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Grand Theft Auto is Too Big. Yakuza is Too Small. Sleeping Dogs is Just Right.
Creating a compelling and enjoyable open world experience is more than just giving the player as much real estate technologically possible to play in. It’s a delicate balancing act between character and scale. Somewhere between Grand Theft Auto‘s size and Yakuza’s personality lies Sleeping Dogs That’s not to say that Grand Theft Auto IV or…
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It Turns Out, This Is A Really Awesome Year to Love Gorgeous Adventure Games
I would never have expected 2012 to turn out to be such a phenomenal year to be an adventure game fan. And yet, here we are. This new one is Primordia, brought to us by Wadjet Eye Games. Those are the same folks who brought us 2011’s Gemini Rue and this summer’s fantastic Resonance Primordia…
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Witness Dead or Alive 5‘s Latest Fighters Engaged in a Quaint Dinner to the Death
There’s only one way a meal between the boisterous Brad Wong and boyish Eliot in Tecmo Koei’s Dead or Alive 5 can possibly end. Or they could fight I guess. That works too. In an amusing departure from the over-the-top fighting stages we’ve seen from the game so far, Brad and Eliot make their debut…
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I Finally Tracked Down The PC That Taught Me To Love Games. It’s Uglier Than I Remembered.
This morning on Twitter, a friend linked to a site featuring early advertisements for the personal computer, circa the 1970s. With thirty or forty years of distance, the ads are, of course, dated and even funny, in a way. But one of the images featured an early Atari computer, an Atari 800 from 1980. And…
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A Dramatic Look at the Story of Neverwinter
Every time the terms “Dungeons & Dragons” and “story” appear together and I don’t find myself in a 10×10 room with four other people, checking for traps, I’m just the tiniest bit disappointed. This is Neverwinter, the action-MMO take on the classic franchise, as previewed by our own Kate Cox earlier this year. Specifically this…
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The Secret World Unveils an Ambitious Plan to Beautify New York City
Though The Secret World has gotten off to a stumbling start, Funcom continues to aggressively roll out fresh new content, like the August 28 release of Issue 2: Digging Deeper and the promised New York City raid, which in the next few months will give the city a real reason to never sleep. I’d say…
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Razer Making Non-Star Wars Version of its Fancy Star Wars Keyboard, and the LCD Panel May Actually Be Useful This Time
Not so long ago, in a galaxy that’s right here actually, there was this Star Wars-themed keyboard from Razer. It boasted not only a number of impressive features for a keyboard, but also a big ol’ tie-in to a now-troubled MMO Want the features without the branding? Razer’s got you covered. Razer announced the new…
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Check Out Black Ops 2‘s CODcasting in Action
In a live demonstration streamed direct from Gamescom in Germany earlier today, Activision and Treyarch showed off Call of Duty: Black Ops 2‘s exciting new multiplayer broadcasting tools. Finally a way for an unskilled loudmouth like me to enjoy Call of Duty! I can imagine my first broadcast bout already. I’ll pick an overlay, set…
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Anonymous Claims PSN Hack Affecting 10 Million Accounts [Update: It’s a Hoax]
Anonymous claims it broke into the PlayStation Network and has a 50 gigabyte database of email accounts and their passwords. Ten million accounts “are at risk,” says the hacker involved. The passwords appear to be encrypted, and many of the accounts published in this document appear to be from northern Europe. This still would be…
By Owen Good
