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Celebrating Seven Years of City of Heroes
Seven years ago today, NCsoft and Cryptic Studios released City of Heroes, providing fantasy-gorged massively multiplayer online gamers a new way to waste countless hours of their lives alongside thousands of their closest friends. Let’s celebrate seven years of heroes and villains with a colorful infographic and nostalgia-laden anecdotes! I fondly remember the day City…
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Binary Domain is a Prophetic Vision of the Robot Apocalypse
Behold our first glimpse of gameplay from Sega’s Binary Domain, a cautionary tale in which humanity must fight for survival against the highly advanced robots we created with our own hands. I bet Watson is behind this. It’s the same old story I’ve been shouting from street corners for years. “Stop making robots!” I’d yell.…
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Exploring the Most Beautiful Video Game Worlds
In today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Monsieur.Froid urges us to sit back, relax, and get lost in the wondrous landscapes of the most gorgeous virtual worlds gaming has to offer. What are some of the absolutely best video game worlds out there? I think I know what I love best about a video game, and…
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One Out Of Two Portal 2 Players On Steam Hasn’t Finished The Game
So much for Portal 2 being too short. Fans of Portal 2 may be surprised to learn that a lot of people who own the game aren’t playing it very much. Little more than half the players who bought the game on Steam have finished it and more than one in ten of them haven’t…
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What’s on the Menu? The Call of Duty: Black Ops Escalation Map Pack
I was wondering when Activision was planning on returning to the dual pistol-wielding line cook from that live-action Call of Duty: Black Ops commercial. Welcome back, old friend. Things have escalated since we last met. What we have here is a quick look at the five new maps coming to the Xbox 360 by way…
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Is Let Them Eat Cake the Most Authentic Royalty Simulator of All Time?
Oh, perchance for but a moment to be an inbred simp amidst a pageant to celebrate the sublimation of fresh genetic material into our state-supported carnival sideshow. I would look out from Buckingham Palace and I would think Wot I think is that I’m quite a proper fellar and…ooh thar’s cake I’m’a gonna throw it…
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Talk Amongst Yourselves
Don’t you just love the spring? The sun is bright, the air warm, balmy and refreshing. A perfect time…to stay indoors and play video games! Speaking of which, what are you all playing right now? Let’s hear some talking. User kaploy9 has introduced a 19th-century child to Kinect—and with such terrific results! If you’d like…
By Drew Cohen
