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Top 5 overrated video games of all time – Part 5
0By: Jason McCarthy | September 13th, 2012 | Uncategorized
1. Assassin’s Creed It is becoming increasingly common to find this game sitting high in various lists of overrated games and that too for a good reason. Before the game was to be launched, Ubisoft created a lot of hype about a new engine that the company was working on, Anvil. This new technology was to be used to introduce a new genre of gaming, stealth-action-adventure,...
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F1 2012 demos are now live on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
By: Moses Abaortae | September 13th, 2012 | Uncategorized
Codemasters is hoping to entice gamers to buy their upcoming Formula One game ahead of its release in late September with their demo, which gamers can now download and play…unless they’re in Japan. Formula One is one of the biggest sports in the world, with legions upon legions of fans cheering their favourit...
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Rockstar denies GTA 5 release date leak
By: Moses Abaortae | September 13th, 2012 | Uncategorized
The screenshot apparently leaking the release date to Grand Theft Auto 5 has been confirmed as being a fake by the studio as many continue to wait for a street date for the next instalment in the record setting series. Grand Theft Auto 5 is easily the most anticipated game to have been announced in the past six m...
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PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale could get Kat and Abe
By: Musa Afridi | September 12th, 2012 | Uncategorized
The roster for the latest party game from Sony for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita is set to get both Gravity Rush’s Kat while Oddworld’s Abe is being considered. Sony is aiming to target the ‘neglected’ family and party gaming genre with its upcoming title, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, which one can liken to the company’s version of Super Mario Smash B...
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Generals 2 gets single-player campaign
By: Musa Afridi | September 12th, 2012 | Uncategorized
The latest instalment in the Command & Conquer series gets a mode to satisfy players who want to invest in the game’s characters and story as EA’s announces that Generals 2 is not a multiplayer only game. Anyone who remembers the original Generals game will also have noted that the title came with not o...
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EA prone to introducing new concepts, says DICE general manager
By: Jason McCarthy | September 12th, 2012 | Uncategorized
Electronic Arts (EA) is often lambasted by critics for not being innovative enough, a reputation that continues to grow with each new sequel of its popular franchises. DICE general manager Magnus Troedsson, however, disagrees with the notion and believes that the publisher is carrying out a fair bit of innovation. In a recent interview with Gamasutra, the Battlefield studioâ...
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The War Z changes up the free-to-play formula
By: Musa Afridi | September 12th, 2012 | Uncategorized
Hammerpoint Interactive’s latest game is looking to put players money on the line as their death in the game means that they lose all their items, including the ones they paid real money to purchase in an effort to promote a cautious approach to the game. Day Z is a mod that lets gamers play as a survivor in a zombie apocalypse. The game is unforgiving and fellow players, who...
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Study shows that fewer people are playing Video Games
By: Musa Afridi | September 12th, 2012 | Uncategorized
Anita Frazier, an analyst from NPD, has highlighted that the number of core gamers has decreased by 12-million and that next-gen consoles could be the only thing to bring those numbers back up. When the debt and financial crisis hit the world a number of industries suffered, with some feeling the heat more than others. To say it did not affect the video game industry would not ...
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Sony to aid in Skyrim Dawnguard DLC fix
By: Moses Abaortae | September 12th, 2012 | Uncategorized
Bethesda, the developer of the Elder Scrolls series and its latest instalment, Skyrim, admitted earlier that it was struggling to get their latest expansion pack for the PlayStation 3, Dawnguard, to work, and now Sony seem to be lending the studio a hand. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has won nearly every Game of the Year award there was to win, as the open-world RPG, set in the ...
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Mass Effect 3 dev has more games lined up for the Wii U
By: Moses Abaortae | September 12th, 2012 | Uncategorized BioWare may be the principal developer of the Mass Effect games; however, they have handed over the responsibility of porting the game on to the Wii U to fellow studio, Straight Right, which has two other games currently in development for the next generation console. Nintendo Wii U is coming thick and fast at this point as the console nears its impending but as yet unannounced...
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