| | Max Payne 3’s multiplayer issues | 
Geoffrey Tim - May 17th, 2012 | It seems that Diablo III’s not the only game to suffer from launch issues. Rockstar’s Max Payne 3 - which has been cleaning up in reviews, even being called Rockstar’s best game to date - seems to have a few multiplayer issues. Players on both the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game have been reporting multiple multiplayer issues, including matchmaking problems ... [»] |
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| Bioware wants your suggestions for the next Dragon Age | 
Geoffrey Tim - May 17th, 2012 | Dragon Age Origins, the spiritual successor to Baldur’s Gate (without the IP attached to it, unfortunately), was a pleasant surprise for me. Sure, it was a Bioware game and I should have expected it to be awesome - but I hadn’t. Conversely, I expected Dragon Age 2 to be life-changing - and all it changed was my opinion of Bioware. It wasn’t necessarily a bad game, just ... [»] | 
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| The Ghost Recon Future soldier Launch trailer has no boobs in it | 
Geoffrey Tim - May 16th, 2012 | The last Ghost Recon: Future Soldier promotional is probably one of the worst bits of misplaced video game marketing I’ve ever had the displeasure of watching. I love boobs as much as the next guy, but that nonsense was a great example of trying to hammer a square peg in to a circular hole. Thankfully, Ubisoft seems to have come to its senses, as this, the game’s launch trailer is much, ... [»] | 
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| So when is Darksiders II coming, exactly? | 
Geoffrey Tim - May 16th, 2012 | I rather enjoyed Darksiders. It had its problems, and was accused of being derivative, but I loved playing a more grown-up Zelda-styled game. Naturally, I’ve been looking forward to to its sequel featuring Death (that’s with a capital “D”) instead of War - and was more than a little bummed when THQ announced that it would ... [»] |
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| Capcom blames poor SFxT sales on cannibalism | 
Geoffrey Tim - May 16th, 2012 | I really like Capcom’s crossover collaboration,. Street fighter X Tekken. It’s a deceptively complex, fun little fighter, held together with some genuine innovation. It hasn’t performed quite as well at retail as Capcom would’ve liked though - selling short of the company’s expectations and moving just 1.6 million units worldwide since its launch. Why? Too many fighting games in too short a time, ... [»] |
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| THQ drops Devil’s Third | 
Geoffrey Tim - May 16th, 2012 | Publisher THQ is in a bit of a financial pickle - and we’ve speculated that one of the reasons for that is that they’ve pretty much been throwing money at Itagaki’s new Valhalla Game Studios. THQ was to publish Itagaki’s Devil’s Third - a stylish, violent third-person action slasher/shooter from the Ninja Gaiden developer. Well, not any more.Citing unexpected development costs resulting from ... [»] |
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| Blizzard aren’t making Diablo for the console, maybe | 
Gavin Mannion - May 16th, 2012 | According to the Diablo 3 game director, Jay Wilson, they haven’t even started experimenting on making a console port of Diablo 3 even though they advertised for someone to help with the conversion. No they just stated that in the advert to entice quality employees but in reality ... [»] | 
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| New The Last of Us Trailer is revealed | 
Gavin Mannion - May 16th, 2012 | Do you remember that awesome surprise trailer from Naughty Dog last year for their upcoming survival title, The Last of Us?
Well Naughty Dog have released a brand new trailer showing even more incredible in game footage from the title, while we are yet to see any actual gameplay the cut scenes ... [»] | 
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| Call of Duty critic and user scores over the years | 
Gavin Mannion - May 15th, 2012 | While stumbling through reddit, which BTW takes up far too much time in my day, I came across this chart that plots the critic and user scores for each Call of Duty title over the years. What is most surprising really is how the user score is following ... [»] |
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| The Xbox 360 owes its success to Sony’s mistakes | 
Geoffrey Tim - May 15th, 2012 | Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is the global (well, mostly US) leader when it comes to current gen consoles. It’s been the top selling console in the Us for the last 15 or so weeks and is, by any measure, a success. Former president of Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices Division Robbie Bach believes Sony’s poor handling of the transition between the PlayStation 2 and ... [»] |
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| Max Payne 3 Review Roundup | 
Gavin Mannion - May 15th, 2012 | So all the excitement for us yesterday was the impending release of Diablo 3 but over in America they had another massive release with Max Payne 3 also hitting the store shelves at the very same time. It will be interesting to compare sales in the coming weeks ... [»] |
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| Here’s Dragon’s Dogma’s Launch Trailer | 
Geoffrey Tim - May 14th, 2012 | I’ve said a lot about Dragon’s Dogma over the last few weeks. I’ve played a good portion of it, and I’m excited for its release. It’s Capcom’s first foray in to open-world high fantasy, and it’s filled, as you’d expect with all manner of beats - like Dragons (obviously), giant cockatrices, ouroboroses, Cyclopses and countless more. Because of its open-world nature its drawing a ... [»] |
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| Moosa’s Musings: What’s the point of game reviews? | 
Tauriq Moosa - May 14th, 2012 | Gavin recently noted that games that receive almost universal dislike from professional reviewers still sometimes sell better than ones highly praised. For example, Sniper Elite V2 sold better at one point than Mass Effect 3. Ignoring for the moment that sales don’t indicate quality – Twilight, anyone? – it is still interesting to wonder about game reviews’ purpose, in general. After all, if reviews that universally hated a game do nothing to reduce a game’s sales, then what ... [»] |
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