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Why do gamers hate Activision? |
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I grew up with Activision so they have good vibes for me. Have to say that bringing back I76.......... Genius idea and day 1 for me if it ever happened! Which other games have a hip 70s funky poetry button? Like a lot. |
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History of dangerous driving in videogames |
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Oh and did you know the original driver only had right angled corners, no curves? |
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History of dangerous driving in videogames |
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I urge everybody to try Deathchase even now. Totally awesome game when first released, still a challenge... go Speccie |
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26 indie game developers you need to follow |
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Amanita Design did a great mini game for the band Polyphonic Spree, very much in the same vein as Samorast... http://www.questfortherest.com/ |
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Duke Nukem Forever: 4 big reasons it's 100% old-school authentic (while also 100% fresh) |
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@Ingema Kudos to you sir As a really old fart (I bought 3D Monster Maze new.... from my paper round earnings) I have to agree 100%. |
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Gran Turismo 5 (PS3): Gran Turismo 5 review |
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Whether good or bad, the sprite trees are just unforgivable in this day and age. Is it a PS3 thing where foliage just doesn't work? Red Dead Redemption had less of it on the PS3. A 7 sounds about right for this. The score is for the whole package. The gameplay on EDF was sublime, the rest a bit shocking so the score reflected this. I do like how the PS3 bods who spent a long time shouting out about this being a Forza killer, suddenly have found the art of quiet |
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5 reasons why Mark Wahlberg will make an awesome Nathan Drake |
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Perfect for Uncharted. Very handsome, but shallow, predictable and we've seen it all before but a bit better. In fact this is typecasting |
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Sniping in war and videogames: Why it's hated, why it's loved, and why we do it |
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@Imgema MDK is often considered the first "proper' sniper, built into a helmet |
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Sniping in war and videogames: Why it's hated, why it's loved, and why we do it |
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Sniping good, camping bad As an occasional online player now, since Q3 heyday, it is bloody annoying to try and get a game and be raped todeath by campers who just know the map, it makes it difficult to ever get motivated. I always think camping spots should be weeded out. A good snipe is good tho |
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14 forgotten franchises we want back |
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Interstate 76 How many games had a poetry button? |
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Why Rockstar needs to make Bully 2 |
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@xenon 100% with you. Never finished a GTA, from any era, but those bloody rubber bands..... |
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8 videogame corners you must experience before you die |
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Virtua Racing has a big right left after the bridge on Big Forest, That was the first time I remember drifting a car through a corner to get round it at top whack |
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Kevin Butler's PlayStation Move website makes our eyes go lol by comparing Kinect to a pineapple |
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@coryrx8 To be fair he flamed me on a non comment, so I feel justified in discussing the minute size of his party taters. I also don't see cocky and arrogant being the same. I see arrogant as a negative attribute, while cocky has shades of a bit ooh and a bit aah, wide boy with some redeeming features. I don't see them squandering the goodwill as they are adverts aimed to be a bit funny to try and make people buy a product. Why do fanbois seem to think any company owes them something, they don't, If the PS3 launched with killers apps and a decent price point do you really, really think the concept of arrogance would come into it? Like 'Wow there are 10 must play games and , and.... I can afford it, but no I reject their arrogance and so will only play a old Megadrive' Do you really believe that? Nobody would give a cheap crack whore's rattling dry fart if the price and games were right. So simply put, you and @violate are just wrong. Anthropomorphizing a company just shows a lack of maturity and understanding. Attacking or defending a console or company has no relevance, they are not your friends. The easy answer is this.... if you think the ads are so bad and Sony (the big successful company who don't know you)never buy one of their products again. Or accept a harmless add campaign that tried to be a but risque didn't hit some fanbabies demographic. You know the crusty bits in the corner of a tramps eyes? Thats you mum that is |
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Kevin Butler's PlayStation Move website makes our eyes go lol by comparing Kinect to a pineapple |
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And I haven't got 4 blue ray players. Do have a custom built micro-atc media player with blu ray. Waste of money and a case of willy envy..Oh my blue rays bigger than your DVD... ooooh all the girls love my gigbyte. Want to come and see my disc spinning really fast? That would be a bit of a play on insinuating that you have a small penis and premature ejaculation.'t think of a reply to imply low sperm count or a penchant for pictures of boys sorry Dial 555 still a twat Couldn |
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Kevin Butler's PlayStation Move website makes our eyes go lol by comparing Kinect to a pineapple |
