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Far Cry 2 Features 16-player Multi-player

28. June 2008

Far Cry 2 Features 16-player Multi-player

This Christmas season, players who enjoyed the Far Cry universe will get their hands on the sequel and a revamped multi-player mode. While the announcement of 16-player online competition is intriguing, the addition of Call of Duty 4 style leveling and experience may be a knock-off, but as gameplay mechanic, it’s addictive. Sadly, Game designer [...]

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CoD5: World at War - Trailer and New Information

28. June 2008

CoD5: World at War - Trailer and New Information

CoD5: World at War - Debut Trailer This is the debut trailer for the recently announced, Call of Duty 5: World at War which is being developed by Treyarch and will be released on the PC and all major consoles . The debut trailer for World at War was featured exclusively on Xbox Live Marketplace last [...]

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World of Warcr… Err, Wifecraft

28. June 2008

What if you lived in a modern day Warcraft and in order to sleep with your wife, you need to hit level 40? How do you level up? By doing stuff your wife wants to do. No, this isn’t some deep, horrific horror. It’s a priceless comedy piece from FarkTV that ranks amongst the funniest [...]

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Burnout Paradise on its way to PC Audience

28. June 2008

Burnout Paradise on its way to PC Audience

Amazingly, after millions of sold copies, Criterion’s racing franchise has made a home on nearly every platform except one: the PC. With Paradise, the company will be breaking that trend. As an added bonus - and given that PC gamers have waited about six years they better get something - this version will have expanded [...]

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‘Life With Playstation’ Service Announced

28. June 2008

‘Life With Playstation’ Service Announced

Earlier today, Sony exec Kaz Hirai announced that it was preparing a new service for PlayStation 3 users, which they’ve dubbed Life with PlayStation. Similar to some other services on the Wii, Life with PlayStation will launch with news and weather information channels, but will expand to some other services in the future. The basic interface [...]

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Burnout Paradise Patched, Fixes Loads of Stuff

26. June 2008

Running the gamut from audio, gameplay, and online, the Burnout Paradise patch should take care of any issues present with the game. Well, except for still not letting people restart races. Sigh. The fix covers the PS3 and Xbox versions, with specific changes for each version in some cases. Smaller edits such as making the [...]

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WANTED: ultimat2.wad

25. June 2008

WANTED: ultimat2.wad

So back in the day, myself and Eric modified this Doom II: Hell on Earth map called ultimate.wad and lost at least three months of our adolescence playing endless deathmatches all night every night. And we named it, wait for it, ultimat2.wad which, to my current dismay as of the date of this post, returns [...]

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Violence Decreases With Violent Game Releases

25. June 2008

While hardly scientific and more of an observation, GamePolitics has an interesting look on how violent crime has dropped drastically with the release of heavily criticized titles. While only a few games are mentioned, think of Halo (2001) or Counter-Strike (2003) and place them on the chart. A number of outside factors considered (crimes not [...]

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MGS4: First Impressions

25. June 2008

Wow, where to start, and not give any spoilers. I got Metal Gear Solid 4 yesterday and I have to say, I am impressed. Even from booting up the game you’re excited to play it. The title screen is just beautiful to look at. You are truly immersed into the world right from the start. [...]

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Call of Duty 5 to feature fire

25. June 2008

Obviously going to match the experience provided by Halo 3, Call of Duty 5 is set to feature some co-op fun in addition to the expected versus play. Back into World War II and taking place in both the Pacific and European theaters… with flamethrowers. Those without online can still tackle co-op play with [...]

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Online Behavior Affecting Sales

25. June 2008

You’ve got to remember. These are just simple folk. The common clay of Xbox Live. People of the land. You know… morons. In an interview with prior head of game research for the Xbox brand Bill Fulton, Gamasutra found the source of the problem with online behavior and sales in an interview: … online behavior of our [...]

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World of World of Warcraft

23. June 2008

‘Warcraft’ Sequel Lets Gamers Play A Character Playing ‘Warcraft’ This one slipped by everybody. The highly anticipated sequel to World of Warcraft? It’s out. This isn’t just some expansion pack. Oh no. This open up an entirely new world to WoW gamers. Instead of wasting time controlling your character, you control a character who controls the [...]

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