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It Isn’t All Fun and Frivolity — Gamers Have Problems Too
When non-gamers get on your case about sitting around fiddling with your game pad all night long, show them this. It’s a sobering look at the real problems that affect us as gamers, from the folks at BadWeatherFilm. As tongue-in-cheek as many of these entries, harvested from Twitter tag #GamerProblems may be, a couple of…
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The Dorkly Weekly: Oh Come On, Everybody Loves Mortal Kombat‘s Toasty Guy
Don’t be like that, Dorkly! Dan Forden sounds like a great guy to hang out at T.G.I. Friday’s with on a Monday. Dan Forden, one of the four programmers that initially began working on the original Mortal Kombat, along with Ed Boon, John Tobias and John Vogel, is better known to the world at large…
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Newest DirectX Upgrade Only For Windows 8 Systems
And so the inevitable march of Windows moves onward: DirectX, the software that Windows computers rely on to make games run, is getting an upgrade—but only for Windows 8. A Microsoft employee confirmed in a (tech-heavy) post to developers that “there is no plan for DirectX 11.1 to be made available on Windows 7.” Windows…
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Legends: Rise of a Hero is the Perfect Example of a Mid-Core Action RPG
“Mid-core” is a term being bandied about quite a lot lately, indicating the evolution of social games from passive clicking affairs to experiences that flirt with hardcore gameplay while remaining accessible to casual players. Need an example? Play Mob Science’s newly-launched Legends: Rise of a Hero Out today on Zynga.com, Legends is a mouse-based action…
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NatGeo’s Brilliant Doomsday Preppers Game is Tiny Tower, Only Underground
NatGeo’s Doomsday Preppers is a documentary series about people preparing for the end of the world, hording supplies, learning survival skills and building elaborate shelters in the hopes that when the big day comes the four horse-persons of the apocalypse might pass them by. In celebration of tomorrow’s launch of the show’s second season, G5…
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Huge New Live Event This Weekend Kicks Off Guild Wars 2‘s November Update
Lion’s Arch is under attack! Or, well, make that, Lion’s Arch is under attack—again. The poor city just can’t seem to catch a break. Just as the Mad King himself burst into Lion’s Arch rather destructively on October 28, so too is something coming to the coastal city next weekend. And it’s not a nice…
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Zenonia 5 Comes Alive on Android This Week
Gamevil’s ever-expanding mobile action RPG series turns five this week, with the release of Zenonia 5: Wheel of Destiny for Android devices. Has it really been five games already? That’s the joy of mobile gaming. While the console folks are still sitting around waiting for Square Enix to finish up a Final Fantasy game that…
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How Not To Get Banned From Call of Duty: Black Ops II
The next installment in the Call of Duty juggernaut, Black Ops II, launches tomorrow. In preparation for the legions of players who will no doubt soon be shooting each other, exploiting every glitch, and saying very rude things on voice chat—as well as the millions of folks who just want to play, and have to…
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Alternative Halo 4 Launch Trailer Captures What’s Great About The Campaign
Most people probably play Halo titles for the multiplayer. I don’t blame them. But the singleplayer campaign in Halo 4 is too excellent to ignore. The legitimate launch trailer—which focuses on the storyline—is pretty good on its own. It’s simple, it alludes to the main threat and theme of the game. But I like this…
By Tina Amini
