You really have to hand it to the PR folks at BioWare and EA. This promotional image for the game quotes Entertainment Weekly but leaves out all the context, spinning widespread discontent into pure gold: One can’t help but wonder if this was done on purpose, just to needle all those “entitled” fans out there […]
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There’s been a ton of speculation and rumor surrounding the spotting of CEO on a visit to Valve, the developer behind the popular Portal and Half-Life franchises, and the powerhouse behind the extremely successful digital gaming distribution service, Steam. Are and Valve working together to develop some exciting new hardware? Possibly the answer to the […]
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I’ve begun playing Mount & Blade: Warband and I like it quite a bit. It gives me a taste of what to expect from Paradox Interactive’s upcoming War of the Roses – one of my most-anticipated games of 2012. Mount & Blade combines some third-person role-playing elements with medieval real-time-strategy. You have a character who […]
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Valve managing director, Michael Abrash, has pulled the veil off of the rumored hardware the gaming outfit is working on: wearable computing. “To be clear, this is R&D,” writes Abrash in a blog post at the Valve blog, “it doesn’t in any way involve a product at this point, and won’t for a long while, […]
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As you may or may not have heard, video game publishing giant recently came under fire for what at least appeared to be blatant plagiarism when screen-shots for the browser-based game Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliance were revealed to be exact copies of tanks from Warhammer 40,000. The watchers at reddit were quick to jump […]
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German developer, BigPoint, has struck a deal with HBO to develop a massively-multiplayer-online-role-playing-game based on George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series and the television show Game of Thrones. BigPoint has worked on a number of browser-based games as well as Battlestar Galactica Online, and has plenty of experience with the free-to-play model. […]
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German developer, BigPoint, has struck a deal with HBO to develop a massively-multiplayer-online-role-playing-game based on George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series and the television show Game of Thrones. BigPoint has worked on a number of browser-based games as well as Battlestar Galactica Online, and has plenty of experience with the free-to-play model. […]
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German developer, BigPoint, has struck a deal with HBO to develop a massively-multiplayer-online-role-playing-game based on George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series and the television show Game of Thrones. BigPoint has worked on a number of browser-based games as well as Battlestar Galactica Online, and has plenty of experience with the free-to-play model. […]
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There are already a handful of Game of Thrones video games, either released or in production – including one enterprising Mount & Blade mod – but what George R. R. Martin’s popular series really needs is a fighting game. Something like this: The artist who devised this clever piece of fan art says he’s considering […]
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Can J.K. Rowling, author of the wildly successful Harry Potter franchise, find a new readership with adults? Rowling and publisher Little, Brown Book Group certainly hope so. Her new book, titled “The Casual Vacancy,” hits shelves on September 27th. The last Harry Potter novel hit store shelves five years ago, though the final movie adaptation […]
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