Yoishi Wada Thinks Japan's Weak Spot Is Core Gameplay

Wada, Square Enixs’ president, divides game design into three distinct pillars: “the core gameplay element, community features, and the hardware platform it’s for.” While he thinks Japanese developers have the latter two down pat, he thinks improvements could be made

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Yoishi Wada Thinks Japan's Weak Spot Is Core Gameplay

Wada, Square Enixs’ president, divides game design into three distinct pillars: “the core gameplay element, community features, and the hardware platform it’s for.” While he thinks Japanese developers have the latter two down pat, he thinks improvements could be made

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Sonic Colors Preorder Bonus Is Terrible

Preorder bonuses usually reflect the interests of the players–usually, they’re just trinkets, or sometimes they’re a recreation of an in-game item. These bonuses usually produce acceptable, neat items which may incentivize you to preorder a game from retailer X over

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Sonic Colors Preorder Bonus Is Terrible

Preorder bonuses usually reflect the interests of the players–usually, they’re just trinkets, or sometimes they’re a recreation of an in-game item. These bonuses usually produce acceptable, neat items which may incentivize you to preorder a game from retailer X over

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First Two Dragon Age 2 Screenshots

Greywardens have just posted the first two screenshots of Dragon Age 2, which we’ve reproduced for you here. Don’t get too excited, though, because the screenshots are…tiny. Notice that the graphics are indeed nicer, but they’re still in the same

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First Two Dragon Age 2 Screenshots

Greywardens have just posted the first two screenshots of Dragon Age 2, which we’ve reproduced for you here. Don’t get too excited, though, because the screenshots are…tiny. Notice that the graphics are indeed nicer, but they’re still in the same

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New Info On Dragon Age II: Importing Origins, Conversation Wheel, More

OH BOY OH BOY, details are starting to trickle over the internets regarding the upcoming Game Informer issue on Dragon Age II…not to mention, I’ve been lurking the Dragon Age forums, watching David Gaider tell people tiny tidbits about the

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New Info On Dragon Age II: Importing Origins, Conversation Wheel, More

OH BOY OH BOY, details are starting to trickle over the internets regarding the upcoming Game Informer issue on Dragon Age II…not to mention, I’ve been lurking the Dragon Age forums, watching David Gaider tell people tiny tidbits about the

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SSF4 Avatar Costumes, Achievements

I’m not one to buy trinkets for my avatar–they’re freaking avatars, for christs sake, they don’t need to wear anything–but these upcoming costumes look really neat. Capcom has announced plans to release a slew of avatar downloads which include the

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SSF4 Avatar Costumes, Achievements

I’m not one to buy trinkets for my avatar–they’re freaking avatars, for christs sake, they don’t need to wear anything–but these upcoming costumes look really neat. Capcom has announced plans to release a slew of avatar downloads which include the

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EVO SSF4 Results: Daigo Wins, Justin Wong Upset

No real surprise on the winner, though it seems as if most people weren’t able to watch the stream during the last critical moments of the final battle between Daigo and Ricky Ortiz. If you missed the stream, we’ve got

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EVO SSF4 Results: Daigo Wins, Justin Wong Upset

No real surprise on the winner, though it seems as if most people weren’t able to watch the stream during the last critical moments of the final battle between Daigo and Ricky Ortiz. If you missed the stream, we’ve got

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Monetizing Failure

Metal Gear Solid 4 is a game designed to make it difficult to stop playing. The mechanics are much more addiction based than previous games in the series, specifically the ability to find and buy weapons. Metal Gear Solid 4

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Monetizing Failure

Metal Gear Solid 4 is a game designed to make it difficult to stop playing. The mechanics are much more addiction based than previous games in the series, specifically the ability to find and buy weapons. Metal Gear Solid 4

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Leliana's Song DLC Review

Leliana’s Song is a 2 to 3 hour Dragon Age DLC that focuses on Leliana’s relationship with her former mentor/lover/employer, Marjolaine, and their falling out. It does a fantastic job of detailing the fact that Leliana has one of the

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Leliana's Song DLC Review

Leliana’s Song is a 2 to 3 hour Dragon Age DLC that focuses on Leliana’s relationship with her former mentor/lover/employer, Marjolaine, and their falling out. It does a fantastic job of detailing the fact that Leliana has one of the

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Emergency Rations

Some days are slow news days. Today is one of those days. There are other days where we have no idea what we could write about. For these situations, we have random, extremely old mash-ups of *the* Cave Story song

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Emergency Rations

Some days are slow news days. Today is one of those days. There are other days where we have no idea what we could write about. For these situations, we have random, extremely old mash-ups of *the* Cave Story song

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A Few Facts About Dragon Age 2's Hawke

Game Informer has just published an article with 5 facts about our future Dragon Age protagonist, Hawke. Most of the facts are things we already knew if we’ve read the press release, or gone to the official Dragon Age 2

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A Few Facts About Dragon Age 2's Hawke

Game Informer has just published an article with 5 facts about our future Dragon Age protagonist, Hawke. Most of the facts are things we already knew if we’ve read the press release, or gone to the official Dragon Age 2

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