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My Top 10 Favorite Games Of 2014
We’ve had plenty of good games this year and quite a few great ones, but truthfully I don’t view 2014 as a very memorable period, which made this list tricky to write. Picking the number one entry was difficult because while there was plenty of games that I enjoyed there wasn’t really anything that stood…
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Merry Christmas
My dearest friends, I wish you the merriest merry Christmas possible, filled with laughter and the slow painful death of your many human sacrifices to the Santa Claws. Wait… Doubtless many of you will be heading downstairs or though the house tomorrow in order to open up some loot chests and compare stats. I hope…
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My Top Ten Favorite Movies Of 2014
Aside from games movies hold a very dear place in my heart, and over the past year I’ve even written just a few small pieces on them on this very website. Actually finding the time required to sit down and watch a movie, though, is an altogether different prospect. These days I don’t tend to…
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Marrying Mechanics, Theme And Story. Or Why Ludonarrative Dissonance is A Problem
Ludonarrative dissonance became a massively popular phrase among journalists around 2012-2013, with Bioshock Infinite and Tomb Raider being two games heavily targeted as being guilty of the crime. Sadly, though, most people didn’t actually know what ludonarrative dissonance was and thus the phrase was often mis-used. Journalists would toss the phrase around but never bother…
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Adventurer Manager Review – Shave The Cows And Be Rewarded With Quiche!
Platforms: PC Reviewed On: PC Developer: Vigilant Addiction Studios Publisher: Vigilant Addiction Studios Singleplayer: Yes Multiplayer: No How many times have we taken up sword and shield and stormed a dungeon in the name of loot? How many dark corridors have been plumbed looking for chests? How many monsters have we fought? How many stats…
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DmC: Devil May Cry Definitive Edition Coming To Xbox One And PS4
Ninja Theory’s divisive DmC: Devil May Cry is coming to Xbox One and PS4 in the form of a revamped Definitive Edition. Firstly the game will now run at 1080p and 60FPS on both consoles. But the changes don’t end there. On top of including all the existing DLC the Definitive Edition will contain two…
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Steam Sales Begins On December 18th
According to the folks over at Eurogamer the Steam sale this year is due to begin on December 18th, heralding both the excitement of gamers and the terror facing their bank accounts. Eurogamer say that yesterday a select group of Japanese Paypal users were email about the upcoming sale. One of those people then took…
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Breaking Down Far Cry 4’s Narrative
Spoiler Warning: This entire piece does assume that you’ve already played the game or don’t mind having the story spoiled. If you don’t want to find out what happens stop reading right now. Seriously. Stop. Stahp. Now. Like Far Cry 3 before it Far Cry 4 has some impressive aspects to its narrative design that…
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Has Been Delayed Again, This Time By 12-Weeks
Bad news or good news depending on your point of view; The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has been delayed again, this time for 12-weeks. The new launch date is May 12th, 2015. In an open letter to fans CD Projekt Red cited simple polish and bug hunting as the reason for the delay: “The sheer…
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Street Fighter V Officially Announced For PS4 And PC, Gameplay Trailer Released
In a surprising twist it has been officially confirmed that Street Fighter 5 will be coming to PC and PS4 only, excluding last-gen players and Xbox owners. It was confirmed that the game is not a timed exclusive, so in theory it should not be appearing anywhere else. A announcement trailer for the game was…
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