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Here’s a Full Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft Match for Your Viewing Pleasure
Blizzard revealed its new World of Warcraft-themed collectible card game at PAX East this morning, wrapping up the announcement with a match played in front of a live ballroom audience. Here is that match, in all its glory. It’s actually a pretty standard CCG from the looks of it, enhanced by Blizzard’s signature spit and…
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Blizzard’s Got Something New To Show Us at PAX East. Let’s Watch. Update: It’s All Over
PAX East kicks off this morning in lovely scenic Boston, beginning with the big Blizzard Entertainment Presents panel from 10:00 to 10:30 Eastern. Or at least I am assuming it’s big. Perhaps I should just stick with “new” until the mystery is solved. As if the playable debut of the PlayStation 4 version of Diablo…
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This Impressive Custom-Built Arcade Machine Was Specially Designed For Pokémon Pinball
It took three weeks of hard work to finish this custom pinball machine, which simulates Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire Pinball and the classic Pokémon Pinball, originally released on Game Boy Color. Its surface looks really smooth and clean, and the functioning tilt buttons, plus the classic Pokémon music make it all totally super effective. You can take…
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No One Knew This Vita RPG Was Coming Out. Tecmo Koei is Working to Make Sure It Doesn’t Happen Again.
Fans of Japanese developer Gust’s long-lived series of alchemy-based Atelier role-playing games are a little miffed with Tecmo Koei. First the latest PlayStation 3 installment of the game — Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk — hit store shelves earlier this month to very little fanfare. Then the PlayStation Vita port of Atelier Totori: The…
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The Most Beautiful Cartoon-Style Adventure Games
After LucasArts’ brilliant 1993 game Day of the Tentacle, cartoon-style point-and-click adventure games slowly became their own sub-genre. Although the genre has had its ups and downs, these games are still around: Think Gemini Rue or the new Broken Sword Here’s our collection of the most beautiful cartoon-style adventure games. Broken Sword II: The Smoking…
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Another Serious Game Falls to Apple’s Anger-Inducing Approval Process
Proven countless times over the past several years alone, video games are a form of entertainment uniquely suited to communicating serious subjects in an interactive fashion — far more effectively than reading a book or watching a documentary. Unfortunately Apple wants nothing to do with that sort of communication, so UK developer Littleloud’s Sweatshop HD…
By Mike Fahey
