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  • What Code Hero’s Failure Can Teach Major Developers

    Developers from the popular Kickstarter project Code Hero recently revealed that the team had run out of money. This was after several of them had...

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    Sara Swanson
    by Sara Swanson
    Developers from the popular Kickstarter project Code Hero recently revealed that the team had run out of money. This was after several of them had quit higher-paying jobs in order to work on what they thought would be an educational project—and now that they aren’t earning any money whatsoever, they’re having a lousy December, to...
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  • One Gamers Urge to Turn Your Mic Off While Online Gaming

    This is a topic that might be a sore spot with a lot of people, but it is one that I’ve been thinking about lately...

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    Dave Walsh
    by Dave Walsh
    This is a topic that might be a sore spot with a lot of people, but it is one that I’ve been thinking about lately and trying to come to terms with, and that is competitive online gaming. In a way, I love competitive online gaming, I love the concept of going online and playing...
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  • Theo’s Thoughts #29: Five Features I’d Love to See in WoW

    Over the years, Blizzard has added many features to improve World of Warcraft. Some of these features are uniquely ideas from Blizzard, while others are...

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    Ted Racicot
    by Ted Racicot
    Over the years, Blizzard has added many features to improve World of Warcraft. Some of these features are uniquely ideas from Blizzard, while others are things from other games that Blizzard has tweaked to make them work in WoW. Regardless of how they came to be, Blizzard always does a good job of adding new...
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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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    Sara Swanson
    by Sara Swanson
    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 theme of the past games’ covers, and instead of featuring a Big Daddy, it features a manly character looking down with his head and up with his eyes as explosions...
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  • Kickstarter Focus: AERO

    Backed and helped by Bill Nye himself, AERO is a game that explains the complex parts of aerodynamics as a simple game. Rarely do educational...

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    Sara Swanson
    by Sara Swanson
    Backed and helped by Bill Nye himself, AERO is a game that explains the complex parts of aerodynamics as a simple game. Rarely do educational games with gimmicky add-ons catch my attention, but after seeing AERO in action, I can’t express how fun it looks in words. The graphics are incredibly charming, the UI looks...
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  • Minecraft Proves That More Games Should Reward Creativity in Players

    There is something to be said for there being a slew of newer games out, as it is the busiest season for videogame releases, and...

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    Dave Walsh
    by Dave Walsh
    There is something to be said for there being a slew of newer games out, as it is the busiest season for videogame releases, and games like Minecraft continue to remain strong. In fact, Minecraft is still the third-most played game on Xbox 360 according to the latest Xbox Live charts. In a way, that...
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  • Maxing out the Xbox 360 and why it may not be a good thing

    Whilst speaking to VideoGamer.com, CEO of Crytek Cevat Yerli, has been quoted on saying that the rising price of components for the next iteration of...

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    Martin Toney
    by Martin Toney
    Whilst speaking to VideoGamer.com, CEO of Crytek Cevat Yerli, has been quoted on saying that the rising price of components for the next iteration of the Xbox will make it “impossible” for the next generation of gaming consoles “to have the same kind of impact on the console business” when compared to the previous generations....
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  • How Episodic Game Content Could Change Gaming

    Yesterday I took a look at Telltale Games and how they have struck gold with their game, The Walking Dead, after a lot of missteps...

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    Dave Walsh
    by Dave Walsh
    Yesterday I took a look at Telltale Games and how they have struck gold with their game, The Walking Dead, after a lot of missteps and quite plainly, poor games. What is interesting is that outside of simply the content of their games and the writing, the delivery method that they chose for their titles...
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  • How Telltale Helped Revive the Adventure Game World

    Adventure games are not new in any sense of the word, but they have been gaining some momentum of late, best highlighted by one of...

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    Dave Walsh
    by Dave Walsh
    Adventure games are not new in any sense of the word, but they have been gaining some momentum of late, best highlighted by one of this year’s best games, Telltale’s The Walking Dead. The Walking Dead is based on the comic which inspired the hit AMC television series and of course, it is about zombies,...
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  • Hands on: Nuvo Pro Game Grip

    Mobile gaming. It has certainly become a prevalent aspect of the industry, one that was expected to die of within the next gaming generation. But...

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    Martin Toney
    by Martin Toney
    Mobile gaming. It has certainly become a prevalent aspect of the industry, one that was expected to die of within the next gaming generation. But over the past few years there has been an incredible rise in the amount of people who are gaming on their mobile phones and smartphones. Since it’s inception the mobile...
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