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@violate To be fair Sony are a company selling a product, so what else do you expect them to do? Will they look at a successful product and say ..."oooooooh no we don't want any of that pie, our shareholders would hate it if we looked like we were being cocky. In fact lets take some of our share dividend and give it to nintendo to apologise for the fact we even considered it!!" Can't see it myself. What about the adverts? "Buy a move it is a direct ripoff of the Wii remote. In fact just buy a wii or kinect because the tech is better, sorry we ever thought of it" To put it simply Do Sony have to be so fucking cocky has a simple answer ... yes to maintain market share based on their initial branding of the PS1 and 2 Do we need motion control faggotry would also be yes because a the wii sold and b Sony probably have a good idea of what sells in the market Have to agree that I am not sure if we need a 40+ year old actor riding Sony's cock I could give a miss on. I suppose if it was tastefully done with good camera work and a nice script I might watch. Next time I found a successful multi-national company I'll give you a ring for financial and business advice Dial 555-TWAT |
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Kevin Butler's PlayStation Move website makes our eyes go lol by comparing Kinect to a pineapple |
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Oh and my granny was quite hot... I would have done her if I was born in the 1920s |
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Kevin Butler's PlayStation Move website makes our eyes go lol by comparing Kinect to a pineapple |
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I love the fanboy dissection of the advert, it makes me smile. I have a 360 but I still think the advert is funny. So funny I would replace the hoop with a red ring. Just because I play on a system doesn't mean that I see no value in others, even less from their adverts |
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Gaming's best crusty old men |
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I thought the first craze had gone the way of all sad things but no. There are still people who define their lives by the ability to type a 5 letter word with some punctuation repeated. Very sad, why not get a girlfriend instead On a serious note, how could you forget Eli Vance? Only has 1 leg as well |
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The Top 7... worst video game ports that should've been taken out back with a shotgun |
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I had Pacman on the Woody bought for my christmas present when I was a kid. Was pretty cack. Could I add Deus Ex invisible war for the xbox? PC version wasn't great but xbox was nasty |
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Driver: San Francisco (Xbox 360): Driver: San Francisco – hands-on |
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Original driver only had right angled corners, no curves. Why oh why can't they remake Interstate 76? |
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A brief history of video game piracy |
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Being born in the tail end of the sixties I grew up with computers. My first was a ZX81, second a Speccie. Casual piracy was totally the norm. c90 tapes with 30 games on them, everybody had them. I remember being promised a 'Stereo' for chrismas and do jobs so my mum would buy the twin deck simply to copy games. I come from a place called Evesham, the home of Evesham micros. I remember a couple of the saturday lads (when it was a single shop) would copy the games for you and sell them for 50p a game if you supplied the tape. I region modded my Master Systems and Megadrive. I even have a couple of Cart to Disc copiers for the SNES. Different world then. Now I my consoles are vanilla but as a kid growing up there were no rules Thems was the days!!! |
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Never mind Brad Pitt - we've got the whole perfect cast for a Red Dead Redemption movie |
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I think Mel Gibson brings the perfect blend of casual racist intolerance to any role. Seriously is there any chance he still has a career? Have to say Bill Murray for Nigel gets my vote |
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How much of a game do you actually complete? And how long is too long? |
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Length doesn't bother me at all. What I hate are unnecessary difficulty spikes/stupid boss fights. If you have ever played the original Soldier of Fortune you will know what I mean. Nice game all the way through, final boss suddenly has a completely bullet proof suit, which means about a 1000 rounds. WTF. Any any time during a game if it just feels stupid I stop. Don't mind difficult, I like friggin hard, just when it feels out of place does my head in |
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Modern Warfare 2 gets a zombie mode (sort of) via a brilliant new Call of Duty Doom mod |
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Pickup a little engine called jDoom. Runs original Doom Wads with enhanced graphics. You can even add new 3d models, rather than sprites. And yes you have full mouselook!! |
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Football games forgotten by time |
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Is it me or is the Space Football guy wringing out a massive armpit fart? |
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9 game references that show your age |
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3D??? My first computer had a 3D game.... 3D Monster Maze on the ZX81.. old fart I am. I remember seeing Marble maze for the 1st time, 2.5D and a roller ball, nearly aplurted my y fronts I did. @Grim08... I went to university that year!!! |
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Xbox 360): First look at Deus Ex: Human Revolution |
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Deus Ex the greatest game of all time? Possibly Do I have a chubby for this? Definately. I don't think IW was dumbed down as such I just don't think consoles were ready for it and the devs made some bad choices in making it playable on a console. For all you hArDcorz lEEtZ sAdFuxx who like to swear a lot on COD4 get a copy, play and it and be humbled. Complete this non-lethal and you can truly call yourself a gamer |
