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WordFight! Dota 2 Edition
As we were discussing our Game of the Year, there was one game that came up again and again: Dota 2. Yes, many of the crew have invested literally hundreds of hours in to it, and it is taking money...
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Opinion – Spoiler Eh…lert
Spoilers. It’s the worst thing to occur to media in the modern age. Because it’s so easy to accidentally spoil something to a larger audience than normal, it’s become more important than take a bit...
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Opinion – Turn and Face the Strange
If you were to wade into the comments section of any DmC Devil May Cry coverage, you would have thought that Ninja Theory personally went into everyone’s house and ripped the head off their precious...
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Opinion – Gotta Catch ‘Em All? Really?
My least favourite modern game design trope (and slowly creeping up to being my least favourite ever) is the ever present, never ending idea of in-game collectible items. Sure, it’s an easy way to...
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Opinion – My Ideal Console
8 core processor! 800mHz DirectX 11.1! Higher skeletal detection!! 1.21 GIGAWATTS OF RAW GAME PROCESSING POWER!! These are but some of the rumoured specs being thrown around for the upcoming Sony and...
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Opinion – How To Make An Alien
I recently had the displeasure of playing and reviewing Aliens: Colonial Marines. I didn’t like it very much, especially compared to what we’d already seen in the past from Aliens games. Since we...
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Opinion – The Great Experiment
You can’t often accuse game franchises of innovation. Sure, a quality first game pushes the possibilities of graphics, storytelling or gameplay, but once that franchise becomes, say, three games old,...
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Opinion – Pre Orders With No Order
As far as publishers go, I really do love WB Games. They never really seem like they’re overmanaging or interfering with creative decisions in the interest of profiteering, plus they make some pretty...
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Opinion – This Crowdfunded Year
You ever heard of the phrase “put your money where your mouth is”? That’s the point behind crowdfunding and crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter or IndieGoGo. While these sites have been around for a...
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Opinion – The Day The Music (And A Part Of Me) Died
Next week, Harmonix will release the final downloadable song for its stable of Rock Band games, ending an 275-week streak of song releases. And sure, not all of the 4,000 tracks were winners — insert...
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Opinion – The Trouble With Transmedia
There’s been some hype as of late for MMO shooter Defiance. For the longest time, all I’d heard about the game was it involved publisher/developer Trion Worlds, creators of the semi-successful MMO...
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Opinion – Stories Worth Fighting For
We are frequently debating about whether fighting games should have stories. After all, these are games that are primarily designed for competition or to be played with other people, single player is...
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Opinion – The Not So Ugly Side Of Transmedia
Transmedia can be an easy target. After all, there are so many terrible book and film adaptations in video games, and developers often have recourse to use cutscenes to tell the story, which highlights...
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Opinion – Nintendo Digitally Direct
Five years ago, I couldn’t seriously picture myself engaging in as many digitally distributed games as I do now. They were all stupidly expensive, had no real benefit over the physical version and took...
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