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The biggest first person shooters of the fall are now out and gamers can now pick up both Battlefield 3, from Swedish studio DICE and publisher Electronic Arts, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, from Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer Games and Raven with publishing handled by Activision, and measure the quality for thems... |
19 November 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Drive, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan, might be the best movie that I have seen this year and one of the most well directed, acted and constructed that I have watched in my life (and I must confess I average about 5 movies during one weekend when I have nothing else to d... |
12 November 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Grand Theft Auto V, probably one of the biggest gaming reveals of the year, has finally seen its first trailer be released earlier this week. Since then, Rockstar Games, its developer and publisher, has published a few more details, but there are still a huge amount of questions left unanswered.Luckily, in true Rocks... |
5 November 2011
10:01 GMT |
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A lot happened at Blizzcon this year and most of the talk has been focused around the Mists of Pandaria expansion for World of Warcraft, mostly the pretty radical ways in which it will change the MMO, and around Starcraft II, mostly the new units and how the mod oriented Marketplace will work.But the one piece of new... |
5 November 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Grand Theft Auto V is coming, but we already knew that for quite some time. Now, however, it's official, with Rockstar counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds before it unleashes the first trailer and details about its new game.Until this week, when the logo for the game was presented, there were quit... |
29 October 2011
08:31 GMT |
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I write a lot about video games and, often, I end an article by telling potential players about the platforms on which the titles will appear and about the day when the product will be available on store shelves.I almost always write down two launch dates, one for North America and the other one for Europe and, almos... |
29 October 2011
06:11 GMT |
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The iPad and its successor are dominating the tablet market at the moment and many other developers, including the mighty HP, seem to have given up on assaulting that entrenched position but with the announcement of the Kindle Fire, which took place a few weeks ago, Amazon seems to be ready to take up this challenge ... |
22 October 2011
07:01 GMT |
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I reviewed FIFA 12 for Softpedia a few weeks earlier and have given it close to perfect scores, admitting that the football simulation might just be the most polished installment in a yearly series to launch during 2011.The game is not without faults and there are numerous small improvements that can be done on the m... |
15 October 2011
06:11 GMT |
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After a very long wait, which included rumors about further delays, the developers at the Austin studio of BioWare and the executives at publisher Electronic Arts have announced that Star Wars: The Old Republic will be launched this year, on December 20 in the United States and two days later in Europe.This is good n... |
8 October 2011
05:41 GMT |
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One piece of news that recently popped up on a few sites talked about how researchers at the University of Washington were helped in crucial research linked to the development of better medicine to fight AIDS by gamers who used the Foldit online video game.The mechanics of the game are pretty simple and allow any pla... |
1 October 2011
05:01 GMT |
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The gaming industry is the latest and probably the fastest growing one in the whole entertainment genre, but, sadly, this increase of importance also means that publishers and developers are investing heavily in new games and don't really want to take risks when tens of millions of dollars are at stake.That'... |
24 September 2011
08:21 GMT |
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At the Tokyo Games Show, an event that can be considered home ground for Nintendo, the company doubled down on its 3DS bet and made a number of announcements that show the support for the platform and show how committed Nintendo is to make the device is success in the long term.First off Nintendo sought to make clear... |
24 September 2011
08:11 GMT |
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Microsoft has taken a big step towards its next PC operating system, Windows 8, by deploying a Developer Preview version earlier this week, showcasing to everyone interested just what are the biggest features in the new OS.
As you probably saw in our special article about gaming on Windows 8, it's pretty much... |
17 September 2011
08:31 GMT |
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I am one of the latecomers to Facebook, one of the people that was reluctant to sign up for the service fearing that it would take up too much of my time, that I would need to talk to too many people I barely know and that I would be overwhelmed by the information offered by friends.I finally signed up in order to pl... |
10 September 2011
05:01 GMT |
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I can remember writing the news story about The Lord of the Rings Online going free-to-play and wondering how long it will take before the Turbine made MMO is closed down and the business model again retreats to the peculiar games of the Far East.I also remember writing news about how well The Lord of the Rings Onlin... |
3 September 2011
02:31 GMT |
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The last week has been dominated by an ongoing debate over an excerpt in the EULA (End User License Agreement) of Electronic Arts' new Origin digital distribution service, which will be mandatory for PC gamers who want to play all the upcoming titles from the company, like Battlefield 3 or Need for Speed: The Ru... |
27 August 2011
08:21 GMT |
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Nintendo took the unprecedented step of cutting the price of the 3DS handheld, launched just this year, by between 30 and 40 percent depending on the territory in order to revive falling sales.
