| | No running and gunning in Mass Effect 3 | 
Geoffrey Tim - January 31st, 2012 | Well, not on Hardcore or Insanity. Instead, on those difficulty levels you’ll be forced to actually use your brains. You’ll also no longer be able to rely on your squad mates picking the right powers for the task at hand - leaving squad tactics in your capable hands.“We really thought about it hard. On Normal you’ll be able to power your way through ... [»] | 
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| Ken Levine is disappointed in your boob-focus in Bioshock Infinite | 
Darryn Bonthuys - January 4th, 2012 | With 2012 gearing up to be yet another banner year for gaming, one of the highlights on the horizon is Bioshock Infinite. The upcoming FPS takes place decades before the original games, and swops the objectivist underwater utopia setting for a paradise in the sky that is tainted with an ongoing civil war between factions.
Caught in the middle of that, is our main protagonist Booker, and Elizabeth, a naive yet wonderfully developed leading ... [»] |
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| Moosa’s Musings – 3 Cliché plot devices games must stop using | 
Tauriq Moosa - November 21st, 2011 | Dear Game Developers
We are not (all) half-brained, drooling hunks of sweating meat, awkwardly clutching controllers in front of a television screen, from where the sounds of explosions and/or (usually scantily clad) screaming women and/or sparkly noises emerge. Contrary to what some might think, many of us do care about things like stories, characters and motivations. So you’re not fooling us when you dig into Hollywood’s or Marvel Comic’s recycle bin. We know you’re getting lazy and it’s insulting to ... [»] | 
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| Download Your Own Free BioShock Monopoly Set | 
Nick de Bruyne - November 1st, 2011 | You love Bioshock. You love Monopoly. You could never figure out how to bring these two loves together… until now.
Kotaku has pointed to a fantastic custom Bioshock ‘mod’ that lets you play a way cooler version of Monopoly than they are used to and the best part is that you can get it completely free. Just download it, print it and voila, ... [»] |
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| Bioshock Infinite Boss Battles will be more “substantial” | 
Darryn Bonthuys - October 19th, 2011 | Bioshock: Infinite is looking incredible so far, and it’s a damn shame that we can’t play it until next year. Geoff has been gushing over it, ever since he got a chance to see it earlier this year, and from what we’ve seen so far, it has legendary stamped all over it.
But Bioshock does have one noticeable flaw, something that has popped up in ... [»] | 
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| It’s all Elizabeth’s fault! | 
Darryn Bonthuys - October 14th, 2011 | Columbia, that city in the skies was a relatively peaceful place, and then all hell broke loose. Citizens have had to pick a side, either with the extreme elitist Founders, or with the deadly democrats the Vox Populi.
Needless to say, a lot of blood is being shed and people are dying by the bucketload. And it’s all the fault of Elizabeth, your naive sidekick as you make your way through this aerial Civil War.“When ... [»] |
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| Moosa’s Musings : "Dear Gaming World, Let Me Kill Your Kids. Love, Maturity" | 
Tauriq Moosa - September 22nd, 2011 | Here’s what you can do in modern gaming:
You can become a god that sacrifices small children in your ever burning altar (Black and White); you can have a gun, don a nasty Russian accent, and slaughter dozens of civilians in an airport (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2); you can control the denizens of Hell or something equivalent, and torture good souls trying to stop your evil intents on the world (Dungeon Keeper); you can destroy a small post-apocalyptic ... [»] |
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| John Shirley’s Bioshock: Rapture Novel Hits Shelves | 
Nick de Bruyne - July 20th, 2011 | Sci-Fi / Fantasy writer John Shirley's freshly penned novel Bioshock: Rapture, obviously based on the video game that we all know and love, is now available for purchase.
As stated on the front cover, Bioshock: Rapture is "The Prequel to the Award-winning and Bestselling Video Game Franchise". That's right, the book serves as a prequel to the first game, telling the story of ... [»] |
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| Bioshock Infinite–what went wrong | 
Gavin Mannion - June 21st, 2011 | We voted it our game of the show for E3 2011 and it’s one of the most anticipated titles of our current time but what exactly is the story behind Bioshock Infinite? We know it’s about a floating city, Columbia, that is currently at war but what we ... [»] |
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| What are the top 5 games for each console | 
Gavin Mannion - May 16th, 2011 | Have you just crawled out of a rock and don’t have anything to play on your shiny new PS3, Wii or Xbox 360? Well then this list is just for you and for the rest of you maybe you missed something that you didn’t know what amazing before. ... [»] |
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| Bioshock’s Ken Levine explains why the first-person perspective is so engaging | 
Geoffrey Tim - February 24th, 2011 | For most gamers, the mention of “first person†automatically invokes images of nicely modelled guns and, depending on your skills, swathes of dead enemies. For legendary game designer Ken Levine - whose work you’ve sampled in System Shock 2, SWAT 4 and more recently BioShock – its a way of offering a level of immersion that harkens back to childhood. He’s related why he feels games ... [»] |
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| The BioShock movie is, very likely, dead | 
Miklós Szecsei - February 16th, 2011 | Why are we not surprised? 2K’s phenomenal first-person shooter was supposed to be turned into a movie. The pre-production for the film has pretty much died and it’s largely because of age restrictions. Gore Verbinski was in charge of it; he’s directed films like the first three Pirates of the Caribbean ... [»] |
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| Call of Grand Theft Hero 700 anyone? | 
Miklós Szecsei - February 14th, 2011 | Because Activision is eying publisher Take-Two. Last week Bobby and pals took an axe-guitar to the Guitar Hero and DJ Hero IPs. This has left the industry’s biggest publisher with a gaping hole where an over-milked franchise used to be. The solution? Fill that hole with another franchise, like Grand Theft Auto.With Take-Two ... [»] |
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| Insane People Recreate Bioshock’s Rapture… In Minecraft | 
Nick de Bruyne - October 20th, 2010 | Minecraft has been taking the gaming world by storm over the past few months, and crazy videos of insane creations have been popping up left right and centre.Videos like these though, show an intense amount of dedication that very few of us could honestly ever pull off. The creators of this ... [»] | 
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