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NBA 2K13 Starts to Tease its Next Cover Star
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • The second week after E3 is typically when 2K Sports cranks up the hypeotron for NBA 2K, and we’re hearing the engine hum right on schedule. The game’s social media operation is asking people to tweet what they hope or want to see…
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How Long Can NCAA Remain Above the Anger Against Madden?
Both are made by EA Sports. Both are American football titles. Both are made under exclusive license, and both come out every year. Speak the name of NCAA Football, and no one brings up NCAA College Football 2K3. But say anything about Madden, and every gamer with a commenting account starts chanting for the ultimate…
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Stan ‘The Man’ Lee Soaring Gracefully Over New York Might Be the Most Beautiful Thing I’ve Ever Seen
I was initially skeptical about Stan Lee’s cameo appearance as a playable character in The Amazing Spider-Man. Now that I’ve see this video, I might be persuaded to buy an entire Stan Lee game. Stan’s mission to save his script pages, likely written by someone else, is an Amazon.com exclusive preorder bonus for Beenox’s The…
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Brand-New Indie Game Resonance is the Best 1990s Adventure Game I’ve Played in Years
I am a big fan of adventure games. They’ve been my favorite genre for decades. I like them quite a lot. Enough to have named my cat Guybrush. I have sampled and enjoyed many indie adventure games, both old and new, this year. And I mention all of this so that you will realize the…
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Divinity: Original Sin Turns a Single-Player Killfest Into Turn-Based, Group Combat. And Succeeds.
Larian Studios’ Divinity franchise has had an uneven past. The first game, Divine Divinity, was very good, but others have been more mixed. At E3 this year, Larian showed off two games set in the Divinity universe. One, Dragon Commander, is a real-time strategy game focusing on the dragon knight idea introduced in Divinity II.…
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Any MMO Can Take You to Hell. The Secret World Takes You to an Amusement Park
My first guided tour of Funcom’s upcoming paranormal MMO The Secret World saw me descending into the depths of hell. Many massively multiplayer online role-playing games go there; it’s a popular spot. But only The Secret World follows up hell with a visit to a demented theme park. Funcom’s Craig Morrison escorted a group of…
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The End of Chivalry, Cheesy Action Movies, and Fascist Elves: A Chat With the Man Who Runs Paradox
The first morning of E3, I sat down to talk with Fredrik Wester, CEO of Paradox Interactive. Paradox has, in the past, generally specialized in careful, strategic games with historical settings. But their upcoming titles all deviate from that scheme in some way. While The War of the Roses is historical, it’s anything but a…
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It’s Almost Impossible to Solo World of Warcraft Monopoly
After months of teasing us with reveals of colorful money, plastic towers and murloc-infested cards, World of Warcraft Monopoly is finally available ready for public consumption. Want to see what’s inside? I’ve been sitting on an advance copy of World of Warcraft Monopoly for weeks now, eager to rip open the game and get my…
By Mike Fahey
