toys R Us ad was leaked to the press showing that the price woul... |
19 September 2009
10:21 GMT |
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Two services coming in the next year promise gamers the ability to play the latest titles even though they do not have a top gaming computer. OnLive will be installed as a client and will stream only graphics, sound and movement to the player’s computer while the videogame will be running on a distant server. G... |
12 September 2009
10:41 GMT |
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This week, the people at Beautiful Game Studio, Eidos’s arm in charge of the creation of the Championship Manager franchise after the very public and rather nasty split with Sports Interactive, has announced that until September 10, when the game is set to officially launch, all those who are interested in it c... |
29 August 2009
08:51 GMT |
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Piracy is one of the big, ugly problems of the videogame industry and it mostly affects PC game releases. So, you would think that with the launch of one of the most anticipated PC-only games of the year, Electronic Arts would make sure to limit piracy. Still, The Sims 3, which we have reviewed, got pirated quite a l... |
27 June 2009
06:01 GMT |
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This week, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, mentioned videogaming no less than twice. First, he linked it to the problems of education, saying that one of the reasons for the rise of education quality in countries like China and India is that kids there are playing fewer videogames than those in the ... |
20 June 2009
07:01 GMT |
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The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) was the most important thing this week. It came back to the glamour and sizzle of yesteryear and was filled with big announcements from the top three hardware manufacturers: Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony. But while they waged a battle in terms of new games announced for their re... |
6 June 2009
07:01 GMT |
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The movie-making and gaming industries are becoming closer and closer these days, trying to deliver one all-encompassing experience to the end user, from which the biggest amount of money can be extracted. We see properties being developed from the ground up already including a movie, comic book and, last but not lea... |
16 May 2009
04:01 GMT |
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What once started as an easy way to create enemies for underpowered consoles and other platforms has now become an integral part of our everyday gaming experience. I am of course talking about zombies and how they are now branching their undead presence into almost any type of game and genre of titles. From being ki... |
9 May 2009
07:01 GMT |
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For quite some time, Hollywood has been aware of the gaming industry. At the beginning, it was largely due to the fact that the latter had a lot of stories ready to be picked up by the producers in Los Angeles and turned into blockbusters, which would guarantee a profit, as there was already an established fan base f... |
11 April 2009
06:01 GMT |
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This week we've been subject to a massive hype campaign orchestrated by 2K Games for the next iteration in the BioShock franchise, BioShock 2: Sea of Dreams. While the first game was a true masterpiece in the eyes of many reviewers and critics, the fact that the story was tight and offered closure at the end of ... |
14 March 2009
07:31 GMT |
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Mirror's Edge is one of the most innovative games that were launched last year. It strayed away from the gritty, realistic and, most of all, gray surroundings from almost every other game that appeared alongside it, e.g. Gears of War 2, Resistance 2, etc, and brought us a city filled with vibrant colors and lush... |
31 January 2009
04:01 GMT |
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Despite the fact that the gaming industry is considered by some one of the most creative types of entertainment out there, sometimes such a thing isn't true. While so far we could talk about a steady stream of new ideas and IPs (Intellectual Properties), one that Hollywood certainly seems to like as more and mor... |
24 January 2009
04:01 GMT |
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This is a relatively new game debate that has sparked a lot of controversy and fierce arguments among a lot of industry analysts and experts. On one side, games aim to deliver a more lifelike experience so that players would be able to identify themselves with the characters they are controlling. Things like realisti... |
17 January 2009
06:01 GMT |
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The Grand Theft Auto franchise is probably one of the most popular series of games out there, dominating the sandbox genre for quite some time now. It won over a huge amount of fans with its exciting story and great gameplay, making its developer, Rockstar, one of the most popular in the whole industry.But, as fans e... |
12 December 2008
15:01 GMT |
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Two weeks ago I was writing about the death of the point-and-click adventures, now I'm posting about another dying genre - the fantasy turn-based strategy one. Unlike the adventure games, TBS titles were never very popular, even though some of the most hardcore strategy fans are still surrounded by their hexagon... |
8 August 2008
21:06 GMT |
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Earlier today I wrote a report about how piracy hampered the PC sales of Devil May Cry 4 and that was the moment when I realized that this is probably the most debated topic when it comes to PC gaming: piracy. According to game developers, that's the main reason behind their departure from the old PC systems to ... |
1 August 2008
20:16 GMT |
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I must admit that, ever since I got my hands on Space Quest (the first adventure game I have played) I knew I was going to love this genre forever. Tons of other wonderful titles followed, with LucasArts and Sierra battling for the number one spot in my heart.You probably remember those times, too: the era of Maniac ... |
