It's getting increasingly hard these days to find a big multiplayer game that doesn't offer a raft of unlockable rewards for leveling up through long-term play. And I hate that. For me, this generation's big online trend is not only ruining the real fun of shared gaming, but it's turning multiplayer into something it really should not be. And it's not just downgarding the experience. It's downgrading the players too.
Read on and I'll explain.
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We like to end things on a positive note. That’s why 2009 was capped with not only our annual Platinum Chalice Awards, but also a whole week’s worth of celebratory articles talking about the accomplishments of the past decade. Now though, with ’09 safely out of range for a retaliatory strike, we can piss all over the idiotic, baffling and just plain dumb occurrences that peppered our otherwise fine year.
You’d think that games based around superheroes would be the ultimate expression of incredible powers. Nope. Unfortunately, most superhero tie-ins have had more tedious tasks than chances to protect the planet
If you were to look at the PlayStation Network a few years ago and compare it to its competitors, there wouldn't be very much to say. “It's free” was usually the best argument you could offer. With time, however, Sony's online gaming network has come into its own, adding in features and content that have helped to make it – if not exactly a match for the likes of Xbox Live – at least a worthy contender.
Comic books have been crossing over into games since 1978, and are more a part than ever. See the decades long history here...
The tragic flip-side of increasingly ambitious video game narrative is when for whatever reason (more often than not an MIA sequel) an otherwise brilliant and rewarding story goes unfinished. So we've decided to help. We've decided to get you some closure by working out how nine of these unfortunately in-limbo tales should have ended. We've even done pictures to help you imagine.
Nintendo's Wii U might be the first system to combine a touch screen and a controller, but we think this wild new hardware would be uniquely suited to bunch of great games already on announced or on the market...
How much would you pay to own a game? Before you enter the world of collecting rare games, you might want to see how expensive these current-gen games can get...
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