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Halo 4 concept art video

10 years ago

OK, I was only vaguely interested in Halo 4 before this but . . . it looks like they're actually trying something different! The music was awesome (Halo + Mass Effect, anyone?) and the scenery was stunning.Let's see what 343 can do. Nothing wrong with continuing a franchise as long as it remains awesome.

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The Best Deus Ex Augmentations

10 years ago

@RawNinjaKid

I don't know what game you're playing, but it's not DE:HR.

The action is great - it's the first game in a long time to give more than the illusion of choice; you're rewarded however you play the game and it encourages you to experiment.

The story is second to none. As a transhumanist I found it to be a fascinating exploration of what it means to be human and whether augmentation really would be beneficial for humanity. I can't stop watching the end videos on YouTube - they are beautiful.

And as something of a connoisseur of game soundtracks, Michael Mann's work here is astounding and ranks up there with Halo and Mass Effect.

Anyway, my favourite augs had to be ICARUS, for being able to get out of some sticky situations, and the robot/turret domination augs for providing many lulz. There was a great moment on Panchaea when an assault robot I had turned to friendly mowed down a few dozen crazy civilians. >:D

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Retrospective: Deus Ex: Invisible War

10 years ago

I actually came to Deus Ex through IW and it will always have a place in my heart. Yeah, it's not the best game ever made, it certainly can't live up to DE3 or DE, but some people talk of it as if it's the Antichrist.

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Valve's Gabe Newell

10 years ago

That really is a Gaben.

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Acti vs. EA: the trash talk continues

10 years ago

Cryotek: "This is childish and pathetic. This industry is at an apex, wanting to be taken more seriously as an art form, and this is how 2 of the biggest companies in the industry are acting.... Makes me embarrassed and ashamed. This is why the mainstream media look at gaming as being for idiots."

Really? You've never heard of one-upmanship outside of gaming? There's plenty of often very vocal rivalries in literary, film and TV circles, between both personalities and organisations, and the people who gravitate towards one side or another. Jeremy Clarkson vs. Piers Morgan? BBC vs. Sky? It's not that big a deal - you can buy into the whole fanboy thing if you want, and many do, and so this is why they do that, but more and more gamers don't bother with it. I don't think it has any bearing on the industry as a whole.

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Battlefield 3 PC main menu is Battlelog

10 years ago

The first time I opened the Alpha and it took me to a webpage I was like "WTF DICE I HATE U FFS".

And then I calmed down and played it, and it actually works perfectly well. You change options in-game on the fly. The Battlelog is pretty cool.

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MS: Xbox 360 250GB will be matte only

10 years ago

Thank fuck for that. Glossy black plastic is the devil's work. I had my new 360 for about two weeks before it got banged up something awful in the car on the way to uni for the new year. "It doesn't look so bad", I remember thinking. That was before I shone a light over it to make sure it was OK . . . OH GOD MY EYES. Total scratch saturation. I've never had this problem with matte finish 360s.

Thank you MS. Thank you. Please never ever use glossy plastic again. That is all.

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Dragon Age 2 response surprised BioWare

10 years ago

The only thing grievously wrong with DA2 to me was the repetition of quest areas. So there's one cave and one warehouse in the whole of Kirkwall? That was totally unacceptable, even in Mass Effect there was some variation in the unexplored planets. I expected better of BioWare. I didn't mind anything else they changed - the city was cool, there were lots of great references to the DA lore and the story was relatively interesting although I expect better from the people who gave us Mass Effect, KotOR etc.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic gameplay

10 years ago

Oh. Another TOR video comments thread packed with cynicism. Shocking.

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BF3 dev responds to fan frame-rate fury

10 years ago

Without wanting to give anything away, from the time I've spent in Alpha BF3 is very slow paced compared to MW2. Not that it's a bad thing. Instead of rushing in to a hallway, akimbo shotguns from the 1870s blazing like a stupid maniac, unless you want to die you go prone/crouch/find cover and pray, then edge out of cover a bit to pop off a few shots, then run like hell to the next bit of cover. 30fps, 60fps . . . it really won't matter, it's a different type of game from MW entirely. It feels good, because it feels like Battlefield. The King is back, baby.

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Game of the Week: Team Fortress 2

10 years ago

You know it's a slow week when the game of the week is from 4 years ago.