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Change the way you think to get better at games |
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I like the article a lot but sort of disagree with a lot of it. I stopped playing online after quake 3/ BF42 mainly because of the things you quoted. While not cheating, using exploits, spamming, raping etc doesn't feel right to me. I play to enjoy, not to win. We didn't win the war because somebody knew the one best sniping spot, it was more a free for all with individual skill being only a part of it. Online now is often just no fun if you have a life, kids, job etc, unless it is with people you know. I wish somebody would set up a gentlemans club where elderly gamers like myself could just drop in and out and have a good killzap without having to devote my life to it. @RebornKusabi.. I can beat you, I had my first game, a Binatone TV game when I was 6, nearly 35 years ago!!1 |
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E3 2010: The Halo: Reach trailer is ridiculously more exciting than the actual game |
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Bit of a silly article I think. Next time dump your man fat on a developer not including the essential bits like.... driving into town to buy the game unwrapping it putting it in your machine making a cup of tea What the shitting fuckity wanky fuck fuck do you expect them to put in a trailer? The loading screen? I think this calls for a jolly loud shout of 'Joooeey' with a bent arm from the children of the eighties. Today I am officially grouchy |
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6 most important game consoles of all time ever |
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I think I know why PS3 fanbunnies are the most rapid, immature and ill informed. With the PS1 sony really did have the 'best' console on the market with the 'best' games. This let emotionally retarded ickle children have a (justified) sense of superiority. However after Xbox went against PS2 the superiority gap started to disappear , and in fact probably ceased to exist. With PS3 and 360 there is actually no real difference. If you took screenshots from both systems of an unknown game, most people wouldn't be able to see a difference. The sony playbabies only see what they have lost, the rest see what they have gained. And this last bit isn't meant to be trolling but does anybody know the age make-up of console players? |
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6 most important game consoles of all time ever |
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Hells teeth I just vomited by spleen It would be nice if you whiney ps3 fanboys could actually learn to read and further more understand what the words mean (oh and also got a girlfriend... you know a real one). The article is about consoles which where a paradigm shift. These consoles offered something to gaming which didn't go before. As good as the PS3 is, and it is a great console, it does nothing new. It just does everything better than before. Blue ray isn't anything new, it is just the next evolution of the DVD. Xbox live is the first console to make online activity an inherent part of the console experience. I love the Dreamcast, I even modded one, but online was a bit shite even during its heyday. Wii does have cruddy graphics, but you have to be a drooling brain dead freak to not understand that it bought gaming to the masses again. The last time I remember a family get together around a game was the Hobbit on the spectrum. While you HaRdCoRe MoFos don't rate families playing, the games business has changed because of the Wii and do you fanboys have a monopoly on gaming because you think the games you play are somehow more worthy? Try to have a grown up debate, or go and get your nappy changed Rant just starting |
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Five gameplay elements Doom invented that nobody stole |
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I totally agree with this article. The in fighting is very different to any other game. It is any of your enemies fighting anybody else. In Halo the flood fought anybody, it isn't the covenant against covenant. Also the exploits were accidents, they weren't cheats or developer modes, they were proper errors which you could use to your advantage (or just die). Would quite like it though if you could have ended the piece with something like... I would give Windows Solitaire 160% because I like the colours and Fallout 3 is shit because of the animation of my finger They make me laugh |
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What would you do with a time machine? |
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I'd probably go back in time and shag my own mum in the hope I could be my own dad, she was a milf |
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Would you pass the Cub Scout gaming test? |
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What about the good ones like Don't sleep for 43 hours Eat instant coffee Really punch a friend for beating you Piss in a empty slushy container Lie about being ill Promise anything to get a game Make stuff up about how it will help you learn Spend weeks swearing at people old enough to be your dad Scratch a game disc of a shite game so you can take it back for a refund Make your younger brother/sister cry by having just one more go Fail exams because of RType Spend your savings on a game, not a present for your gran |
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Opinion: What is it with lame boss battles recently? |
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Never liked boss battles at all, always seemed to be an intrusion in the fiction created. I like the original call of duty, it always felt to me that the epic battles were boss battles in disguise. The mission where you defended the bridge was in many ways a BB, shoot this bit repeatedly, shoot another bit repeat ad nauseum, but it never felt like a chore, it was genuinely exciting abd beating felt like you had survivived a battle, not managed to survive a boss. I judge it by how I feel at the end. If I am glad to get to the end then it is shite, if I am sad to get to the end then it is epic |
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5 ways to get fit while gaming |
