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Preview: Guild Wars 2

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Guild Wars is a game by NCsoft and Arenanet, released in April of 2005. While it has made an impact on the MMO industry by offering free online play with no subscription, it has been sacked by many due to the fact that the “MMO” part of it is limited to the cities and PVP [...]

All Points Bulletin: APB is Shutting Down

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APB was originally scheduled to be released in 2008, but due to financial issues within Realtime Worlds it was delayed until  June 29th, 2010 in America. The game itself was like a largely multi-player Grand Theft Auto, with a fee required to play in “Action Districts”. The lead designer on the game was David Jones who created [...]

Book Review: Starcraft II: Heaven’s Devils

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Blizzard is notorious amongst the gaming community for the exceptional storytelling behind each and every character, the realities they inhabit and the games that give those worlds life. Heaven’s Devils, penned by William C. Dietz, while not the most superb example of narrative is still notable for the aspects of the overarching Starcraft story that [...]

Valve announces Team Fortress 2 out for Mac tomorrow

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In a not-so-cryptic blog post, Valve has announced that Team Fortress 2 will be out on Mac tomorrow. Why they’ve departed from their normal Wednesday Mac releases, we don’t know, but with the recent delay of Portal 2 and the chaos of E3 right around the corner, we assume they’ve had a lot on their [...]

5 Steam mods worth your hard drive space

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It’s been almost two years since Valve officially launched MODs on their digital distribution and community platform, Steam. Since that launch, we’ve seen a slew of new, massively popular Valve games running on their Source engine (Team Fortress 2, Portal, Left 4 Dead), a massive redesign of the Steam client,  and the global launch of [...]

Blizzard vs. MDY Over Game Ownership, Glider

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If you head down to your local game retailer or snatch a copy online of World of Warcraft, does the game ultimately belong to you or is it merely a vehicle for a license that grants you the ability to use that software with the unwieldy blessing of the developers? That is what is going to [...]

Review: Alpha Protocol

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When Alpha Protocol was announced back in 2008, it was touted as the next step for American RPGs. Two years have passed and following on the heels of such genre-stretching RPGs as Mass Effect 2 and Borderlands, the finished product comes up short, instead revealing itself to be more of a technical blunder with appealing [...]

Here’s that Ezio sackboy you didn’t know you wanted

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Crafty Youtuber GoldenJellyBean is back in action with yet another video game character sackboy. Last time she warmed our hearts over with her Ico doll, and this time she’s recreated the stabby star of Assassin’s Creed 2, Ezio Auditore da Firenze. Not only did she send us some pictures of Ezio, which you can find [...]

2k games reveals Mafia II collectors edition

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Soon to be adding to your growing pile of collector’s editions, Mafia II may be the proof that publishers are willing to give just about any game this special treatment. Announced by 2k games, Mafia II is currently scheduled to make you a wiseguy on 24 August 2010. The collector’s edition will be available for $79.99 on [...]

First Encounter: Fractal

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Games combining music and rhythm have become relatively synonymous with the plastic instruments required to operate them over the past few years. However, players can experience Fractal with nothing more than a keen ear and a mouse. Created by the same development team that gave the gaming community the browser-based title Auditorium, there is little [...]