Weekly News Roundup – DEC 16TH
This week was full of plenty of rumors and some welcome news: Valve is reaching out to gamers to establish some kind of GameFAQs competitor,...
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Why Do Videogame Covers Matter?
There’s been a lot of fuss over the recent Bioshock: Infinite cover, causing the developers to respond by including a reversible cover. It leaves the...
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5 Biggest Videogame Timesinks of 2012
2012 had some of the longest games ever released, if you look past all the shorter iOS applications that became proliferous this year. Being a...
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What Valve’s New Console Means for Gamers
It’s been known for a while that Valve has been building its own PC system, designed for playing Steam games at optimal quality. However, what...
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Will This be the PS4’s Controller?
Although it was patented in 2011, a summary of a combination of a regular Playstation controller and a PS Move controller was just published. Each...
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Why EA Needs to Get its Priorities Straight
Electronic Arts has already made it clear that they are not interested in publishing new IPs for the remainder of this generation, but the logic...
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4 Ways the Wii U Attracts a Hardcore Audience
The Wii U has plenty of redeeming traits that help it compete with other consoles, present and future, and draw in a new crowd that...
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Kickstarter Focus: FIST OF AWESOME
From a developer of Codemasters, Hard Lines, and Carmageddon comes a brand new game on the indie scene: FIST OF AWESOME (it’s even pronounced in...
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Should We Kill Gameplay?
Gameplay has always been the most prominent feature of any game—which is only natural, since it’s what the whole medium focuses on. However, a few...
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Kickstarter Focus: Bloom
Bloom is an upcoming isometric RPG (similar to Bastion) that has a lot of promise when it comes to art, plot, and presentation. The preview...