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Kratos: The Misunderstood Good Guy Covered in 500 Buckets of Blood

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 27, 2010
3 min

I'm not sure if it's too late to be writing about this game, I don't really think it should be, and getting to things late is part of being a poor gamer. I've beaten the game twice, and I'm working on a third time to get that last trophy, needless to say I enjoy the game.

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Who the Hell Are These Guys?! – Answers

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 24, 2010
2 min

Alright, Bitmob! Here are the correct answers from the contest I had in my last post. Please note that a character may have appeared...

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Rolling Start: Nascar Knights and Blur Beta Impressions

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 15, 2010
3 min

Rubbin’ is Racin’: Late Wednesday evening I mentioned to my friend TormentX that we needed to have a Nascar racing night. A night where we would purchase a stock car body from the store in Forza Motorsport 3 and then purchase somebody’s design from the game’s Storefront.

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Things I learned from Etrian Odyssey That RPG Developers Should

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 14, 2010
9 min

Mind you I did not quit JRPGs all together, I still play my favorites from time to time and only a few news ones I had welcomed with open arms (namely the recent Shin Megami Tensei releases), one RPG however wasn't only good, it made me question my RPG childhood.

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First Person — Star Trek: Bridge Commander

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 13, 2010
3 min

Two Romulan Warbirds de-cloak port and starboard. I barely have enough time to raise the shields before bright green streaks of energy cut the empty dead of space and impact our warp nacels. A hit like that would have disabled our engines.

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Top 5 Best (Fake) Video Game Movie Trailers Ever

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 8, 2010
2 min

You may have seen some of these fan made movie trailers for video games. Some of them are for actual movies and others are just random awesomeness.

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Scare Tactics – Episode #2: Featuring Deadly Premonition

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 8, 2010
3 min

Part of being scared certainly is the ‘surprise’ factor. Episode Two of Scare Tactics is what I would consider a ‘surprise’ edition as that I did not know up until the last hour that I would be writing this post.

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The Choices We Make

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 6, 2010
3 min

This post was going to be epic. I was going to use the relationship between Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 to talk about...

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No Strings Attached – 004 – Customisation (part 2 of the 3 C’s)

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 4, 2010
2 min

Once perceived as an 'extra', customisation is increasingly becoming a staple trait of Casual games. Social games, for instance the Facebook smash-hit Restaurant City,...

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Four.Fatal.Flaws – Heavy Rain

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 4, 2010
3 min

No game is perfect, but some games come real close. Introducing Four.Fatal.Flaws, a judgmental look at today’s most critically acclaimed video games. This...

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