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Sorry but these photoshop features are a bit cheap. I used to like it when there were less articles but ones which where a bit more thoughtful and considered, often giving some deeper meaning to gaming. A bit like slug hunting with a blunderbus. I am an old fart though. |
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EXCLUSIVE: iPad works better in the bathroom! |
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@sterlins16 - I did that once and got arrested. was in a womens dressing room though |
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The Top 7... Classic books that would make amazing games |
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How about Cosmic Banditos by AC Weisbecker? Drug Trafficor gets accused of being a terrorist so hides out in Central America. His drug trafficor friends have to become bandits to stay alive. Meanwhile his other friends have to escape the police and government forces. Finally becomes a born again Physicist after his bandit friends rob a Particle Physicist on holiday and they take his books. Spiritual journey to meet the family ensues. Lots of plane rides across the treetops, taxi racing, loads of shoot outs, grenades in steel drums and real philosophy. What is there not to like? And I am being serious. Just read the book. Sort of half life meets grand theft auto with a spinrkling of bioshock, with a pinch of Saints Row. Quite frankly the greatest read ever |
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EXCLUSIVE: iPad works better in the bathroom! |
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@Antithos A They needed a mirror so they could still play it B How else would they get such a homoerotic picture I think the photo has a Deliverance moment... squeal like a pig |
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Enslaved (Xbox 360): First look at Enslaved: Odyssey to the West |
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The Nature of Monkey was..... irrepressible. This looks nicely like the best bits of ico crossed with prototype |
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5 reasons to hate Final Fantasy |
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I don't need a reason to hate Final Fantasy |
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BioShock 3: Where next for the story? |
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How about Rapture rebirth Eleanor returns and starts to rebuild. You are on her side tackling factions who don't want a new Rapture. Be quite nice to actually encounter NPCs you don't want/have to kill. They can move the story along and actually give you something tangible to fight for. I am not sure Bioshock would be Bioshock without the claustraphobia, same as system shock |
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Are JRPGs dead? |
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I've got a feeling it isn't the game but the feeling. Being an old fart I remember these games when they were new. If I give an example of Way of the Exploding Fist on the speccie. I used to play this with my brother and it was incredible, a proper fighting game that rewarded skill. The first time round the sense of wonder with it blew me away. Roll on nearly 30 years and I recently played it again. Everything was the same but I had lost the sense of wander. I could play it straight off and be pretty kick ass but it had lost the feeling. Scroll forward to the first time I played the original Unreal, mental, same sense of disbelief and wonder. Played again and it is still great but no feeling. I think the FF series is like this. FF felt like nothing else and not just gameplay, more the idea that you were playing something special. After so much repetition the sense of special has gone I think. It has to either evolve or die. And quite frankly 80ll0x to the fanboys. If you want FFxii play it Until it feels right again it can't be right. |
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The Top 7... Least-irritating quick time events |
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I really dislike QTEs and is probably why I went the 360 route, not PS3. The PS3 is ideally suited to these sort of lightweight gaming ideas, lacking the "hard core" install base. In fact I expect to start seeing Myst clones anytime soon. Still even being a glorified DVD player at least the games are a bit more advanced than Dragon's Lair |
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Singularity (Xbox 360): Singularity |
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Why do people persist in looking a cock? First!!!! So what go get a girlfriend you sad dysfunctional piece of erectile tissue |
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Singularity (Xbox 360): Singularity |
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I want it to be good, I know it will be average. One day one of these games with a good idea will turn out to be good and use their idea. Look at Dark Void, what is not to like, except it just gets everything mostly wrong. Not really wrong but enough wrong to make it boring. |
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The forgotten fathers of gaming you really should know about |
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You should read Game Over, the story of Nintendo, very interesting read which expands on quite a few of these stories. Also Trigger Happy, less nintendocentric but again interesting. Have to admit not really sure Babbage was a big gamer, but Matthew Smith was a gaming legend and eccentric to boot. I actually believe Manic Miner was the first true breakthrough game for the speccy. Before they were mainly arcade rip-offs but MM and JSW, awesome. Oh and the recaptchais and I kid you not EUGENE tacoma!!!!! To all of you MM freaks this means something. Finally Plymouth Poly had a building that became the Babbage building and looked like a punch card |
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Which console will win 2010? |
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Silly waste of time article. Obvious the 360 will triumph, a true man's machine rather than the other toys. Didn't need 4 pages to tell me that. Wii is for babes PS3 is good for playing films PC nice point and click adventure machine |
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