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There is a point at which game design simply gets in the way of players. Designers rely on restricted access to ammo, levels, and new weaponry to guide player’s through their games, creating the illusion of “progress.” Under no circumstances are players to be given free reign of all a game’s levels,
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video In the just released trailer for the next Tomb Raider game, in which Lara Croft is transformed from a lone spelunker into an action figure pin cushion, Lara is shown killing a deer with a bow and arrow. The sequence appears to fit in between hyperbolic action set pieces, which has Lara creepin
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Brighton-based artist Jim Harris has created a lovely new variation on sprite-art with a series of copper-plate etchings that recreate classic videogame sprites from Pac-Man and Space Invaders. The etchings are on display in The Brighton Five Pound Fringe show at The Rock Inn, Kemptown. Harris promi
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Yesterday Activision and Call of Duty co-creators Jason West and Vince Zampella reached legal settlement a day before their trial was set to begin. “All parties have reached a settlement in the dispute, the terms of which are strictly confidential,” Robert Schwartz, attorney for West and Zampella, s
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Star Wars 1313 is not a sequel to Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, the 2002 game that let players control Jango Fett as he tried to unravel a conspiracy. But it certainly feels like another pass on the same basic idea. Yesterday, LucasArts revealed Star Wars 1313 as the next major game in the franchise tha
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Politicians have long used videogames to help themselves look better. In 2005 Hilary Clinton introduced legislation to make the sale of violent videogames to minors a federal crime. Before her, Joseph Lieberman never seemed to tire of making hyperbolic claims about the morally degenerative effects o
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If you think about it, it’s strange that we should individually own games. No one can own a game of tag or soccer. But a game of Mario or Pokémon can be yours through the generations. The strange sense of privately owning of a thing that was once shared as a function of community togetherness has be
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Videogame news broke today. We fixed it: -Mortal Kombat team announces new fighter featuring Superman, Batman, and more. –New Indie Bundle includes Bastion, Amnesia, Limbo, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, and others. -Nintendo patents vibrating stylus for the 3DS. –Fez sales pass 100,000 on Xbox
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video Ignorance is precious in Dark Souls. It is the sugary juice that makes the tedious process of peeling away the game’s rough and clingy skin bearable–for a time, anyway. The game is at its torturous best when the player is abandoned in their own ignorance and must repeatedly fumble for the corr
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Someone’s going to jail again. In advance of a full reveal at Microsoft’s E3 press conference on Monday, Game Informer just announced a new installment in the Gears of War series. The magazine’s cover shows an unidentified character in blue-glowing handcuffs being led away from a city on fire. It se
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video Yesterday IO Interactive and Square Enix released a trailer for Hitman: Absolution that CVG, The New Statesman, and The Mirror, among many others, have flagged as sexist. The trailer shows Agent 47 getting dressed in a motel room as a group of women assassin’s, dressed as nuns, walking throug
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video Level 1-1 from Super Mario Bros. is one of the most instantly recognizable places in the history of imaginary worlds. It’s opening layout, with the one mushroom-laden question mark and that first angry-faced Goomba is an instinctual memory for millions of people around the world. One fan loved