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Article | 15/11/2010 Best iPad games
The iPad has been described as a revolutionary device, and it offers a world of possibilities when it comes to games.
Article | 11/11/2010 Call of Duty Black Ops gets slammed across the web by gamers
For all the launch fanfare, it sounds like Call of Duty Black Ops may be suffering from Fallout New Vegas syndrome. Scan the PC version's official for...
Article | 13/11/2010 Hacker turns Kinect for Xbox 360 into Kinect for Linux PCs
Well, that was fast. Do-it-yourself electronics kit maker and hobby retailer Adafruit recently announced that a hacker had won the company's Open Kine...
Article | 10/11/2010 Less Rokk, More Talk: an interview with Freezepop
Even if you've never heard of the band Freezepop, there's a good chance you've jammed along to some of their tunes before — the Boston-based syn...
Article | 8/11/2010 The rise and fall of rhythm games
The rhythm genre exploded onto the scene in a big way with the release of RedOctane's Guitar Hero and Harmonix's Rock Band,
Article | 8/11/2010 10 games you probably don't know about but should
Sometimes we can't play everything. And sometimes we're too focused on Madden NFL this or Mass Effect that, missing more-intrepid games. What's a cons...
Article | 3/11/2010 US to ban violent video games?
Thank God Steve Jobs isn't on the Supreme Court.
Article | 1/11/2010 Top 10 games for PlayStation Phone
Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few weeks, you've no doubt heard about the impending PlayStation Phone -- a smartphone designed fo...
Article | 30/10/2010 Fable III: Bad or Good, What's the Difference?
That's two runs through Fable III in the can. I was naughty the first time through and nice the second, which basically means I traded flickering red ...
Article | 22/10/2010 Why Kinect will fail: the 'housewife factor'
It's official: Kinect is for kids and housewives.
Article | 13/10/2010 Hands on with Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare
Something is rotten in the state of New Austin. Actually, everything is rotten in the state of New Austin. A virulent plague has descended upon the pl...
Article | 1/10/2010 Video game characters that are supposed to be sexy... but aren't
When sex doesn't sell.
Article | 22/09/2010 Why Samurai Heroes sucks (and I haven't even played it)
Sengoku Basara, or Samurai Heroes, will hit the PS3 and Nintendo Wii in October courtesy of Capcom, and producer of Devil May Cry 4, Hiroyuki Kobayash...
Article | 21/09/2010 Q&A with Fable III's Louise Murray
In the past Lionhead Studio's CEO, Peter Molyneux, has sometimes hyped up features in games that don't make it into the final release. This was the ca...
Article | 20/09/2010 Why Portal is the best game of all time
I may not have a PhD in game reviewing, and I know some Zelda zealots will throw me a "Nah, Zelda Ocarina of Time is waaay l33t3r" line, but I'm just ...