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DUST 514 Rewards system explained by CCP – Part 1
0By: Moses Abaortae | December 16th, 2012 |Uncategorized
The free-to-play game has a number of ways for rewarding those who play the game, which is set to hit the PlayStation 3 next year in 2013. A number of publishers are developing titles for an emerging business model in the industry. The free-to-play or rather, freemium, gaming model revolves around the concept of making a game available to the player for free, with extra content...
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Dota 2 Heroes – An introduction to Magina the Anti-Mage
By: Jason McCarthy | December 14th, 2012 |Featured
Magina the Anti-Mage is every intelligence hero’s nightmare. Arguably one of the best agility hard carry hero in Defense of the Ancients (Dota) 2, he will be normally picked when the other team has a range of heroes that rely heavily on mana. Arguably the most hated hero in the entire game, Anti-Mage is an extremely hard hero to kill as he has an innate ability to escape foes...
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‘Metro: Last Light’ for Wii U dropped due to quality issues
By: Jason McCarthy | December 14th, 2012 |Uncategorized
THQ representative concedes work on a Wii U version of Metro: Last Light started, but was cancelled quite early on in development. There are a number of games that are skipping Nintendo’s first-ever HD console, but there has hardly been any game that has received as much spotlight as Metro: Last Light for not being developed for the new console. The head of global communic...
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Dark Souls II for Wii U online petition get 10,000 signatories
By: Jason McCarthy | December 14th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Online petition asking the Dark Souls II makers to bring the game to Nintendo’s next-generation console nets 10,000 signatures. The online petition created at Change.org is apparently picking up steam as the number of signatories has reached the 10,000 mark, a notable improve over the figure of 3,000 that it was sitting on following the previous weekend. Ever since the 201...
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No online multiplayer in Nintendo Land justified by Nintendo
By: Jason McCarthy | December 14th, 2012 |Uncategorized
The company justifies no online support for Nintendo Land, contending that it encourages real-world interaction between players in the same room. Nearly everything that Nintendo has done over the last few months have led to a debate over the correctness of that particular decision. One of the recent reasons for the Japan-based company to find itself in the hot-seat is its de...
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Google reports Diablo 3 among top 5 trending searches during 2012
By: Jason McCarthy | December 14th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Royalty and Hollywood may be popular, but if what the company behind the world’s best search engine reported is to be believed, the aforementioned topics have not been as appealing as Diablo 3 during the current year. Blizzard Entertainment’s immensely popular action role-playing game Diablo 3 has ended up in the top 5 on Google’s top trending searches this year as per th...
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Dota 2 Heroes – An Introduction to Nessaj the Chaos Knight
By: Jason McCarthy | December 13th, 2012 |Featured
Nessaj the Chaos Knight is an ideal choice for Defense of the Ancients (Dota) 2 players who have strong faith in their luck. While the element of surprise keeps him from becoming one of the strongest heroes in the game, he can surely prove to be devastating because of his capability to deal massive amount of damage and stun his opponents for as long as 4 seconds. Chaos Knig...
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Gaming industry undergoing evolution, more unpredictable than ever
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | December 13th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Insomniac Games boss believes video game industry has become challenging, while adding that developers have been lucky to work in a stable environment for the past 20 years. Things are changing at a notable pace in the gaming industry, something that has not gone unnoticed by the publishers, developers, analysts and gamers. Whether these changes are good or bad for the overa...
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Rovio announces Angry Birds film for 2016
By: Jason McCarthy | December 13th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Rovio, studio behind the Angry Bird franchise, has announced its plans to bring the feathery protagonists with serious anger management issues to the big screen in Summer 2016. The studio will be working with Despicable Me producer John Cohen, who has signed on to produce the 3D CGI film, while the executive producer of Iron Man and former Chairman of Marvel Studios David Maise...
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Dishonored Dunwall City Trials details released
By: Moses Abaortae | December 13th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Comes with 10 Challenge maps and new trophies for those looking for more out of Arkane’s brilliant new IP. The game sneaked its way onto E3 earlier on in the year and since then held nearly everyone’s interest. Haunting trailers, an intriguing marketing campaign and a steady stream of announcements had everyone keeping a close eye on the promising title. Many likened the ga...
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Street Fighter and Rochard free on PlayStation Plus
By: Moses Abaortae | December 13th, 2012 |Uncategorized
The latest update for Sony’s premium PlayStation Network subscription service brings two free games to the table with Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition and Rochard. The latest update for the PlayStation Plus subscription service sees only two pieces of content both of them are free games. Sony has been pushing its premium subscription service in the past few months a...
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EA announce Crysis 3 release date
By: Moses Abaortae | December 13th, 2012 |Uncategorized
CryTek will be releasing their third instalment in the visually breath taking series on the 19th and 22nd of February in the United States and Europe respectively. Electronic Arts recently release Medal of Honor: Warfighter and the game has not done as well as the publisher would have hoped. However, Plan B seems to be in place as the publisher is bringin...
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The Last of Us has multiplayer!
By: Moses Abaortae | December 13th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Naughty Dog also announce Pre-order bonuses for the game as well as dropping a multiplayer bombshell in there as well. The studio that brought the world the critically acclaimed Uncharted series, Naughty Dog, is currently working on its latest project. The Last of Us is a post-apocalyptic survival-adventure game set in a world where the majority of the human population has been...
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Black Ops 2 beings December where it left off
By: Moses Abaortae | December 13th, 2012 |Uncategorized
United Kingdom: Activision’s latest instalment in the Call of Duty series spends its fourth week at number one in the software sales charts as Far Cry 3 holds on for another second place finish. With the month of November having passed everyone by and December now upon us, the software sales charts make for some similar reading at the top with only one new entry in the top te...
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Mechanic from Illinois wins US edition of GT Academy 2012
By: Moses Abaortae | December 13th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Sony’s Gran Turismo inspired reality television series sees another season come to a close as Pete Doherty is awarded the honour of being Champion and is set to drive in the 24 hours race in Dubai. When the television series first began, no one really understood just how life changing doing a few laps in Gran Turismo 5 could potentially be. The developers of the game, Polypho...
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Assassin’s Creed 3 dominates the PlayStation PAL Charts
By: Moses Abaortae | December 13th, 2012 |Uncategorized
The PAL Charts encompass the Arab Emirates, Australia, Great Britain, New Zealand among others, and it seems the most downloaded game via the PlayStation Store in those regions is a certain Ubisoft title. Different from the US region, the PAL regions can be classified as Region 2 and Sony recently released the do...
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Dota 2 Heroes – An introduction to Traxex the Drow Ranger
By: Jason McCarthy | December 12th, 2012 |Featured
Traxex the Drow Ranger is a pretty-much right-click agility hard carry ranged-hero who suffers from being extremely frail, but pretty much makes up for it through her skills. She can kite like none other, not only because of her skills but also because her auto-attack range is 625. Her first skill Frost Arrows is a toggle ability that will apply freezing effect to your auto-att...
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Console version of Diablo III ‘up and running’ at Blizzard
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | December 12th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Blizzard claims to have a console version of Diablo 3 ‘up and running’. Not an official project at the company despite ‘looking pretty cool’. A console version of the critically and commercially action role-playing video game Diablo 3 is something that Blizzard Entertainment has been flirting with for quite some time now. From time to time, the company had hinted its...
