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CBS Sports Doesn't take Kindly to Professional Gaming

Earlier this week, IGN teamed up with Utah Jazz player, Gordon Hayward, to release a humorous video that he’d be spending the ongoing NBA lockout as a professional Starcraft 2 player in order to promote his appearance and participation at

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CBS Sports Doesn't take Kindly to Professional Gaming

Earlier this week, IGN teamed up with Utah Jazz player, Gordon Hayward, to release a humorous video that he’d be spending the ongoing NBA lockout as a professional Starcraft 2 player in order to promote his appearance and participation at

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Oniken Preview

Warning: This preview includes detailed mechanical spoilers but minimal narrative spoilers. Oniken, like La Mulana before it, is a love letter to gaming days of yore. An era where limited color palettes, memory and chiptunes more or less forced developers

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Oniken Preview

Warning: This preview includes detailed mechanical spoilers but minimal narrative spoilers. Oniken, like La Mulana before it, is a love letter to gaming days of yore. An era where limited color palettes, memory and chiptunes more or less forced developers

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Review – Avadon: The Black Fortress

One of writer Kurt Vonnegut’s rules for writing engaging fiction was thus: Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. He had a

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Review – Avadon: The Black Fortress

One of writer Kurt Vonnegut’s rules for writing engaging fiction was thus: Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. He had a

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The Cold Season: Iron Grip: Warlord

The Cold Season is an exploration of independent video game Iron Grip: Warlord, a FPS/Tower Defense hybrid available via Steam et al. It’s quite good, and worth checking out, especially if you have friends to play it with. This is

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The Cold Season: Iron Grip: Warlord

The Cold Season is an exploration of independent video game Iron Grip: Warlord, a FPS/Tower Defense hybrid available via Steam et al. It’s quite good, and worth checking out, especially if you have friends to play it with. This is

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Returning to Eorzea: How Has Final Fantasy XIV Evolved In The 9 Months Since Its Release?

    Final Fantasy. The name alone carries a lot of weight. It’s the second best selling RPG franchise in the world after Pokemon and typically viewed as the de facto RPG franchise in gaming. A brand that has turned

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Returning to Eorzea: How Has Final Fantasy XIV Evolved In The 9 Months Since Its Release?

    Final Fantasy. The name alone carries a lot of weight. It’s the second best selling RPG franchise in the world after Pokemon and typically viewed as the de facto RPG franchise in gaming. A brand that has turned

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Jamestown Review

Jamestown in an inde shoot-em-up developed and published by Final Form games for the PC. When I first heard the title Jamestown, I am not sure what I thought, but I can assure you it was not shmup set on

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Jamestown Review

Jamestown in an inde shoot-em-up developed and published by Final Form games for the PC. When I first heard the title Jamestown, I am not sure what I thought, but I can assure you it was not shmup set on

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Indie Impressions: Starfarer

Trying to come to grips with games released in alpha is often a daunting task. It works better for some games than others; certain games have a core mechanic that compels you to keep playing regardless of any lack of

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Indie Impressions: Starfarer

Trying to come to grips with games released in alpha is often a daunting task. It works better for some games than others; certain games have a core mechanic that compels you to keep playing regardless of any lack of

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Some Good News: Desktop Dungeons

We’ve had a day full of mediocre E3 news, announcements of consoles and not of any particularly thrilling games, so you need some good news. Something to take the pain away. Something mindless, but particularly entertaining. Well, here’s the demo

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Some Good News: Desktop Dungeons

We’ve had a day full of mediocre E3 news, announcements of consoles and not of any particularly thrilling games, so you need some good news. Something to take the pain away. Something mindless, but particularly entertaining. Well, here’s the demo

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REVIEW: The Brink of a Genre, Worth Exploring

Brink was developed by Splash Damage and published by Bethesda Softworks for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows PC. It was directed by Paul Wedgewood, Richard Ham, Olivier Leonardi, Chris Sweetman, Arnout van Meer, Richard Jolly and Stephen Gaffney.

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REVIEW: The Brink of a Genre, Worth Exploring

Brink was developed by Splash Damage and published by Bethesda Softworks for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows PC. It was directed by Paul Wedgewood, Richard Ham, Olivier Leonardi, Chris Sweetman, Arnout van Meer, Richard Jolly and Stephen Gaffney.

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Disembodied

So! We have that one thing we call the Omnitopic (which you should all enter, because there are prizes!) going on here at Nightmare Mode, and…this would be the first entry. But Patricia, you might ask, what in the world

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Disembodied

So! We have that one thing we call the Omnitopic (which you should all enter, because there are prizes!) going on here at Nightmare Mode, and…this would be the first entry. But Patricia, you might ask, what in the world

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