Ralph Baer believes games have become "a disgrace"

Who is Ralph Baer? Well sit down, whippersnapper! Time to learn you about the father of video games! Ralph Baer has such a prestigious title because he is the mastermind by the first real game consoles; the Brown Box and

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Ralph Baer believes games have become "a disgrace"

Who is Ralph Baer? Well sit down, whippersnapper! Time to learn you about the father of video games! Ralph Baer has such a prestigious title because he is the mastermind by the first real game consoles; the Brown Box and

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Review: Kirby's Return to Dreamland

Suddenly, with little warning, a new Kirby game. And not just a new Kirby game: the first great Kirby game since the underappreciated Kirby: Canvas Curse. Watching it at E3, there were doubts in my mind how Kirby would take

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Review: Kirby's Return to Dreamland

Suddenly, with little warning, a new Kirby game. And not just a new Kirby game: the first great Kirby game since the underappreciated Kirby: Canvas Curse. Watching it at E3, there were doubts in my mind how Kirby would take

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On Disc DLC: What Are You Going to do About It?

Epic Games has joined the list of publishers including DLC on their discs with the Horde Command Pack for Gears of War 3. Executive producer Rod Fergusson discussed their reasoning: “We’re not saying that everything on the disc is the

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On Disc DLC: What Are You Going to do About It?

Epic Games has joined the list of publishers including DLC on their discs with the Horde Command Pack for Gears of War 3. Executive producer Rod Fergusson discussed their reasoning: “We’re not saying that everything on the disc is the

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Australian Classification: The Beliefs of the Few Dictate the Rights of the Many.

The revised guidelines for Australia’s game classification have been released, and they’re a bit concerning. In the context of violence for example, it reads: “Violence is permitted. High impact violence that is, in context, frequently gratuitous, exploitative and offensive to

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Australian Classification: The Beliefs of the Few Dictate the Rights of the Many.

The revised guidelines for Australia’s game classification have been released, and they’re a bit concerning. In the context of violence for example, it reads: “Violence is permitted. High impact violence that is, in context, frequently gratuitous, exploitative and offensive to

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GoG Proves That There's a Market For Old Games

Speaking to Edge Magazine, GOG managing director Guillaume Rambourg discussed Good Old Games’ success, Publisher apprehension, and Witcher 2 sales. “Well, this has been a very, very long journey – when we started in 2008, we were talking to publishers

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GoG Proves That There's a Market For Old Games

Speaking to Edge Magazine, GOG managing director Guillaume Rambourg discussed Good Old Games’ success, Publisher apprehension, and Witcher 2 sales. “Well, this has been a very, very long journey – when we started in 2008, we were talking to publishers

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More Mass Effect 3 multiplayer munchables

Bioware’s Mass Effect 3 producer Jesse Houston was recently interviewed in order to answer some questions for the fans of the upcoming climax of the sci-fi trilogy. Here’s the juicy bits: You can completely ignore the multiplayer if you don’t

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More Mass Effect 3 multiplayer munchables

Bioware’s Mass Effect 3 producer Jesse Houston was recently interviewed in order to answer some questions for the fans of the upcoming climax of the sci-fi trilogy. Here’s the juicy bits: You can completely ignore the multiplayer if you don’t

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I ain't afraid of no Phantasmaburbia

It’s long been my opinion that indie developers should latch onto an obscure but happily received classic and run with its ideas. The indie platformer community has done this with Super Mario Brothers 2 (or Doki Doki Panic) and I’ve

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I ain't afraid of no Phantasmaburbia

It’s long been my opinion that indie developers should latch onto an obscure but happily received classic and run with its ideas. The indie platformer community has done this with Super Mario Brothers 2 (or Doki Doki Panic) and I’ve

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Review: Dungeon Defenders

Fate, cruel and twisted, conspired to prevent me from reviewing this game. I think it all started when I bought the game a scant twelve hours before we would get an official review copy like some sort of real video

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Review: Dungeon Defenders

Fate, cruel and twisted, conspired to prevent me from reviewing this game. I think it all started when I bought the game a scant twelve hours before we would get an official review copy like some sort of real video

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A Portable Hole in the heart

I miss when fantasy could be just that: fantasy. I miss optimistic worlds, where things might get rough but the player characters could pull through in the end. I miss the sense of wonder at what’s different, and the appreciation

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A Portable Hole in the heart

I miss when fantasy could be just that: fantasy. I miss optimistic worlds, where things might get rough but the player characters could pull through in the end. I miss the sense of wonder at what’s different, and the appreciation

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Fancy On The Outside, Rotten At The Core – A Sequence Review

Sequence is a very special game, as it combines the rhythm and RPG genres, much like Puzzle Quest combined the seemingly utterly unrelated genres puzzle and RPG. However, Puzzle Quest was actually rather good, whereas Sequence examines the two genres,

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Fancy On The Outside, Rotten At The Core – A Sequence Review

Sequence is a very special game, as it combines the rhythm and RPG genres, much like Puzzle Quest combined the seemingly utterly unrelated genres puzzle and RPG. However, Puzzle Quest was actually rather good, whereas Sequence examines the two genres,

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