But that said I redownloaded TF2 a few days ago after reading the re-review . . . I'm pleasantly surprised. It seems a lot more addictive than it was before, which is saying something.

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PSN hack "a great learning experience"

10 years ago

You have to be fucking kidding me.

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Microsoft: "We lost our way" with Halo

10 years ago

I must be one of the group of three people and a small dog named Boris who actually liked Halo 2's Arbiter sections. I thought it was a brilliant insight into the Covenant. Whilst I'm not going to lie that I would like to see what happens to the Chief in Halo 4, surely a game around the Arbiter would have been better? They did have a massive war left to fight against the Brutes on their own at the end of Halo 3, after all, and the elites are everybody's favourite squidfaces.

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Limbo confirmed for PSN, Steam

10 years ago

Fantastic news for other gamers, because Limbo is amazing! It had me spellbound at many moments. Worth every penny.

I just hope that we get Journey in return . . .

Exclusivity is such bull sometimes :(

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Dyack plans to finish Too Human trilogy

10 years ago

Something about pigs and lipstick? Polishing turds?

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You can buy SWTOR gold/credits now

11 years ago

Sometimes I weep inside for humanity.

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Activision: You've got us all wrong

11 years ago

@Timotei - no, now because they produce decent games and listen to consumer feedback they get more sympathy.

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BioWare: Mass Effect MMO "makes sense"

11 years ago

How about you continue to make non-MMO Mass Effect games, and we get on with our lives?

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Treyarch hiring for new Call of Duty

11 years ago

@Olemak

Yeah, but unlike the awesome BF2142 any attempt to make a near-future CoD will, IMHO, fail pathetically.

BF2142 had titans, nothing can top that.

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CCP details EVE usability improvements

11 years ago

Oh FFS stop tempting me EVE! I was quit when I walked in here Torvi, but I'm not sure if I'm twice as quit now . . .

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iPad 2 UK price revealed

11 years ago

If I had Ł500+ to burn on a tablet, I'd get one that runs Android. It's painful to see people buying iPads.

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Prey 2 teaser won't help a fear of flying

11 years ago

Trailer - meh.Prey 2 - woop!I was beginning to fear that it had gotten stuck in dev hell, having heard literally nothing about it for, what, 3 years? So I'm glad that it's happening.I would be surprised if they ditched Tommy's storyline, though.

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EA: WOW is like "doing a shopping list"

11 years ago

What's this resurgence in slagging off the competition? Who gives a frak what other games are doing as long as the one that you're making is good?

Cut this crap out.

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Jaffe attacks "games as art" contenders

11 years ago

Why give this c-nut a mouthpiece?

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Teacher attacks late night gaming

11 years ago

I think the message here is that children and teenagers need a lot of sleep, which is quite obvious since there's a lot of biological and physiological changes that need to be consolidated through sleep. I don't think I ever stayed up beyond 12/1 to game at school, so I've got to question just how crap your parents have to be to let you stay up until 4.

But gaming is not the only culprit, nor, I suspect, is it the worst. TV? The internet? House parties? It's going to differ on an individual basis and kids who are clearly suffering from sleep deprivation need help.

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We Dare will not launch in the UK

11 years ago

I wouldn't buy it because it's not my kind of thing, but why prohibit others from doing so? Publishers pulling games from markets out of fear of "bad publicity" (no such thing, etc.) are even worse than governments banning the same games. Grow a spine Ubi - what's so different about the games playing demographic in the UK from that in the rest of Europe? Not much I suspect.

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THQ's Bilson: cutscenes are a cop-out

11 years ago

Has he played Mass Effect? The most awesome point of the whole game was the final few cutscenes, and there's no way they could have been accomplished as well from a first person perspective.

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Can COD help soldiers deal with trauma?

11 years ago

Hopefully one day we won't feel that we have to mentally scar young men and women for no good reason and they won't need to find an escape from their own mind.

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Harrison Ford making Facebook game

11 years ago

Well there's a headline I never thought I'd see.

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Pre-order pre-owned games at GAME

11 years ago

So why not just buy it on Steam?

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PAX survey hints at UK event

11 years ago

Have it in Brum. Everyone can get to Brum in a reasonably short amount of time, even if it is a shithole.

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What's Beachhead doing for Call of Duty?

11 years ago

Bobby son, if you don't try and create new IPs, your company will collapse.

BF3's a-comin' round the mountain . . .

