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Review: Should you buy Star Wars: The Old Republic?

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 19, 2011
13 min

Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft could soon be feeling a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of subscribers suddenly cried out and...

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The significance of a game’s setting

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 19, 2011
3 min

Setting is one of the biggest reasons that I enjoy the role-playing genre. In my experience, no two RPGs are quite the same in...

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Star Wars: The Old Republic debuts on Tuesday as one of the most ambitious games ever

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 18, 2011
5 min

BioWare’s epic new online game Star Wars: The Old Republic debuts on Tuesday. A persistent world known as a massively multiplayer online game (MMO),...

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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance documentary cuts a slice of truth

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 18, 2011
1 min

A big question mark floats over the Metal Gear Solid community. For all its mastery of portmanteau, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance nevertheless drew lukewarm...

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Uncharted 3: Drake’s safe repetition

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 18, 2011
8 min

Nathan Drake is a nearly perfect human being. He's multilingual, has a vast knowledge of historical explorers, he probably knows where every country, capital city and street is in each continent and he's not even 40 years old.

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Sony launches the PlayStation Vita in Japan to big crowds

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 18, 2011
2 min

Sony finally launched its PlayStation Vita portable game system in Japan today as thousands of game fans lined up early to buy it. The...

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What Zynga taught the game industry: Consumers are in charge

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 17, 2011
3 min

Zynga’s IPO yesterday marks a major milestone for the games business. It marks something more important and profound than validation of Facebook’s ecosystem or...