• Happy Wars

    Free to play games.  A blessing for young gamers with little money?  A curse that undercuts developers who want to sell good games at fair...

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    Free to play games.  A blessing for young gamers with little money?  A curse that undercuts developers who want to sell good games at fair prices?  However you view them, this new business model has spread virulently through the PC and mobile market over the last few years.  Now it has come to consoles with...
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  • The Walking Dead Episode 4: Around Every Corner

    Telltale’s The Walking Dead games adapt the comic books, but there one very important difference between the comic books and the game: The comics star...

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    Telltale’s The Walking Dead games adapt the comic books, but there one very important difference between the comic books and the game: The comics star Rick Grimes.  Rick is a good man who finds himself leading a band of survivors, and he does the best he can to be a wise leader, a cautious defender,...
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  • World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria

    On September 25th, Blizzard released the fourth expansion for their hit MMORPG, World of Warcraft. This expansion, titled Mists of Pandaria, takes players on an...

    WoW Mists
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    On September 25th, Blizzard released the fourth expansion for their hit MMORPG, World of Warcraft. This expansion, titled Mists of Pandaria, takes players on an epic journey to venture into the mysterious continent of Pandaria. Quite honestly, I was quite hesitant about buying this new expansion. I am a huge fan of the Warcraft franchise,...
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  • Hard Mode Makes a Good Game Great

    Sometimes games contain a difficult level that make gamers throw down their controller. Some easy examples off of memory would be a first-time playthrough of...

    Sometimes games contain a difficult level that make gamers throw down their controller. Some easy examples off of memory would be a first-time playthrough of Ocarina of Time’s Water Temple, or the part in Star Ocean: Till the End of Time where you have to navigate through Kirlsa Caverns via a non sequitur mini game...
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  • Theo’s Thoughts #22: Five Man Dungeons

    When comparing the new Mists of Pandaria expansion to the previous Cataclysm expansion, one of the biggest differences is how difficult the Heroic dungeons were....

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    When comparing the new Mists of Pandaria expansion to the previous Cataclysm expansion, one of the biggest differences is how difficult the Heroic dungeons were. Most players still remember the Cataclysm Heroics, being difficult enough to make these instances hard to do with a PuG group. The difficulty of these heroics, along with other factors,...
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  • Season Passes Expand the Games Industry

    Over the past year, many triple-A titles such as Assassin’s Creed III, Black-Ops II, Borderlands II, and Quantum Conundrum have released with a DLC Season...

    Borderlands 2
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    Over the past year, many triple-A titles such as Assassin’s Creed III, Black-Ops II, Borderlands II, and Quantum Conundrum have released with a DLC Season Pass included. These ‘season passes’ allow for the download of multiple pieces of DLC after the initial release of the game without forcing the consumer to buy the extra DLC...
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  • Planet in a Bottle

    Planet in a Bottle is so simple that it should be a crime to call it an actual game. I refuse to sit here and...

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    Planet in a Bottle is so simple that it should be a crime to call it an actual game. I refuse to sit here and tell you that the game is a whole lot like Hatchi or Tamagotchi because, just no. Planet in a Bottle is a cute little game with 2D graphics and no...
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  • Drift Mania Championship 2

    Racing games are generally about getting across the finish line as quickly as possible.  With the Drift Mania series, it’s more about style than speed. ...

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    Racing games are generally about getting across the finish line as quickly as possible.  With the Drift Mania series, it’s more about style than speed.  “Drifting” is when a driver deliberately loses traction in the rear wheels and slides around corners in a dangerous, yet flashy manner.  This is the central gameplay mechanic behind Drift...
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  • The Simpsons Tapped Out

    The Simpsons Tapped Out debuted earlier this year in a disastrous bug-ridden launch that resulted in it being pulled from the App Store.  It returned...

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    The Simpsons Tapped Out debuted earlier this year in a disastrous bug-ridden launch that resulted in it being pulled from the App Store.  It returned recently in a more stable format, and added a new batch of Halloween content too.  We have spent weeks of our precious lives exploring this addictive time-devourer to see if...
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  • Dishonored

    These days, developing a new IP is a big risk, especially when creating something as different as Dishonored. Arkane Studios decided to take on the...

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    These days, developing a new IP is a big risk, especially when creating something as different as Dishonored. Arkane Studios decided to take on the challenge of creating an experience that the gaming world has never seen, but is it one worth experiencing? Dishonored takes place in the fictional city of Dunwall, the capital of Gristol....
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