• The Walking Dead Season 2: 5 Improvements Needed

    TellTale have already announced that a second season of their hit game, The Walking Dead, will be releasing some time in the future. This shouldn’t...

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    TellTale have already announced that a second season of their hit game, The Walking Dead, will be releasing some time in the future. This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, given the amount of popularity the game garnered from critics and gamers alike. Sequels tend to be hard beasts to create though, as developers need...
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  • The New Infinity Ward’s Chance to Shine With Call of Duty: Ghosts

    Infinity Ward have had a bit of a storied past, as the original team that introduced the world to Call of Duty and who have...

    Infinity Ward have had a bit of a storied past, as the original team that introduced the world to Call of Duty and who have created a bunch of games in the series since then. Call of Duty really took the world of gaming by storm by bringing a fast-paced style of gameplay to the...
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  • Bioshock Infinite: 5 Reasons It Will Be Great

    Releasing in just a few days time, Bioshock Infinite will be one of 2013’s biggest releases in the gaming world. Many gamers have been eagerly...

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    Releasing in just a few days time, Bioshock Infinite will be one of 2013’s biggest releases in the gaming world. Many gamers have been eagerly awaiting the game ever since it was announced. Some speculated that it was going to release last year, but for good or bad, we’ve had to wait until the end...
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  • Episodic Gaming: Is It The Future?

    With the recent success of Telltale’s The Walking Dead video game, people are starting to wonder if episodic content is the future of gaming. Truth...

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    With the recent success of Telltale’s The Walking Dead video game, people are starting to wonder if episodic content is the future of gaming. Truth be told, even full priced games such as the Mass Effect series are pretty much episodic in terms of story. They work in much the same way, you drag the...
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  • Why EA’s SimCity Apology Games Are Gross

    Yesterday EA released the games that they will be giving to SimCity players for all the server hiccups (or heart failures) that the game has...

    Yesterday EA released the games that they will be giving to SimCity players for all the server hiccups (or heart failures) that the game has had since launch.  In the article I wrote last week about the SimCity debacle, I suspected a lackluster list of games that would be dispensed by EA and when I...
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  • Gears of War: Judgement

    As of September 2011, The Gears of War trilogy had successfully bowed out on a high. It tore its hefty chainsaw-lancer through the wallets of...

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    As of September 2011, The Gears of War trilogy had successfully bowed out on a high. It tore its hefty chainsaw-lancer through the wallets of gamers worldwide but in the process it seemed to reach its own limitations and exhaust how far Epic Games could take sci-fi third-person shooter genre. On a personal note, I...
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  • Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm

    Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty quickly became one of the most popular RTS games in history, as well as a huge platform for competitive gaming....

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    Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty quickly became one of the most popular RTS games in history, as well as a huge platform for competitive gaming. This set the stage for Starcraft 2’s second installment, Heart of the Swarm. With as huge a following that Starcraft has as both a story, as well as an eSport,...
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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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    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, steadily the Dead Space series has been moving away from its initial survival horror roots. The games have tended to become more action oriented and this has spawned backlash over...
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  • Kickstarter and Big Business: A Dangerous Union

    A little over a year ago, the Kickstarter craze began. You can trace the roots of the phenomenon to a joint project between 2-Player Productions...

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    A little over a year ago, the Kickstarter craze began. You can trace the roots of the phenomenon to a joint project between 2-Player Productions and video game developer, Double Fine. The project went on to garner $3.3 million and prove to the world that Kickstarter was a legitimate home for crowd-funding  Since then, the Kickstarter...
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  • Road Rash: 5 Reasons It Should Return

    A recent article on Eurogamer featured a piece with Dan Geisler, creator of the Road Rash series all those years ago. In it he talks...

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    A recent article on Eurogamer featured a piece with Dan Geisler, creator of the Road Rash series all those years ago. In it he talks about utilising Kickstarter to fund another Road Rash game, or at least, a spiritual successor. That’s because the Road Rash IP is stuck in the hand of EA without much...
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