With the rise of internet streaming video, knock-off films like ‘Kiara the Brave’ are making a comeback.
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Month: August 2012
Clone Wars: Zynga Vs. EA And The Baffling Laziness Of Copycat Games
has an excellent photo retrospective on games purportedly cloned without permission by social gaming behemoth, Zynga. If a picture’s worth a thousand words, Paul’s post is a novel’s worth of damning images. Imitation may be the purest form of flattery, but it can also get you sued. Glancing through each set of creepily similar screenshots, […]
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It’s Official: Blizzard Hacked, Account Information Stolen
Blizzard has been hacked and account information has been stolen, the World of Warcraft and Diablo III developer and publisher reports.
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Sony Isn’t Abandoning ‘The Last Guardian’
Rumors of the death of ‘The Last Guardian’ have been greatly exaggerated.
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Dark Souls PC Edition Locked At 30FPS, 1024 x 720 Internal Resolution
John Papodopolous at DSO Gaming has the bad news: It has been confirmed from the preview codes of Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition that the PC version is locked at 30fps. Yes yes, the one thing we claimed back in June. Not only that, but the internal resolution is locked to 1024×720. What’s funny […]
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Mass Effect 3, BioWare, And The Perils Of Writing About Video Games
So I wrote a post recently saying that for my part, I’m going to wait and see if BioWare listens to its upset fans and takes their complaints into account for their next game. I described the developer as having had three strikes at bat, so far as much of the gaming community was concerned: […]
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Will Valve Use Steam Workshop To Revolutionize Non-Gaming Software?
Valve will offer non-gaming software through its Steam platform starting in September. Is this the beginning of free-to-play software?
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Sands Of Darkness: The Good, The Bad, And Ugly Of ‘Spec Ops: The Line’ (PC)
2K’s third-person shooter ‘Spec Ops: The Line’ is one of the smartest shooters, and most interesting video games, in recent memory.
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The ‘Dark Souls’ About Page Is Not About ‘Dark Souls’
If you’ve beaten Dark Souls, you’ll know all about the King’s Crowns, and those pesky immortal shadow dwarves. Except wait, no, you won’t… I was reading up on the soon-to-be released Prepare to Die edition of Dark Souls today, and came across the About page for Dark Souls. At the top they list the additions coming in the […]
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‘Darksiders II’ Will Feature Arena Mode, New Game Plus
Beat the first world in Darksiders 2 and enter The Crucible. Beat the game and play again in New Game Plus.
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