• A Paragon No More: The Final Hours of City of Heroes

    When Cryptic Studios launched their superhero MMO City of Heroes, it marked the beginning of a never-ending battle for freedom, liberty and justice.  Eight years...

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    When Cryptic Studios launched their superhero MMO City of Heroes, it marked the beginning of a never-ending battle for freedom, liberty and justice.  Eight years later that “never-ending” battle has come to a close.  The brave heroes of Paragon City have survived alien invasions, assaults from a mirror dimension, and the fiendish schemes of the...
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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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    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 part of the controller contains its own magnetometer, accelerometer, speaker, and gyro. The orbs are also able to light up, just like their PS Move counterparts. With a new controller...
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  • The Finger Fix: Hitman Reminds Us of the Holidays

    What is the world coming to when a game about an assassin begins to remind you of the holiday season?  You know, gift wrap for...

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    What is the world coming to when a game about an assassin begins to remind you of the holiday season?  You know, gift wrap for starters, the nose of a certain reindeer and of course, Santa’s classic wardrobe.  If you ask me,  there’s some sick sinister plot behind it all,  think about it..Santa does technically...
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  • Theo’s Thoughts #27: MoP’s First Patch

    On Tuesday, Mists of Pandaria’s first major content patch hit live servers. As with most new content, there is a lot of excitement around the...

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    On Tuesday, Mists of Pandaria’s first major content patch hit live servers. As with most new content, there is a lot of excitement around the new additions this patch brings to the game. This new content includes new daily quests that show the escalation of the conflict between the Horde and the Alliance, the new...
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  • Why the Oculus Rift Has the Upper Hand Next Generation

    The Oculus Rift made waves with its Kickstarter campaign, amassing a huge amount of $2.4 million dollars before it finally ended. With several of its...

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    The Oculus Rift made waves with its Kickstarter campaign, amassing a huge amount of $2.4 million dollars before it finally ended. With several of its development donation tiers bought out, and the more expensive ones purchased multiple times, it’s clear that developers are looking forward to what this 3D simulator has to offer. It probably...
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  • The Future of Bungie and Destiny

    The Halo franchise has finally flown from the nest and gone on to pastures that are fresh and new, but just what have Bungie been...

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    The Halo franchise has finally flown from the nest and gone on to pastures that are fresh and new, but just what have Bungie been filling their time and what has decided to move in and occupy that now empty nest? IGN recently received marketing details from an outside source about the new Bungie game...
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  • Black Ops 2, Variety is the Spice of Life

    As a guy who generally likes to get a new shooter every year, this year was looking kind of bleak for the multiplayer shooter games....

    As a guy who generally likes to get a new shooter every year, this year was looking kind of bleak for the multiplayer shooter games. Last year I was spoiled rotten by DICE releasing Battlefield 3 which provided me with endless hours of awesome online play, and for last year, Battlefield 3 really was the...
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  • Kickstarter Focus: Days of Dawn

    With a team selected from AION, Jagged Alliance Online, Rainbow Moon, Settlers 7, War of Worlds and Lords and Knights, Days of Dawn has an...

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    With a team selected from AION, Jagged Alliance Online, Rainbow Moon, Settlers 7, War of Worlds and Lords and Knights, Days of Dawn has an incredible amount of experience backing the project. However, they are setting out to do something completely new in the world of RPG gaming. The closest the industry has to it...
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  • Brace Yourself For the Return of the Console Wars

    I hate the term fanboy, I really do. It is obnoxious and pigeonholes people into a box for being a fan of one thing or...

    I hate the term fanboy, I really do. It is obnoxious and pigeonholes people into a box for being a fan of one thing or another while disliking the competition. What is sad is that with language comes change, and like it or not, some words become a part of the collective consciousness, and at...
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  • Can’t Wait For Bioshock Infinite? Try Minerva’s Den

    The first Bioshock was an amazing game with a clever method of telling its story.  The Player arrives in a fascinating place shortly after an...

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    The first Bioshock was an amazing game with a clever method of telling its story.  The Player arrives in a fascinating place shortly after an interesting event has happened.  It isn’t about experiencing the fall of Rapture, it’s about unearthing the tale of how and why it happened. It was a completely self-contained story with...
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