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Jockeying For Position In FIFA 11
In American football, this type of motion is called “strafing.” In association football, it’s jockeying. This two minute tutorial gives you another good look at the soccer sim’s gameplay while educating you on the finer points of advanced defense. FIFA 11 arrives two weeks from tomorrow in North America, Sept. 30 in Australia and Oct.…
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When The Game Comes On, Madden Goes Off
An interesting little graphic EA Sports sent us today illustrates what most would expect: An actual NFL game crashes Madden NFL’s participation numbers. But it still holds on to about 34,000 hardcore users from kickoff to final gun. These two charts (click to zoom in) show the online traffic for Madden NFL 11 on PS3…
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Video Games Help Us Make Faster Decisions
Scientists from the University of Rochester have found that playing fast-paced action video games helps players make decisions 25 percent faster than normal, yet no less accurate. We’ve long known that playing video games helps sharpen reflexes and motor skills, but a new study proves that gaming also has a strong effect on our cognitive…
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Halo: Reach Launches Jet Packs In Trafalgar Square
Using jet packs as marketing tools has been done before, but in the case of the Halo: Reach launch event held in London’s historic Trafalgar Square this morning the spectacle was quite appropriate. What better way to introduce the people of London to a Halo game that introduces jet packs than a man wearing Spartan…
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Geek And Gamer Girls Will Likely Be Irritated By This Video
Break.com gathers Katee Sackhoff, Stan Lee, a rapping Seth Green, and several scantily clad models for this parody of Katy Perry’s “California Girls,” “Geek and Gamer Girls,” which are apparently attractive women who love posing naked with toys. Click to view The video scores points for namedropping the likes of Final Fantasy and Doctor Who,…
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Section 8 Returns With Prejudice
The solid game that hardly anyone played returns for round two next year in TimeGate Studios’ Section 8: Prejudice. How the hell did Section 8 get a sequel? The original Section 8 for the Xbox 360, PC, and PlayStation 3 received an average score of 70 or so on Metacritic, which isn’t really all that…
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Become A Necromorph In Dead Space 2 Multiplayer
Dead Space 2 is bringing four-on-four multiplayer to EA’s survival horror series, giving players a choice to play as the human members of the Sprawl Security Team or the evil Necromorph forces. What side are you on? In a post on the PlayStation Blog, Dead Space 2 producer Scott Probst details the game’s new mutiplayer…
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Frankenreview: Halo: Reach
Is Bungie’s final game in the Halo series a masterpiece, or is that a bit of a reach? We turn to a crack squad of video game reviewers for the answer. It’s been a long road from Halo: combat Evolved to Halo: Reach, and along the way Bungie has done a lot of growing. This…
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Hidden Gems: Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to run an item shop in a Japanese role-playing game? EasyGameStation’s Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the fast-paced world of RPG commerce. Capitalism, ho! Ever since Recettear appeared on Steam last week, fans of the game have been bugging us to give…
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Company Of Heroes Designer’s Widow Tells Her Story
Erin Wood, the widow of Company of Heroes Online lead designer Brian Wood who died tragically in a car crash earlier this month, appeared on NBC’s Today this morning to discuss the accident and how she’s coping with her loss. Click to view Seeing Erin talk about the accident that claimed Brian Wood’s life earlier…
By Mike Fahey
