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Are Massively Multiplayer Games Too… Massively Multiplayer?
What’s better, a game with thousands of complete strangers, or one in which up to 100 of your closest friends can play together whenever they want at their own pace? Commenter IncrediBurch makes a compelling argument for the latter in today’s massively multiplayer edition of Speak Up on Kotaku. I think MMO’s try too hard…
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The Average Xbox User Is Online For 84 Hours Per Month, Gaming For About Half Of It
The Xbox 360 is perhaps the country’s most beloved current generation gaming console, with millions of units sitting in millions of living rooms entertaining millions of gamers. But for all that the 360 is the platform of choice for players to devour blockbuster and indie game titles alike, its biggest draw may be for watching…
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UncategorizedHow To Three-Star The Hell Out of Angry Birds Space
It’s almost an inherent quality to want to 100%, perfect, full-star, whatever you want to call it, for each game. Especially when the tasks are fairly simple ones, like those many mobile games employ, it’s hard to fend off that desire to achieve perfect completion. Angry Birds Space is no exception. In fact, developer Rovio’s…
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UncategorizedAnarchy Online Puts on a Fresh Face After 11 Years
Perhaps the most compelling and original science fiction setting in massively multiplayer online gaming, Funcom’s Anarchy Online has been in operation since June of 2001. About time for a facelift, wouldn’t you say? Let’s take a look at the changes being made to this elder statesman of the sci-fi MMO scene. To the layman it…
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UncategorizedTurn-Based Role-Playing Fans Find a Safe Haven in Chaos Rings II
Final Fantasy fans seeking to relive the glory days of the series when enemies were on one side of the screen and waited their turn have a new champion on the iPhone in Square Enix’s Chaos Rings II. As with Chaos Rings and Chaos Rings Omega before it, Chaos Rings II is a turn-based role-playing…
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UncategorizedEvery Half-Life Fan’s Worst Nightmare
The moment all Valve and Half-Life fans have been waiting for might be revealed at this year’s E3, predicts YouTube user aekime. But will it be the big reveal everyone is sitting on the edge of their seats for? At least Gabe will apparently make the most amazing entrance ever. Fair warning: This video is…
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UncategorizedHorrible Food and Video Games Used to Date Back in the 80s
Video game historian Patrick Scott Patterson writes, “Anyone who claims video games cause child obesity might had more of a case in the 1980s.” Here’s more than eight glorious minutes’ worth of commercials that explain why we were fat in the 1980s. Video game food tie-ins are alive and well today, of course. The difference…
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UncategorizedLaugh Through 16 Minutes of This Bubsy Collection Review
Have you ever played a Bubsy game? If you have, you’re undoubtedly familiar with the lackluster controls and odd bobcat mascot who talks… a little too much. If you haven’t, JonTron is here to warn you to keep it that way. Leave your 90s gaming memories untarnished by this platformer. I wouldn’t normally recommend 16-minute…
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Tuesday Watch This, Play This
Watch! You probably didn’t need this review of the Bubsy collection, but it’s worth watching anyway. Watch! This is what video game and food ad tie-ins looked like in the 80s. Play! Need a new RPG to play on your iPhone? Fahey suggests Chaos Rings II Watch! One fan’s prediction of Valve’s E3 this year.
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