The Last of Us and the Concepts of Tension and Release in Gaming
Tension is one of those things that can make art more meaningful and provide the viewer/listener with a journey through an emotional experience. It was...
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Top Ten Games From E3
Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, blah, blah, blah. Let’s face it, in the end consoles are just expensive, giants blocks of hardware taking up space on our...
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Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo at E3
In less than a week we will be knee-deep in the biggest event of the video game year. The Electronic Entertainment Expo is known providing...
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Xbox One: Figuring Out Microsoft’s Used Game Plan
We’re still fresh on the heels of the outcome of Microsoft’s Xbox One reveal. We’ve had an article detailing an impression of the event, but...
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Are Game Consoles Facing a Glam Band-Like Extinction?
There was something strange that happened in the 1980’s with music, where it kind of felt like anything was possible and there were a lot...
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Stories From Deep Space: EVE Online
Why are video games special? With so many different mediums all vying for a slice of your attention, what can video games offer that film,...
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Retrospective: Valkyria Chronicles Remembered
We started last week’s retrospective by looking at one of the biggest games of this generation, MGS4. This week, we’ll take a look at a...
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Nintendo Can Live Without E3
Here in America, we have a bit of an obsession with pageantry. We don’t simply like to announce things or congratulate people, we like to...
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Guacamelee
As far as indie titles go, the side-scrolling, metroidvania brawler is pretty standard fare. Reiterating on this design time and time again can get boring....
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Still Waiting on the Xbox
With the next generation of consoles impending, the future of Sony has been spelled out in the groundwork the company has laid over the last...
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Always On DRM Could Sink Microsoft’s Xbox 720 Quickly
Fans around the world are waiting for the unveiling from Microsoft of their upcoming console, known as the Xbox 720 or the Durango, with not...
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The Golden Arrow
Some game genres are so refined that there is little call for innovation. JRPG’s, online FPS, Visual novels have swarms of near identical games that...
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BioShock Infinite
‘Is it someone new?’ Four words. Four seemingly innocuous words that, to the average gamer, mean very little. Yet to hardcore fans of the BioShock...
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Dead Space 3: 5 Ways To Improve The Sequel
Dead Space 3 has been a bit of hit and miss with gamers. While it does maintain some identity in relation to the old games,...
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Drakengard 3: 3 Reasons To Be Excited
The recent release of Famitsu over in Japan has dropped a new title in development from Japanese developers Access Games. That game is Drakengard 3....
