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UncategorizedRebuild The Ruined World, One Zombie-Infected Tile at a Time
I’ve been playing a lot of Civ V on my PC lately. That’s probably why it was the first, immediate point of comparison that leapt to mind when I started playing Rebuild. Only really, they’re not very much alike. Sarah Northway’s Rebuild posits the zombie disaster with which we are now so intimately familiar: the…
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UncategorizedAdmit It. You’d Freak Out If A Zombie Approached You In Real Life, Too.
We all know zombies aren’t real, right? But, come on. If one approached you, looking pretty realistic, you’d undoubtedly either run off crying or swing at them with the nearest item-turned-weapon. Zombie pranks are nothing new, but I love this one. I find it both remarkable and hilarious that some people seem totally convinced, in…
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A Very Strange Bug Made My Civ V Game More Fun… For a While
Ever since playing a preview of the upcoming Civilization V expansion a few weeks ago I’ve been, as I predicted, sucked into the game. I started with small maps and few competitors, on easy modes, and with every win I’ve been ratcheting up the difficulty for the game that follows. Finally, I was playing a…
By Kate Cox - Uncategorized
Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero Development Team Heeds the Call of Duty
Neversoft, the Activision developement studio known for introducing Tony Hawk to video games and carrying the Guitar Hero torch, updated its website to reflect its new role supporting the Call of Duty franchise. Fingers crossed for skateboarding guitarist zombies. [Gamespot]
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BioWare is ‘Looking at Free-to-Play’ for Star Wars: The Old Republic
Back in December BioWare’s dueling doctors told us they couldn’t see their newly-launched massively multiplayer online Star Wars role-playing game going free-to-play in the foreseeable future. Then BioWare botched several free game updates and lost a good chunk of the game’s subscribers. Suddenly free-to-play isn’t looking so bad. In an interview with Games(TM), lead designer…
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UncategorizedA Terrifying First Look at the Sequel to the Scariest PC Game Ever
In case you don’t want to watch the first teaser trailer for Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, let me summarize it for you: Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, oh god what is that? What the hell is that?! There’s a terrifying monster pig creature out there, and the truffles he’s rooting for are your soul. If…
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Red Games Are Patriotic Communist Games That Always Have China Winning
Chances are when you hear “China”, you immediately think of communism, Tiananmen Square and Chairman Mao. Well, those three things don’t really scream video games, but in China they are an important part of China’s video gaming history. Chairman Mao and his vision of China a red China has influenced a genre of video games…
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Forget Food! Chinese Kids Want Virtual Gaming Loot, Instead
According to a population study done by Nanjing Normal University and published by Tencent, over 33% of Chinese junior high students in the Nanjing area are willing to go hungry in the morning so that they can purchase items for online games. In their study, Nanjing University surveyed over 1,200 junior high, high school, and…
By Eric Jou
