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I come from a family of bargain hunters. We thrill to the discounted, the half-off, the outlet mall, the two-for-one. So I know a steal when I see one. And the Humble THQ Bundle, from the distressed publisher, is a goshdarn deal. You get: Metro 2033, Darksiders, Red Faction Armageddon, Company of H
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What’s a Wii U? That’s a good question. Considering it has essentially the same name as the Wii and we haven’t marketed it well at all, you are not unlike a whole lotta people. When Christmas comes around, there are going to be a bunch of confused parents, clearly you among them, but then doesn’t th
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The drumbeat of doom for Big Games has grown louder and faster this fall, as a mediocre crop of AAA titles fails to distract from dwindling sales. No one really knows how severe the decline of the industry is, though, because there is no way for publishers and the media to tabulate and compare digit
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When the Grand Theft Auto V trailer was about to drop, there were Tweets from news outlets counting down until the moment they were free to air it. Game Informer had the first texclusive piece about the game, and outlets milked it for every morsel they could find. The series just surpassed 125 milli
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Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime yesterday on next-gen consoles from Sony and Microsoft. Dem’s fightin’ words!
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A short think piece on Binary Revolver today calls for the end to morality systems in games: The morality system in Dishonored diminishes the game. It breaks the core mechanics into two separate pieces, choosing to boost replay value over creating one fluid experience. This made the game’s entire co
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We have some exciting news to share! For the past two months, I’ve been traveling around the country (plus one trip to Germany) visiting video game studios for a new project. Today we can announce it — in partnership with the Creators Project, Vice, and Intel, we’ve launched a five-video series that
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Hero to some, unbelievable weirdo to more, a man named Okan Kaya, from Sydney, Australia, set the world record for the longest video game sesh by pumping out 136 consecutive hours on Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. After failing to attract the sponsorship of retailers – who were fearful of being associat
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As we all know, Movember is the do-gooding excuse most men need to obey the darkest impulse in their greasy heart, the impulse to grow a mustache. Of course, charity is often about leveraging people’s bad instincts for good purposes, so no harm no foul etc. Amazon has compiled a wonderful list of M
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If you own a Wii and would like to move your system data to a Wii U, you are in for a real treat. Your purchased classic games, downloaded software and saved data for each must be transferred in an unneccessarily complicated process. – – – Moving content from an old Wii to a new Wii U could have be
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Videogames are often juxtaposed with reality. Even among those who endorse them, games are considered respite for those who want to check out of the day-to-day. When we say things like this, we are essentially reducing gaming to an inferior category of existence as compared to “real life”: it is tim
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Earlier this month at the PRACTICE conference, Christine Norman started her presentation on narrative in League of Legends with an aside about audience engagement. Norman, the lead creative developer on LoL, showed footage of the game’s World Championship, which was live streamed globally and featur