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Sony Right to Not Panic Over Vita Just Yet

PlayStation Vita

Not unlike the situation Nintendo was faced with in the months after the launch of the 3DS, there has been talk of doom and gloom regarding the Vita. Sales of the new handheld have not been particularly mind-blowing in Japan since launch, and Sony has

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OP-ED: I’m Getting Too Old for These Long Games

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning has a lot of content. This much we know. Releasing next week isn't the most perfect time as far as I'm concerned with the Vita's launch on the horizon and both Twisted Metal and Resident Evil: Revelations competing for

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Skyrim Predicts the Super Bowl

While everyone on the internet is busy running Madden simulations to predict the Super Bowl we thought we'd take a different approach. In order to determine the winner between the Patriots and the Giants, we're taking Skyrim's home-grown patriots, the Stormcloaks, and pitting them against the country's giants.


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Yakuza: Dead Souls Wants to be Every Zombie Game

You know a trend is getting out of hand when even the complaints about it start to grate on the nerves; that said, I'm going to take it easy on the zombie-game genre in this brief look at Sega's upcoming addition to the Yakuza series, Dead...

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Mass Effect 3 Demo Shows the Absurdity of Xbox Live Gold

Downloading the upcoming February 14 Mass Effect 3 demo will upgrade the subscriptions of Xbox Live Silver members to Gold so that all players can sample the game's multiplayer before its release on March 6.

The temporary upgrade system that the demo takes advantage of

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What You Need To Know About DOTA 2

No matter how popular DOTA gets, it can still be hard to find fellow players -- even at the 1UP/IGN office, a fair amount of people don't even know what it is. For the newbies, DOTA is a user-created scenario done in the Warcraft III World Editor....

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Six Game Design Crimes on Trial

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Senseless Bill Would Tax "Violent" Games Based on ESRB Ratings

Oklahoma Legislature

Reflecting the fact that last year's Supreme Court decision, which reaffirmed videogames qualify for First Amendment protection in the United States, wasn't quite clear enough for everyone, Oklahoma state representative William Fourkiller has introduced a new piece of legislation sure to draw the ire of

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Surprisingly Constructive Protest Planned for Half-Life 3

I love Half-Life, but somewhere around E3 2010 I resigned myself to the fact that Half-Life 3 won't see the light of day anytime soon. Steam, Portal, Left 4 Dead, Dota 2, Counter-Strike, as well as some projects we've probably never heard...

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How Swapnote Went From a Limited DSi App to the Best Reason to Have Friends on 3DS

Swapnote

Since being released for 3DS just over a month ago, 10 million notes have already been exchanged through Swapnote. Considering the size of the 3DS install base is still relatively small, it's an impressive achievement. Swapnote is, however, hardly perfect, and a lot of that

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