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50 Games in 2012 – #22 Assassins Creed: Revelations [PS3]

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 20, 2012
3 min

The yearly franchise is now a mainstay in the gaming industry. With the likes of Call of Duty cashing in each year Ubisoft and the Assassins Creed franchise followed suit. Both Assassins Creed 1 and 2 were games I thoroughly enjoyed with the latter being one of my favourite games to date.

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Deadpool terrorizes the masses with ‘Gangnam Style’ (video)

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 20, 2012
1 min

If you were a beloved comic book character who’s finally getting his own video game, how would you celebrate? Well, if you were Marvel’s “Merc with a Mouth,” you’d put on your best suit and hit the town to the soothing sounds of “Gangnam Style.”

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How Kickstarter could change the industry

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 17, 2012
2 min

Only a few years ago, if a video game developer really wanted to make a game, they had to pitch their game to...

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Why turtling is awesome

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 17, 2012
1 min

One of the most fun, yet least effective strategies in any real-time strategy game is turtling. Turtling refers to a player who wait for the late game to make any attacks, playing defensively early on with lots of defensive structures, while focusing on economic growth.

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Girl swipes car to find boy she met on Call of Duty: Black Ops

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 8, 2012
1 min

Who says Call of Duty: Black Ops isn't about love?

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How Curt Schilling ran 38 Studios into the ground

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 7, 2012
2 min

While Schilling himself may not have known too much about game development, I trusted that the combination of his significant fortune and such creative minds as Todd McFarlane and my then-favorite author, R.A. Salvatore would lead to great games. I was wrong.

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Magazine Memories: A journey from print to digital

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 6, 2012
3 min

Who knew that the best way to get me into video games was a magazine? Before 2007, video games were not a large part...

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50 Games in 2012 – #21 Rock of Ages [PSN]

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 5, 2012
2 min

I've played my fair share of interesting games but Rock of Ages has to be considered quite unique. I had no real ambition to play the game but due to it being a PlayStation plus title I decided to download Rock of Ages and give it a go.

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Sweet Satisfaction?

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 31, 2012
2 min

While many games feature incredible opening sequences and levels, they don’t always focus on something that is just as important: the end. The...

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Who’s to Blame for Nintendo Power’s Death?

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 29, 2012
3 min

I stumbled across BitMob a few weeks ago, and I’ve been an addict ever since. There are plenty of reasons for me to keep coming back; solid original content, a sincere interest in stories that are off the beaten path, the acceptance of uppity newbie writers like me.

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