Sony seems to be starting a tradition by announcing yet another price cut for the PlayStation 3 home console at the Games... |
27 August 2011
06:01 GMT |
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Nintendo has cut the price of the Nintendo 3DS handheld by a third on all the markets to 169.99 dollars and, considering that the platform is available starting with the middle of March, this is the fastest after launch price cut in the history of video game hardware.Nintendo also gave out 20 video games to those who... |
20 August 2011
04:31 GMT |
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This week those who were excited about the new Legacy DLC for Dragon Age II and wanted to log into Steam in order to buy both the original game and the additional content must have been a little upset and surprised to see that the game was no longer there.As a result they needed to use another service to get both Dra... |
13 August 2011
06:31 GMT |
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Fans of Diablo III and of PC gaming, which developer Blizzard has long been a champion of, might have been prepared for an announcement that the game requires a continuous connection to the Internet, considering that it was already a requirement for Starcraft II, and for the fact that real money could be used to buy ... |
5 August 2011
08:41 GMT |
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For the first time in the Mass Effect series, the developer, BioWare, has decided to officially promote and market to the world a female version of the protagonist, Commander Shepard, alongside the already famous male version.
As you can imagine, given the wide customization options the studio gave to players, the... |
31 July 2011
03:41 GMT |
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Nintendo launched the 3DS handheld console in February for the Japanese market and in March for the North American and European ones, setting a pretty steep $250 price tag. Now, as we saw earlier this week, the Japanese company has slashed over a third of that price, making the portable device available for $169.99.
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30 July 2011
07:41 GMT |
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I was always a strategy gamer first and one of the biggest complaints I have when looking at the current gaming landscape is that there are less and less big strategy titles coming out as the years pass me by.
And, if the statements of one studio executive are to go by, the situation might become even worse in the... |
30 July 2011
05:11 GMT |
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I have been playing quite a bit of Pro Cycling Manager 2011 and I love the way he game managed to mix pure simulation of the role of a team manager in cycling, with finances, sponsors, training schedules and race management all on the table, with the actual handling of the actual races, with decisions about attacking... |
23 July 2011
05:51 GMT |
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Summer is not good for gaming and from late June to late August the big publishers avoid launching any significant title, with the more hardcore of console gamers having to subside on a thin gruel of summer blockbuster tie-ins and indie games launched on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network.
But it seems to me th... |
16 July 2011
03:11 GMT |
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How many save games does a player use? It certainly depends on the type of video game he is playing and on the difficulty, on the device he is playing on (there are certain PC titles that can be described as crash happy) and on how worried he is that he will have to redo a part of the game if and when he screws up.
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9 July 2011
05:51 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has put together a new digital distribution service, called Origin, and the interests of the publisher are now on a clear collision course with those of Steam, the Valve-created dominant force on the PC market, with the results probably bad for gaming, bad for the PC space and for most of the players.... |
2 July 2011
05:51 GMT |
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One of the main criticism that has been hurled at video gaming since the early '90's is that they only serve as time wasters, especially for young players, and that they do not impart any skills in return and do not teach them anything.Time wasted on video games is often pitted against the time that could b... |
25 June 2011
05:31 GMT |
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After the end of the E3 2011 conference and the flood of news that appeared from the expo, gamers found a new reason to get angry this week, as Electronic Arts and DICE decided to offer a special Physical Warfare pack to those who pre-order Battlefield 3, besides the already-known Back to Karkand downloadable map pac... |
18 June 2011
07:21 GMT |
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I went to the 2011 edition of the E3 trade show and I came away impressed by a lot of the games that I saw but, after a few days of thinking about the expo and about what's to come in terms of video games, I really think that this is a video game industry that is headed for a big crisis soon.And it's mainly... |
18 June 2011
06:01 GMT |
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The E3 2011 conference has just closed its doors in the lovely Los Angeles, and, just like usual, the gaming media is debating over which company actually "won" E3 by making the biggest announcements and capturing the attention of all attendants.Last year, it was a pretty cut and dry affair, with Microsoft and Sony p... |
11 June 2011
07:40 GMT |
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Valve's Gabe Newell is one of the video game personalities that as leader of his studio, as a designer and public speaker, gets a lot of attention from the gaming world.One of the reasons is that his company has managed to constantly launch very good and, at the same time, innovative games, form the first Half L... |
4 June 2011
05:51 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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With the PlayStation Network now back up and working, apparently with improved security measures that should prevent any attacks like those of April 20 from taking place again, and Sony is now facing the task of making sure that the security issues and communications problems it has since had do not lead to an exodus... |
28 May 2011
05:01 GMT |
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Without a doubt one of the biggest gaming-related things to appear this week was the first actual trailer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the next installment in Activision's hugely successful first-person shooter series.
