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Google Play Is Messed Up, Like This Poor Girl’s Disfigured Face
“Why don’t you review more Android games?” is a question I get on a daily basis, and it’s a question I never ignore. Every time I get it, the first thing I do is go to Google Play on my phone and see if there’s anything new worth taking a look at. The service doesn’t…
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The Big Xbox One Announcement, in Helpful, Hilarious Abridged Form
If you didn’t see any of the Xbox One announcement yesterday, you may be of the impression this morning that Microsoft must have gone on stage and urinated on a picture of Mister Rogers while—wait a minute, was Phil Spencer really wearing two watches? VideoGamer, which also abbreviated Sony’s PS4 announcement back in February, provides…
By Owen Good -
PC FIFA Won’t Get EA Sports’ Next-Gen Engine
Sorry, Master Race. That superduper Ignite Engine that EA Sports is bringing to its next-generation games? Yeah, it’s not going to power any upcoming PC version of FIFA. That’s per FIFA community manager Rob Hodson, who had this to say on Twitter. Naturally, PC gamers did not react well. The truth is that PC has…
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Wildstar‘s Path System Might Be The Coolest MMORPG Feature Of The Year
Carbine Studios has already won me over with the Ratchet and Clank-style promotional videos and animated movie feel of its upcoming massively multiplayer online sci-fi role-playing game. WildStar path system, rewarding players for playing how they want to play, is a think, creamy layer of frosting on an annoyingly distant cake. When I play an…
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The Graphical Overhaul Of Super Mario Land Is Adorably Presumptuous
Super Mario Land, the iconic Mario game for the original Game Boy, is not the typical target for player-crafted redesigns, but here we are. Arne Niklas Jansson has taken a a 24-year-old classic portable game and made it look like an indie PC game released last week. Jansson explains the entire process of tweaking a…
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EA’s Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen has recently said that they “are building titles for the Nintendo consoles, but not anywhere near as many as we are for PS or Xbox.” This seems to contradict the stance they took last week, when they stated that they are not working on any games for the Wii…
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This Game Shows That Being a God is Just Like Playing a Board Game
From A Valley Without Wind creator Arcen Games comes Skyward Collapse, a turn-based god game for the PC that entices not with its looks, but with its premise. As the Creator, your job is to keep the two factions living on your floating continent alive by preventing one from overpowering the other and protecting them…
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Crave Some Random Facts? This Diablo III Infographic Is Just For You
Blizzard’s hack and slash extravaganza Diablo III has been out for over a year now, and they decided to celebrate with an infographic. From the usual statistics to quirky trivia, this one has them all—though I would’ve loved to know exactly how many keyboards were broken over Error 37. Check out the graphic below.
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Mainstream Media Reacts to the Xbox One
It’s bizarre. On my Twitter feed, in the Kotaku comments and from what I’ve heard from people involved in the games industry, the reaction the Xbox One reveal has been overwhelmingly negative. But the mainstream media? They seem to have missed the memo. While we’ve been spending the last five hours complaining about the lack…
By Mark Serrels