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February 03, 2012
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A brief history of the most over-used special effect in video games: Lens flare
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January 11, 2012
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Where do you buy your games? We're guessing it isn't HMV if the company's plans are anything to go by
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January 08, 2012
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Valve reports seventh year of 100% sales growth on Steam
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January 06, 2012
7:49 PM
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Firefall cosplay is free-to-admire
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January 05, 2012
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The Top 7… Greatest gaming rebirths
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December 31, 2011
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Five holiday releases that should have been delayed to 2012
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December 14, 2011
12:54 PM
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2011 Platinum Chalice Game of the Year nominees: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
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1 week, 5 days ago A brief history of the most over-used special effect in video games: Lens flare
They're usually called "god rays", actually, for fairly obvious reasons.
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1 month ago Where do you buy your games? We're guessing it isn't HMV if the company's plans are anything to go by
At this point I effectively only use digital distribution (Steam, GOG.com, Green Man Gaming, GamersGate, Direct2Drive, Humble Indie Bundles, Origin). In the rare cases I want a console game, I'll shop around for the lowest price at the time.
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1 month, 1 week ago Valve reports seventh year of 100% sales growth on Steam
Steam sales are there for a reason. Nobody's crazy enough to buy a game outside of a sale unless they REALLY REALLY need the game now (which tends to be exceptional).

Plus, Steam heralded the arrival of a bunch of other services (Direct2Drive, GamersGate, Impulse, GOG, Green Man Gaming, etc.) with dirt cheap prices. Now it's fairly easy to get a game for 50% off mere months after release. If Steam doesn't have the cheapest price, all the better! Competition is healthy.
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1 month, 1 week ago Firefall cosplay is free-to-admire
I can't help it: those armors are ridiculous.

Somebody had to say it. I'm so sorry.
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1 month, 1 week ago The Top 7… Greatest gaming rebirths
I'm surprised the most recent rebirth isn't on this list: Deus Ex.

It just so happens that the rebirth has made it to the top of many "best of 2011" lists. Funnily enough, like with many other games on this list, it is considered better by those who've never played the original at the time, whereas people who did tend to prefer the first game.

Sure, it may not be the iconic game that, say, Donkey Kong is, but it's still easily one of the most important games of all time.
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1 month, 2 weeks ago Five holiday releases that should have been delayed to 2012
I know it might be stretching the definition of "holiday release", but still... Sword of the Stars II. This game should've been delayed at the very least to holiday 2012, perhaps even later. If you think any game on your list was botched, think again. I find SOTS more enjoyable than Total War (which are arguably similar on many fronts), but SOTS2 was such a pitiful excuse for a game it overshadowed Elemental on the scale of broken and nearly reached Big Rigs.

At least they're patching it, but patching this is akin to putting plasters on a sinking ship.
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2 months ago 2011 Platinum Chalice Game of the Year nominees: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
TW2 would certainly be deserving of a GOTY award, if only because it shows that serious, deep and genuinely interesting RPGs exist beyond the ridiculously shallow Bioware stuff (hey, I still liked Mass Effect and DAO, but TW2 is in another class entirely).
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