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Bulletstorm is a cure for gaming sessions that last to long.

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 6, 2011
3 min

It seems that every game that has come out recently screams the same mantra. "Have a level grinding system to increase replay value." Don't get me wrong. I love that when I buy a game for sixty bucks it will stay in my system for months at a time.

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3 min

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U.S. consumers spent $4.5B on games in the second quarter

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 5, 2011
1 min

Consumers spent about $4.5 billion on all things game related in the second quarter of 2011, up 1 percent from a year ago, according...

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1 min

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iPhone 4S gets a sequel of Epic Games’ Infinity Blade, but doesn’t do much else for gaming

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 4, 2011
2 min

Gears of War developer Epic Games today unveiled the second version of its hardcore mobile hack-and-slash game, Infinity Blade — designed specifically for Apple’s...

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2 min

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Review: id Software grows up with next-generation shooting game Rage

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 4, 2011
7 min

Editor’s note: This post contains some story spoilers. After more than five years in gestation, id Software’s Rage video game hits the stores tonight....

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7 min

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The 6 Worst Xbox Achievements Ever Conceived

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 3, 2011
15 min

When Microsoft launched the Xbox 360 console in 2005 they included a new twist that would revolutionize the way people with lots of free...

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15 min

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Street Fighter IV or Mortal Kombat 9 – Which one is better?

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 2, 2011
7 min

These two franchises were big time rivals at the time of the Super Nintendo and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. Mortal Kombat represented the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Street Fighter 2 represented the Super Nintendo.

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Gears of War 3 sells 3 million in first week, more exclusives likely coming

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 1, 2011
1 min

Epic Games’ Gears of War 3 — one of the holiday season’s first blockbuster titles — has sold more than 3 million copies in...

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1 min

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Rest in Peace, Meta Knight

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 1, 2011
5 min

After over three long years, it's finally over. Blood has been forever spilled, lives forever lost. Society will always remember that fateful day when...

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5 min

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Deus Ex Part 5: Augmentations and controversies

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 1, 2011
5 min

This is part five of a six-piece blog series that shows my in-depth impressions of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I'll publish one post on...

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5 min

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Blood is thicker than water: An Assassin’s Creed: Revelations Prologue

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 30, 2011
5 min

Next month will see the release of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, which finds protagonist Ezio Auditore journeying to the former haunts of his predecessor Altair, lead there by a rumor of an ancient vault in the castle Masyaf. He learns of this vault in an old letter written by his deceased father.

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