The Rise of Dota 2

February 2, 2014 9:00 AM6 comments
The Rise of Dota 2

In March 2012, Valve’s Dota 2 was played by almost 300,000 people at the same time, edging ahead of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to become the game with the […]

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Valve’s Steam Machine: a Load of Hot Air?

January 29, 2014 9:00 AM5 comments
Valve’s Steam Machine: a Load of Hot Air?

The ever-enterprising minds behind the eponymous, and disgustingly successful, software development studio that constitutes the Washington-based company hereto known as Valve Corporation have been notoriously quiet these last few years, […]

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2 Billion Downloads: Why Angry Birds Is Quickly Becoming The Most Successful Brand In The World

January 24, 2014 4:17 PM4 comments
2 Billion Downloads: Why Angry Birds Is Quickly Becoming The Most Successful Brand In The World

We all remember when Angry Birds flew onto our screens back in 2009. This year, the game’s producers, Rovio, announced that they have since recorded a breath-taking 2 billion downloads. […]

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Discounting The Wii U: Nintendo or Nintendon’t?

January 21, 2014 12:55 PM1 comment
Discounting The Wii U: Nintendo or Nintendon’t?

With the recent, albeit not entirely unexpected, news that Nintendo has had to revise its financial targets in the wake of last year’s disappointing sales of its latest home games […]

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Gaming: Is It Good Or Bad For You?

January 20, 2014 3:52 PM0 comments
Gaming: Is It Good Or Bad For You?

You can almost guarantee that if you search the internet on any given day about gaming either being good or bad for you or your children, there will be a […]

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Elder Scrolls Online Is Subscription Based, Why The Hate?

January 17, 2014 1:38 PM6 comments
Elder Scrolls Online Is Subscription Based, Why The Hate?

The current community’s view on ESO is unsurprisingly very negative. This is down to disappointing released footage at QuakeCon and that the game will be subscription based, the latter of […]

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I Game, I Saw, I Conquered…

January 13, 2014 4:00 PM1 comment
I Game, I Saw, I Conquered…

Recently there has been a growing swell in what one can reasonably call justifies the term ‘gamer’ being attributed to a person. With mobile phones bringing forefinger blister figures up […]

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Assassin’s Creed – Past and Future

January 11, 2014 2:10 PM1 comment
Assassin’s Creed – Past and Future

With Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag reeling ever closer, it seems to be time to look back at what the previous games delivered. Assassin’s Creed III was advertised as a huge step forward […]

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Hack N’ Flash

January 9, 2014 3:12 PM0 comments
Hack N’ Flash

Flash cards (or hack cards, if you will) for the portable Prometheus that is Ninty’s Gameboy have been around for a number of years. For the uninitiated they are essentially […]

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Gaming On The Go And The Sony Xperia Play Review

January 6, 2014 3:26 PM2 comments
Gaming On The Go And The Sony Xperia Play Review

With social sites and internet interaction via the medium of mobile phones now becoming the default excuse my girlfriend uses when turning up in A+E with a black eye and […]

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