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Konami: ‘No Current Plans’ for Console Silent Hill: The Arcade
I contacted Konami yesterday to see if there was a planned console release for Silent Hill: The Arcade. “It’s not on any current plans,” was the official response from their European PR handlers, Voltage
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January 2012: The Month of Gaming Spin-offs
Well here we are, another year and another release schedule. If I was 2012 I would be concerned right now; 2011 is a tough act to follow, as far as video games goes. January
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Why Metal Gear 5 Will Suck MASSIVE Dick
That bastard Hideo Kojima depressed me no-end yesterday, when Eurogamer published a direct quote of his from an interview he recently gave to Official Playstation Magazine. “I think we’ll probably have to make it
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Excuse me, where are my boss fights?
*WARNING: SPOILERS BELOW!* I’m irked. I feel a lot of key titles this generation have let down hardcore gamers because of their story-driven principles. Well, let me down at least. Maybe I’m just tired
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The Five Best Gaming Jokes in the Latest Simpsons Episode
Our opinion of The Simpsons? It’s certainly waned an awful lot since the twelfth season, but we can forgive it. We grew up with it, it helped shape our generation, and it’s a cartoon
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Five Books That Would Make Great Video Games
Award-winning author Christopher Fowler, writing for CVG today, asks why more books aren’t turned into video games, citing them as an excellent source of inspiration. Fowler says: “Imagine a game of JG Ballard’s ‘High
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Why There’s No Defence for the New Features in Fifa 12
Like every modern football fan, I demand instant success. If my team loses three games in a row then I want to see the manager publicly hung, drawn and quartered, all from the comfort
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Free to Play: In a League of its Own!
The last few years has seen a change in how we purchase our games and feed our addiction. It used to be the normal thing to go out to a shop and buy a
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Is There Any Way Back for Music-based Games?
When we’re not whittling our lives away looking at porn, we’re usually doing a good impression of Scrooge McDuck. Credit and Debit cards in hand, we’ll scour the internet for the best gaming bargains
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How Microsoft is Killing Gaming with Sinister SEO
Never heard of SEO? We used to work in it for a living, and let us tell you, it can be a horrible mistress at the best of times. Standing for ‘Search Engine Optimisation’,
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The Two-tier Gaming Premier League
Follow football? Then you’ll know how boring the Scottish Premier League is, with only Celtic and Rangers realistically contesting the title every year. The same two-horse race happened this year in Spain with only
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Why the Real Winner at E3 is PC Gaming
Muted. Boring. Stale. That’s our impressions of E3 so far, from Nintendo’s atrocious spin as a mass innovator with Wii U, to Microsoft’s appalling Kinect line-up. Hiding behind Halo didn’t really do much for
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