While I don't have any doubts that the game will once again set new sales recor... |
27 May 2011
10:01 GMT |
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A set of recent leaks about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, including significant plot details about the single player campaign and quite a bit of information on the game modes and maps for the multiplayer side, has made it pretty clear what fans of the first-person shooter series can expect on the rumored launch dat... |
21 May 2011
05:31 GMT |
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This week Microsoft has confirmed that it had acquired communications company Skype and that it plans to deploy the service on platform like Windows-powered PCs and the Xbox Live service for the Xbox 360 home console.
Recently, Microsoft has also made a lot of noise, not all of it actually backed by actions, bein... |
14 May 2011
05:21 GMT |
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The PlayStation Network has been attacked and the unknown assailants have managed to penetrate the security of the service and have obtained access to the personal details, ranging from identity to credit card information, of a huge number of users.
Sony is working frantically to identify the perpetrators and to m... |
7 May 2011
07:01 GMT |
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Without a doubt this week's most important issue for gamers, at least PS3 or PSP owners, was the ongoing PlayStation Network outage, which arrived after a group of hackers compromised Sony's online service and might even have stolen the personal data of the 70+ million PSN users.As you can imagine, it'... |
30 April 2011
08:01 GMT |
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Barely was Portal 2 released at the beginning of the week and some gamers already managed to find things wrong with it and decided that the best way to fight back against this seemingly inferior game was to bombard its Metacritic page with low scores, taking the average to around 5.0 out of 10.
This went against t... |
23 April 2011
12:11 GMT |
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I have just mastered a corner in Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed, which means I got a bit of extra experience for my driver, got a bit closer to the next level and also turned a section of the track I am currently racing on green from drab gray.
A few hours later I will hear a little ding and a gold-covered anno... |
23 April 2011
07:21 GMT |
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Many people laughed when Nintendo officially launched the Wii home console, largely because they just looked at it from a hardware point of view.
The Wii was basically just a glorified version of the older GameCube, with support for motion controls, through the Wii Remote, but without any of the graphical power or... |
16 April 2011
13:01 GMT |
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I liked the new Total War: Shogun 2 very much, as you can read from my review and my set of Gamer Diaries, and I have also gone back and played a bit of Medieval 2 and Rome: Total War during the last few weeks, losing myself once again in the thick historical “what if” situations that the games manage to ... |
16 April 2011
10:11 GMT |
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Before the weekend, we published a new piece of information about id Software's Rage, which said that the combination between a first-person shooter, a racing game and a role-playing game, would take around 15 hours to complete.
As you can imagine, the feelings are mixed and have once again contributed to the... |
9 April 2011
10:01 GMT |
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A few days after the launch of Dragon Age 2, the latest role-playing game offering from developer BioWare, the publisher Electronic Arts has also launched Dragon Age: Legends, a game that is played on Facebook and uses the free-to-play and microtransaction business model.
I gave my initial impression on Dragon Age... |
9 April 2011
08:31 GMT |
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I am the type of gamer that mainly enjoys strategy, turn-based when possible, and role playing games, from a Western developer mostly, and in a way Dragon Age: Origins managed to hit both those spots for me, with the role playing some of the best I've seen and combat that could be easily broken into turns, with ... |
2 April 2011
07:41 GMT |
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How long can you go on playing Killzone 3 for? I played it for more than 12 hours, both single and multiplayer since getting the game towards the end of last week and I plan to play it all through this week too. What if we changed the game? How long can a gamer play Gran Turismo 5? How long can someone engage with a... |
26 March 2011
06:21 GMT |
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I like the narrative and the way it progresses better in Origins than in Dragon Age 2 and, while my review proves that I enjoyed the sequel, I would have liked the developers at BioWare to have taken more time in order to create a more complex and choice-laden story.
One area where I feel that Dragon Age 2 shines ... |
19 March 2011
09:11 GMT |
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There are two big strategy-minded titles that are arriving during the first two weeks of March, with Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Retribution bringing six way conflict to players at first and then to Total War: Shogun 2, taking fans of historical warfare back to Japan for another round of swords versus bo... |
12 March 2011
07:01 GMT |
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It's now official that video game publisher Electronic Arts, with a new development studio called Victory Games, is going to create and release a new game in the Command & Conquer franchise, after pronouncing it utterly dead after the release of the fourth game.
I loved the Command & Conquer games and I am in... |
5 March 2011
07:01 GMT |
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