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Eye Candy, Anticipation And Games: Why Cinematic Intros Should Go Away

As gamers we’ve all experienced the anticipation of a new game that we are really looking forward to playing. With that anticipation, we usually devour all the information we can get about a title. When a game company releases a cinematic intro for our anticipated game, we drool over how awesome the game will be [...]

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Global Agenda: Game Play Video, Thoughts On The Game

I’ve been in Global Agenda’s closed beta for a few months now, and I must say that the game has progressed nicely in that time.  The starting tutorial went from being something very short to one that is very well fleshed out and can take about half an hour to get through.  I recently went [...]

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2010: The Year Of The Cloud For Gamers

We won’t be getting Star Wars: The Old Republic this year. We’ll get Cataclysm for sure, and that is likely to be great but short lived. Mass Effect 2 and BioShock 2 are right around the corner, but your average online PC gamer just might be feeling a little down about 2010′s gaming prospects. To [...]

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Star Wars: The Old Republic – The Wait Is Over…In 2011

So the wait for SWTOR is almost over right? Wrong. It was widely rumored from EA chief John Rittecelo’s recent statement during an EA earnings meeting that SWTOR’s target launch date would be in the spring of 2011. I didn’t know how to feel about that statement as SWTOR wasn’t specifically named in his statement, [...]

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Is Blizzard risking “Dungeon Fatigue”?

I’ve been one of the many singing the praises of Blizzard’s decision to put the Dungeon Finder tool in WoW patch 3.3. It’s been amazingly fun for the most part, although the antisocial among us have a special way of rearing their heads in these dungeons, and it’s also been amazingly productive. My newly 80 [...]