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Star Wars: The Old Republic going free starting November 15
0By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | November 11th, 2012 | Uncategorized
The free-to-play model has been becoming increasingly popular with every passing day and it seems that Electronic Arts (EA) and LucasArts, recently acquired by Disney, have been bit by the freemium bug as well. It has hardly been a year since the launch of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) Star Wars: The Old Republic as a subscription-based product, bu...
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No need for a new PlayStation in the market just yet – Part 2
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | November 11th, 2012 | Uncategorized
The smartphones are indeed causing a bit of complication for Sony, with many analysts asserting that a new console is becoming a necessity for the gaming giant to survive in the changing environment. However, Sony is convinced that there is absolutely no need to rush its new hardware before it is really due. A senior company executive had clearly stated earlier this year that h...
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No need for a new PlayStation in the market just yet – Part 1
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | November 11th, 2012 | Uncategorized
The life-cycle of a console is considered to be crucial to its success, a belief that is shared by majority of the analysts in the gaming industry. The uproar over the extended life of Sony’s and Microsoft’s current-generation consoles also acts as an indication of the challenging times that await the two gaming giants because the gamers are not happy with the way things ar...
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Dota 2 Heroes – An Introduction to Slithice, the Naga Siren
By: Jason McCarthy | November 9th, 2012 | Uncategorized
Slithice, the Naga Siren is an agility hero that provides some excellent damage as well as crowd control, therefore allowing allies to get away from some terrible situations. She is a bit frail when it comes to enduring incoming damage, but that is not a huge set-back for her as her abilities do well to increase her survivability, in fact making it extremely hard to kill her. S...
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Dota 2 Heroes – An Introduction to Ethreain, the Lich
By: Jason McCarthy | November 9th, 2012 | Uncategorized
Ethreain the Lich is a very flexible hero who is picked very consistently on a competitive level. He is a great solo, especially against tri-lane, while also being one of the best team-fight heroes in the game. Frost Blast is Lich’s first spell. It is a single-target nuke that deals 200 damage to an enemy along with a 150 additional damage in a small Area of Effect (AoE) of 2...
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What does the leaked Destiny info tell us about the game…
By: Musa Afridi | November 9th, 2012 | Uncategorized
Bungie recently gave a behind-closed-doors presentation on their upcoming title, the details of which have been leaked by an anonymous attendee. So what is the game all about? We take a look. Halo 4 may have hit stores yesterday but it was instantly compared to the previous Halo trilogy and prequel, which was developed by none other than Bungie. The studio created the vast, ric...
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Mark Wahlberg’s Shooter would make a brilliant video game because…
By: Musa Afridi | November 9th, 2012 | Uncategorized
One of the better action movies to have been released over the past few years, The Shooter, starring Mark Wahlberg is another film that would fit right into the world of video games and here’s why… Released in 2007, Shooter became a bit of a cult hit, which its IMDB rating of 7.1 out of 10 would reinforce for those who doubt the statement. The plot summary reads: “A ma...
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Capcom announces major changes, too little too late?
By: Musa Afridi | November 9th, 2012 | Uncategorized
The publisher is set to decrease the amount of work it outsources and is set to grow internally by adding over 2,000 jobs over the course of the next 10 years, but is it the shake up the company needs? The publisher has been on the receiving end of a fair bit of stick in recent years with its habit of releasing multiple versions of what is essentially the same Street Fighter ga...
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Resistance 3 sucks you in…
By: Musa Afridi | November 9th, 2012 | Uncategorized
If you haven’t played Insomniac’s final entry in the Resistance series then you probably should, it only takes a few minutes to hook you… There is age old adage, which has also become a bit of cliché as well, ‘you don’t know what you have until its gone.’ That holds true for Insomniac’s Resistance trilogy on the PlayStation 3. When the first game was released ...
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Ubisoft pretty confident about Wii U’s success
By: Jason McCarthy | November 8th, 2012 | Uncategorized
With Nintendo’s next-generation console Wii U just around the corner, hitting the US market on November 18 to be more precise, a lot of people have become curious regarding its potential to do well in the market. One publisher that seems really optimistic about the performance of the upcoming console is Ubisoft. The publisher’s CEO Yves Guillemot is conceded that his com...
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