Should The Last of Us be nominated for an Academy Award? As the video game industry continues to mature in terms of storytelling and character development and as the lines continue to blur between video games and movies. It seems as though it’s only a matter of time until video games are universally respected in the same vein as movies are. One of the finer examples of this is Naughty Dog...
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Sony recently announced at Gamescon that the PlayStation Vita will be receiving a price cut to $199 and €199. Due to this, I am sure that many consumers are looking forward to picking up the console to see what they have been missing. Do you know what games to buy though? Hell, do you even think there are games worth buying as you remain unconvinced? Well this guide has been crafted to help answer...
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With indie games becoming a huge part of next generation consoles, it is important not to forget where indie games originated – the PC. Indie games on PC have always been great, by being fun to play and overall getting to experience new and exciting experiences. The huge-hit game Minecraft is an indie game and originated on the PC. Minecraft is now available on the Xbox 360 and will be relea...
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*Writer’s Note* This first impressions article of Killzone Mercenary is based entirely on my own experience understand that this is just a beta and my experience could have been different from others. General Killzone Mercenary the most anticipated vita game has finally released it’s closed beta and here is my first impression the closed beta. First off Killzone Mercenary is graphically the ...
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Opinion Article With the release of Nintendo’s financial info recently, I figured it was time to go ahead and put this out there. As revealed by Nintendo’s moves at E3, they consider themselves in a different market from Sony and Microsoft. Their approach is also very different too. Nintendo relies the most on their exclusive franchises, and they also seem to be the most embracing of m...
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Let’s face it. At one point or another you have probably bragged to a friend that your console had this super awesome game that his or her console did not have. Exclusives are bragging rights that make us feel superior to other gamers. It is a nice feeling, but one that is ultimately stabbing us in the back. All exclusives are doing is forcing us to pay more money to own all the consoles in ...
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PS4 vs Xbox One. To be perfectly honest, I don’t get console wars. They have been ongoing ever since I can remember but the most prevalent of any of these wars is the battle between the PS3 and the Xbox 360. With the dawning of a new generation of consoles we now are witness to the new war between the PS4 and the Xbox One. Even though we haven’t even had the opportunity to get a hands on look at t...
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United States Vice President, Joe Biden, sees nothing wrong with taxing violent video games. A sin tax is in the works for violent video games. Throughout history different forms of entertainment have been blamed for what goes wrong in the world. In the 1920’s, ragtime and jazz were the blame and why the youth was corrupted back in that day. In the 1960’s comic books were said to rotte...
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If you don’t know recently (when I wrote this) 5th Cell and Warner Brothers are being sued by two meme creators Charles Schmidt creator of Keyboard Cat and Christopher Orlander Torres creator of Nyan Cat. In Scribblenauts they were both Easter eggs but they didn’t pay either of the meme creators which is blatantly against copyright laws which was made by companies such as Warner Brothers. “5th Cel...
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The Consumerist held a poll and for the second straight year EA won the honor of being named the ‘worst company in America’ for the second straight year. It’s March madness, everybody is doing brackets, and the Consumerist they did a poll of the worst companies in America. They’ve done this for awhile now, and this year it was down between the defending champion Electronic...
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