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Review: Spec Ops: The Line pushing boundaries or over-hyped? – 3
0By: Moses Abaortae | October 26th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Part 3: Atmosphere Apart from the desolate environments, the game constantly reminds you of the overall grim, desperate tone of the game. Soldiers can be heard talking to one another like everyday guys, discussing sports, their family and friendship and unlike other games, where they are the bad guys, this time around you just don’t know why you’re killi...
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Review: Spec Ops: The Line pushing boundaries or over-hyped? – 2
By: Moses Abaortae | October 26th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Part 2: Story Players will be wondering what the hell is going on in the game from the second they are ambushed for the first time till the very end where it all comes together. The story unfolds in layers with the main character, Walker, and his two squad mates Lugo and Adams both sent to recon the area after a distress call was received from the ruins of D...
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Kickstarter campaign for Star Citizen raises funds beyond target
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | October 25th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Funding through Kickstarter has proven to be quite successful for many developers in recent times, with Chris Roberts getting his name added to the list. The creator of critically acclaimed Wing Commander and Freelancer recently had recently come out of retirement from the gaming industry to start working on his latest space combat simulator Star Citizen, which has been in deve...
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Kratos vs. Leonidas, God of War: Ascension gets exclusive bonus
By: Musa Afridi | October 25th, 2012 |Uncategorized
GameStop is offering gamers a chance to have King Leonidas, from the motion picture epic, 300, a part of their God of War package as they announce the character's armour and spear, as well as a double-sided poster for those who pre-order the game. Gerard Butler’s likeness may not be in the game but everything e...
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Resident Evil dev getting all kinds of creative ideas for Wii U
By: Musa Afridi | October 25th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Koshi Nakanishi, the director of Resident Evil Revelations for the Nintendo 3DS, is excited by the prospect of bringing the long running series to the next-gen console and let the creative juices flow with the GamePad’s capabilities and features. The Nintendo Wii U is set to be released later on this month and it already has an impressive looking launch line up with the likes...
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SimCity release date slightly pushed back, confirms EA
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | October 25th, 2012 |Uncategorized
The fans of the city-building simulation SimCity will have to wait longer, though just slightly, as publisher Electronic Arts (EA) announced that the release date of the game has been pushed to March, 2013. The game was originally scheduled to come out somewhere in February next year, but due to undisclosed reasons, some additional time has been bought by the company. The sl...
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Assassin’s Creed 3 DLC is almost an education in American history
By: Musa Afridi | October 24th, 2012 |Uncategorized
The scriptwriter for the game, Matt Turner, explains that the Benedict Arnold DLC is as accurate as “history books would allow” although there were a few creative liberties that were taken. The Assassin’s Creed games have a reputation of being set in some of the most rich periods in human history, albeit rich with violence, war and struggle, but rich none the less. That t...
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Benedict Arnold story “flowed really well” with Assassin’s Creed 3
By: Musa Afridi | October 24th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Matt Turner, the scriptwriter for Ubisoft’s upcoming game, explained how the idea of including the notorious traitor came about and how it fit in so well with the existing story that they just could not pass up the chance to include it. It should be noted at the start that the Benedict Arnold DLC is a PlayStati...
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PlayStation 3 users get exclusive Assassin’s Creed 3 missions for free
By: Musa Afridi | October 24th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Ubisoft has confirmed that their PS3 version of the game has an extra four-mission story arc exclusive to the console as the momentum building up to its release reaches fever pitch. Assassin’s Creed always turns heads when it is mentioned in the game-isphere, as the IP from Ubisoft has built the series up into one of the biggest name in the world of video games. From its humb...
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Medal of Honor Warfighter 1- hour trial added to PlayStation Plus
By: Musa Afridi | October 24th, 2012 |Uncategorized
The PS+ Update brings EA’s first-person shooter to subscribers as well as a 10% discount on Need for Speed: Most Wanted. No free games this week, but there is still plenty to keep PlayStation Plus subscribers happy and snobby at the same time, as Sony is giving subscribers to their premium service the chance to try out Medal of Honor: Warfighter for free before they purchase ...
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Investors assure Mob Rules Games head of their support for development of the Kickstarter project
By: Jason McCarthy | October 23rd, 2012 |Uncategorized
When developer Mob Rules Games head Rick Dakan revealed in an update on Haunts: The Manse Macabre project page that the Kickstarted project had come across some serious complications, it seemed that the backers who had invested in the project would become furious. Keeping this in mind and taking responsibility for not being able to fulfil his obligations towards those who had p...
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Kickstarted Haunts: The Manse Macabre in a hitch as programmers quit
By: Jason McCarthy | October 23rd, 2012 |Uncategorized
The Kickstarter projects were always going to have a significant amount of risk attached to them and thus the halt of Haunts: The Manse Macabre’s development hardly comes as a surprise. Mob Rules Games head Rick Dakan has admitted that the project is going through a pretty rough patch right now and he is not completely certain about its fate as two of the programmers working ...
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League of Legends Season 2 World Championships breaks eSports viewership record
By: Jason McCarthy | October 23rd, 2012 |Uncategorized
A few weeks back, Riot Games was aiming to make the League of Legends Season 2 World Championships the biggest eSports event in history. As per the stats revealed by the company recently, this particular objective was accomplished and that too with a pretty convincing margin, shattering all previous records of online viewership. “It was obviously an honor to be asked to co...
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Far Cry 3 can compete with Halo 4, Black Ops 2 – Ubisoft
By: Musa Afridi | October 23rd, 2012 |Uncategorized
The publisher is not worried about the competition from other titles as it defends its decision to delay the game as it is now set to release between two of the most eagerly anticipated shooters of the year. Ubisoft has made a habit of surprising everyone over the past few years as they did with the mind blowing trailer for Watch Dogs at E3 this year, and also the year before w...
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Preview: The Nintendo Wii U summed up in 423 words – the Bad
By: Moses Abaortae | October 23rd, 2012 |Uncategorized
Nintendo is set to launch its new console during the holiday season and although the sold out pre-orders may suggest otherwise, the Wii U still has a lot of convincing to do, especially for the core gamers that Nintendo is hoping to attract. Games: On the games front Nintendo has expanded its scope in terms of what it plans on offering consumers this time ar...
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Ubisoft secures deal for Assassin’s Creed movie
By: Musa Afridi | October 23rd, 2012 |Uncategorized
Prometheus star, Michael Fassbender, confirmed for the film and Ubisoft maintain creative control of the project as the deal with New Regency is finalized. Hollywood’s lack of originality is apparent. Drawing inspiration from everything that has already proven to be a success, the risk averse industry doesn’t seem to like taking chances. This is probably the reason why the ...
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Sleeping Dogs Halloween DLC has zombies and Smiley Cat
By: Musa Afridi | October 23rd, 2012 |Uncategorized
Square Enix gives everyone the low down on what they can expect with the upcoming DLC for their critically acclaimed title. The downloadable content features the undead, a criminal overlord returning from Hell and a bit of magic. Sleeping Dogs was a surprise for everyone and in a good way. Not ma...
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Origin account required to play EA titles online on Wii U
By: Jason McCarthy | October 23rd, 2012 |Uncategorized
If there is one company that is really an expert when it comes to making gamers mad, it is Electronic Arts (EA). While in the past, the consumers and the publishers were at daggers drawn with each other because of some sort of an issue with an intellectual property (IP) or premium downloadable content (DLC), the latest dissatisfaction is caused by the updated privacy policy doc...