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Clint Mansell making Mass Effect 3 music

11 years ago

Not sure how I feel about this. Mansell is pretty awesome, but why fix what ain't broke? Jack Wall and Sam Hulick excelled in the first two games and this feels like a very petty snub by someone down the chain of command.

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New Deus Ex: Human Revolution trailer

11 years ago

Oh god. Please - I need this now.

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No more Halo side-stories planned

11 years ago

I don't want fucking novels guys, I want some games!

Elites v. Brutes post-Halo 3? What happened to the Chief and Cortana? What the ODSTs did after their little jolly around Mombasa? Something completely new?

If they really don't have any games in the pipeline then I'd be surprised.

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MIT developing Kinect holographic TV

11 years ago

Princess Leia is apparently Mexican.

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EA investors "betting against" SWTOR

11 years ago

Modest previews of the game? What?

Really?

In 2 years of previews virtually every one I've seen has praised TOR to some extent.

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MS hints at official Kinect PC support

11 years ago

OK, NOW I'm interested Microsoft.

PC developers could do some fun things.

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What's your most anticipated game?

11 years ago

Deus Ex 3.

But Mass Effect 3, Dead Space 2 and Portal 2 all get honourable mentions :)

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Total War: Shogun 2 install specs detailed

11 years ago

20GB is nothing. You can get a 1TB HDD for under Ł50 O_o

And Dragon Age was bigger. I am still amazed that it consumes 23GB of space.

At least the specs don't look too bad, but having said that I always try to create the biggest and most explosive battles possible in Total War games and end up crashing my PC :(

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First Avatar Kinect trailer pipes up

11 years ago

Yo, Microsoft, I love y'all but please can you stop coming out with shit that nobody will use and you'll abandon in a few months?People have games consoles primarily to play games, so lets see some nice new exclusives.

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63 million games bought in UK in 2010

11 years ago

63 million games . . .

. . . bought in the Steam Holiday Sale as well, probably.

And you wonder why politicians listen to the film and music industries and pass gaming off as a joke when it's bigger than either of them here.

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Paid-for "second tier" COD online soon?

11 years ago

Man, I wish I could be an "industry analyst". I could sit in the pub all day thinking up bullshit or stuff that people have known for ages, and then earn hundreds of thousands of pounds for writing it down!

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Hackers leave PS3 security in tatters

11 years ago

While the scale of Sony's failure here is, frankly, monumental and mind-boggling, at least it's employees don't (hopefully) live in their mums' basement hacking game consoles all day and working as janitors at convenience stores all night.

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Eurogamer's Game of the Year 2010

11 years ago

Agreed with the choice of ME2, it is a fabulous game.

But I also agree that some of the soul of ME1 is gone, and that some things that should not have been removed (like the inventory system, the Mako - refined, sure, but not removed)

Combine the inventory and exploration of ME1 with the kinetic fury and production values of ME2 and you have a solid candidate for the best game of all time.

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Games of 2010: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction

11 years ago

Played it through again last week . . . it's a good blast but it's not Double Agent or Chaos Theory. The story is boring, the plot twist at the end - "OMG Reed's the mole WHOWOULDATHUNKIT" - can be seen a mile off and the enemies are comical. Apparently third echelon became populated in the space of a few years with people who can't resist vocalising every thought that pops into their head. Also, I know that it's a darker story than the other games, but what happened to Sam's sense of humour? Where did it go?

On the plus side, Sam is twice the badass he ever was and there's some great set pieces like the interrogation scenes. Mark and execute is also a nice reward system for pulling off stealthy kills. But please, get Sam back into 3E with his spandex suit for the next game, make the story comprehensible and shut the baddies up. Also - make it longer and get Mercs v. Splinter Cells back in there.

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Mass Effect 3 gets explosive reveal

11 years ago

Instead of elevator sequences, can we be stuck on the Tube instead?But anyway - ME3YAYWOOHEADEXPLODE

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First footage of BioWare's new title

11 years ago

God dammit, stop announcing announcements.

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Unannounced BioWare game gets a screen

11 years ago

Massive Duty: Call of Effect

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BioWare show mystery new game

11 years ago

Looks kind of like Mass Effect if it was made grittier - the rifle looks similar to some of the sniper designs.

Maybe a new engine is being used for ME3 so they took the opportunity to Gearsify it?

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