25 July 2008
20:16 GMT |
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I am not exactly a fan of Nintendo's console. Actually I tend, just like many other hardcore gamers I know, to consider the Wii a console for kids - unworthy of getting my attention, time or passion for games. However, Nintendo's system couldn't care less and sells better than ever, keeping its comfy s... |
12 July 2008
03:31 GMT |
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Grand Theft Auto IV is, according to reviews and sales figures, the best game ever released. When GTA IV was launched, if you remember, it was a complete hysteria, with thousands of people queuing to purchase it, with guys going on vacation, quitting their jobs and God knows what else, just to play it. Yes, it was th... |
4 July 2008
10:41 GMT |
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Spore is that kind of game which makes you want it so bad that it starts hurting when you realize September is still a few months away. Also, with the recently released Creature Creator, Maxis and Electronic Arts have managed to prove once again that we do have all the reasons in the world to count down the days left... |
21 June 2008
03:46 GMT |
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Each gamer has at least one title that he or she will never forget: we can call it The Game. Its name doesn't even matter: we all have at least one title that got us so addicted that we lost countless nights playing it, we probably lost friends, too and recovering was a tough job to do. If you are one of those p... |
14 June 2008
03:36 GMT |
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My name is Bugsy the Clumsy, the superstar of the recently released casual game Sport Dash. Yes, I know, it sounds strange for a guy named like that to have such a job. Actually, the developers wanted to be funny. Or make fun of a clumsy, overweight fella like me, I don't know. Or they just hired me because my s... |
7 June 2008
03:31 GMT |
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Dudes like to predict and analyze stuff (when they're not playing video games, of course). There are people who look into their crystal ball and see when the PlayStation 3 finally beats the Xbox 360, others know exactly when the next-nex-gen consoles are released, when Microsoft introduces Blu-ray support and wh... |
24 May 2008
03:06 GMT |
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The game industry keeps growing, making us, the real gamers, some of the happiest people in the world. Analysts predict that this growing process will never stop, that soon the game industry will be bigger than music or movies - the biggest form of entertainment, actually. Still, there might be a long way before our ... |
17 May 2008
03:41 GMT |
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A few days ago I decided to put an end to my most disgusting habit: smoking and, as expected, most of my friends have rushed in to congratulate me. But the idea for this weekend's reading came after one of my oldest friends (and, at the same time, a guy that never played a video game in his life) told me somethi... |
9 May 2008
19:46 GMT |
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In this real world where prices seem to be absolutely obscene sometimes, people love free things and anything is way better than the rest - as long as it is free. It's about the same in the ever-growing games world: we have the hardcore "free game" hunters, the occasional "free game" hunters and the beginners, t... |
2 May 2008
11:36 GMT |
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There are no reasons to doubt the fact that the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto will be a true phenomenon and the game world will be changed - at least slightly - in a good way when it comes to open world gameplay, game world complexity and so many more other things (including the way the perfect game should loo... |
26 April 2008
05:51 GMT |
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Games tend to be some tough bunches of pixels that can drive you completely mad with their zany, difficult levels/monsters/whatever. Ostracism and torture in the medieval times were nothing but little angels compared to the hell of pressing, for the hundredth time, the "retry" button. What does the regular gamer do i... |
18 April 2008
20:06 GMT |
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Strange, but the love for video games doesn't work like real life: it's not the first ever game you fall in love with while playing it, nor the first loading screen on which you see the one you'll always remember. Different reasons are involved, some of them stranger than the real thing. Just a random ... |
11 April 2008
20:06 GMT |
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What should I get? A PC, a console or a ping pong table? What will win this war? Well, I'm pretty sure that the answer to that question will be provided in 2009 when all the major publishers will either go slow on consoles or start focusing more on the PC, or they'll shift gears and go full throttle into th... |
4 April 2008
20:06 GMT |
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These girls are sexy, they’re hot and they have an instant drooling effect on any human male, level 15-80, who is watching them. These are the same girls who made you love them the way only a game-geek can love: truly, madly, deeply. However, they have one big flaw: they are game characters. They are not real, they a... |
28 March 2008
22:06 GMT |
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Probably half of the gaming world will hate me for saying this, but somebody has to do it. Mario, Sonic, Luigi, Wario, Dr. Eggman and all the other arcade/platformer icons should retire! Each and every one of them should be put in a museum and locked there. That's the only way to do it, that's the only thi... |
14 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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This is not your regular World of Warcraft news flash - it's rather the sad story of an unlucky king, a man... uhm... an undead destined for greater glory, level 50 monster hacking - a fearsome undead in the ever growing World of Warcraft - that was never meant to be. Instead, this great cavalier of the apocalyp... |
7 March 2008
06:18 GMT |
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