Limbo Developer's Next Project Will Be "More Weird"

What could be weirder than a grayscale platformer starring a child who can die in ways almost as disturbing as the nightmare fuel of Heart of Darkness? We’ll find out soon enough as the folks Playdead have been hard at

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Limbo Developer's Next Project Will Be "More Weird"

What could be weirder than a grayscale platformer starring a child who can die in ways almost as disturbing as the nightmare fuel of Heart of Darkness? We’ll find out soon enough as the folks Playdead have been hard at

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EA Says Battlefield Single-Player Integral To Franchise

Battlefield 3’s multiplayer has been getting rave reviews, but the single-player has been getting the cold shoulder. You’ll hear my take on Monday, but suffice it to say that a lot of folks are wondering why EA and DICE spent

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EA Says Battlefield Single-Player Integral To Franchise

Battlefield 3’s multiplayer has been getting rave reviews, but the single-player has been getting the cold shoulder. You’ll hear my take on Monday, but suffice it to say that a lot of folks are wondering why EA and DICE spent

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Sequels That Should Have Been: Septerra Core

Oh poor, misunderstood Septerra Core. You don’t deserve to only be remembered as the game Steve Downes got the job for Master Chief in Halo from. No two fanbases loathe each other as much as I imagine Japanese and Western

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Sequels That Should Have Been: Septerra Core

Oh poor, misunderstood Septerra Core. You don’t deserve to only be remembered as the game Steve Downes got the job for Master Chief in Halo from. No two fanbases loathe each other as much as I imagine Japanese and Western

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Reviewing Reviews

Review scores, and review readers, are fickle things. We’ve seen this in full recently: the Eurogamer Uncharted 3 review, the Batman: Arkham City 6/5 review from Yahoo, and the response every time Jim Sterling gives a famous game an 8/10.

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Reviewing Reviews

Review scores, and review readers, are fickle things. We’ve seen this in full recently: the Eurogamer Uncharted 3 review, the Batman: Arkham City 6/5 review from Yahoo, and the response every time Jim Sterling gives a famous game an 8/10.

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PBS Off Book Covers Video Games

With oh so lovely networks like Fox News providing us with plenty of ignorant, biased, politically driven garbage in their extensive coverage of video games, it’s nice to see another network giving gamers a break from hearing flat out unpunished

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PBS Off Book Covers Video Games

With oh so lovely networks like Fox News providing us with plenty of ignorant, biased, politically driven garbage in their extensive coverage of video games, it’s nice to see another network giving gamers a break from hearing flat out unpunished

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Tim Cain's Position at Obsidian Temporary

In case you didn’t know, Tim Cain recently joined Obsidian Entertainment as a Senior Programmer. Cain is one of the original creators of Fallout, and was employed at a number of studio’s for all kinds of games. Seems that trend

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Tim Cain's Position at Obsidian Temporary

In case you didn’t know, Tim Cain recently joined Obsidian Entertainment as a Senior Programmer. Cain is one of the original creators of Fallout, and was employed at a number of studio’s for all kinds of games. Seems that trend

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Cooperative Competition and Cardboard

Goldeneye gave me some of my favorite gaming memories. Super Smash Brothers and Mario Kart gave me the others. There’s something about sitting around a coffee table with your friends, eating badly processed boneless chicken wings and laughing as someone

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Cooperative Competition and Cardboard

Goldeneye gave me some of my favorite gaming memories. Super Smash Brothers and Mario Kart gave me the others. There’s something about sitting around a coffee table with your friends, eating badly processed boneless chicken wings and laughing as someone

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Wadjet Eye's Neo-Noir Adventure Gemini Rue Arrives on Steam

This one’s a little close to my heart, so forgive me if I wax poetic here, but Wadjet Eye’s excellent click-and-point adventure Gemini Rue, a game so nice I think I’ll buy it twice, has just appeared on Steam. It

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Wadjet Eye's Neo-Noir Adventure Gemini Rue Arrives on Steam

This one’s a little close to my heart, so forgive me if I wax poetic here, but Wadjet Eye’s excellent click-and-point adventure Gemini Rue, a game so nice I think I’ll buy it twice, has just appeared on Steam. It

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Skyrim's PC Requirements Are Reasonable

Bethesda has officially announced the PC requirements for Skyrim. Surprisingly, even the recommended specs are mostly standard fare on your average off-the-shelf PC. Recommended Specs Windows 7/Vista/XP PC (32 or 64 bit) Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU4GB System RAM

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Skyrim's PC Requirements Are Reasonable

Bethesda has officially announced the PC requirements for Skyrim. Surprisingly, even the recommended specs are mostly standard fare on your average off-the-shelf PC. Recommended Specs Windows 7/Vista/XP PC (32 or 64 bit) Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU4GB System RAM

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Orcs Must Die Review

I have mixed feelings on the tower defense genre. Traditionally they take place from a perspective set way up in the sky with a path for mobs to travel, and the player can ring that path with towers of various

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Orcs Must Die Review

I have mixed feelings on the tower defense genre. Traditionally they take place from a perspective set way up in the sky with a path for mobs to travel, and the player can ring that path with towers of various

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