Get Off My Lawn! – A Look Back and a New Beginning in Gaming

I remember it like it was yesterday. For my 21st birthday, I got a brand new Microsoft Xbox 360. I was pretty hyped, but I did feel a bit like a traitor. For the past two generations I've been a Sony man. I've been one of the millions of Playstation 1 and 2 owners in America, but now I've gone to the other side.

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Investigating something wicked in The Secret World

When Norwegian developer Funcom's latest massively multiplayer online role-playing game, The Secret World, launches in July, two things will no doubt set it apart from its competitors: its real-world Lovecraft meets Stephen King meets the X-Files setting and its challenging, brain-teasing missions.

Reason for excitement over ‘This Masked Miscreant’

This October you will be taking on the role of a masked assassin named Corvo out for blood in a neo-victorian steampunk dystopia. In a debut trailer released in April it is revealed that Corvo was once a guard for an Empress but found closest to her at her death and therefore marked as her murderer, hence the name Dishonored.