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by Stephen Lunn on March 4, 2010
Every game has got to have a villain. At some point in your journey through a character's story, someone is going to do you wrong. Here are, as we see it, the world's best gaming villains.
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by Richard on December 26, 2007
While I can't say that I've even heard of any of the bands whose songs you can now pay money for in this latest batch of downloads for Guitar Hero 3, Activision is spreading some winter-solsti...
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by Richard on December 15, 2007
You don't have to tell me, I know that "fragging bitches" day after day on the same old, tired Halo 3 maps can really bring you down. You can only see those [INSERT MAP DETAIL HERE] of ...
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by Richard on December 5, 2007
I can't say I'm thrilled with these first couple weeks of Rock Band downloadable content. This week we get three covers of songs "made famous by" old-man-metal group black sabbath.Co...
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by Richard on November 29, 2007
Harvey Smith, a designer who worked on Blacksite: Area 51 spoke candidly with GameLife about some of the issues that led to the game's middling reviews:"This project was so fucked up,"...
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by Richard on November 28, 2007
I felt a little bad about pre-judging the new Live Arcade port of asteroids earlier this week so I decided to download the demo and give shooting space rocks The Old College Try. I can now say, with...
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by Richard on November 1, 2007
Viva Pinata: Party animals just arrived in stores today but you might want to think twice before rushing to that Target on the edge of town where no one will see you buying a game called Viva Pinata a...
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by Richard on October 31, 2007
As a Halloween gift to those few hardcore Pinball FX fans still tapping away at their shoulder triggers (or batting aimlessly at the air with their hands) there is a new pirate-themed table available...
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by Richard on October 28, 2007
There's nothing I hate more about the Guitar Hero series than having to play through all those boring songs in career mode to unlock the good songs they hide in the bonus section. In guitar hero 3...
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by Richard on October 27, 2007
Blue Dragoneers with MS Points to burn may be interested in this latest bit of downloadable content for their favorite RPG - 6 in-game items with various functions and status effects:* Whimsical Min...
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by Richard on October 21, 2007
Microsoft recently unveiled the list of achievements for the upcoming Viva Pinata: Party Animals and there's something for everyone.
For the misogynists: "Boy Band - As a male character, f...
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by Richard on September 30, 2007
While most of you are probably taking the weekend to "pwn" some "nubs" in Halo 3, I've been enjoying a bit more laid-back experience: Eternal Sonata. A stylish, odd RPG that ta...
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by Richard on September 12, 2007
What's this? Another Sega game on the Live Arcade for three bucks cheaper than the Wii Virtual Console version and with added online features? Why, um, yes it is:With his new Super Spin Dash and...
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by Richard on August 27, 2007
At the Penny Arcade Expo last weekend Hothead Games announced that the upcoming penny arcade game (the subtitle-rich Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One) will...
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by Richard on August 17, 2007
Not one, not two, but three new My Chemical Romance tracks have been made available for purchase on the Xbox Live Marketplace. 500 MS Points ($6.25 US) will get you three songs from My Chem's late...
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by Richard on July 31, 2007
IGN has reviewed the upcoming Live Arcade port of Marathon: Durandal and while they give the game a "decent" score of 7.4 they do have one unusual issue with the game - motion sickness:
Mara...
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by Richard on July 30, 2007
Kotaku brings us the glorious news that Microsoft (by way of Rare) is bringing the Viva Pinata franchise to the Nintendo DS. Squint your eyes and enjoy these first blurry screens:
The DS port will ...
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by Richard on July 19, 2007
Everyone's favorite grey-and-brown third-person shooter is going multi-platform - by the end of this year you'll be able to watch the Gears of War turn on Windows XP/Vista and Mac OS.
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by Richard on July 16, 2007
I've got mixed feelings about the Turok series. As awesome as should be to have a gunfight with a pack of cybernetically-enhanced velociraptors, it wasn't really that awesome at all - the N6...
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by Richard on July 4, 2007
What's most amazing about this video: Finally seeing the drum controller in action? The awesome bit of instrument abuse that is the Ending Bonus? Or that Rock Band can take something as lame as ...
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by Richard on June 30, 2007
IGN has a preview up of Universe at War, the upcoming real-time strategy game (and the first third party Games for Windows Live title) for PC and Xbox 360 from Sega. While the preview is of the the ...
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by Richard on June 29, 2007
Civilization will make its grand return to game consoles in Spring 2008 with the release of Civilization Revolution -- a new entry in the classic series with gameplay specifically tuned for console ga...
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by Richard on June 29, 2007
Games for Windows Live -- Microsoft's version of Xbox Live for PCs running Windows Vista -- is about to get its first third-party release in the form of Universe at War from Sega. While Microsof...
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by Richard on June 28, 2007
We've finally got a US release date for Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi's first post-Squaresoft RPG, Blue Dragon: August 28th. While Blue Dragon didn't exactly save the Xbox 360 i...
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by Richard on June 28, 2007
Earlier this month Bethesda treated us to a short look at their first entry into the Fallout series:
Light on substance, sure, but even someone like myself with little exposure to the series can te...
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by Richard on May 31, 2007
Dig your copy of Dead Rising out from under the bed (why do you keep your games down there, anyway?) -- there's some cool new and, most importantly, free content available for download:Name: Pure ...
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by Richard on May 30, 2007
Tired of staring at the same old tiles and cards in Catan? ...Yeah, me neither -- but if you've got 150 points burning a hole in your Xpocket360 feel free to download the new "Mayfair" ...
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by Richard on May 30, 2007
Team17 has released some new Worms content to eager fans -- and half of it is free! That's right, for the low low cost of nothing you can get the new Space landscape (pictured above) and you can ...
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by Richard on May 24, 2007
Blizzard revealed the long-awaited sequel to real-time strategy giant StarCraft at a press event in Korea last week. While we're some time away from even beginning to speculate on a release date,...
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by Richard on May 21, 2007
The Halo 3 beta slowly sputtered to life last Wednesday as a bug in Crackdown kept players from downloading the game -- Microsoft had a patch ready by the end of the day but Bungie has decided to go ...
