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Reviews Spotlight: Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Killzone 3, cloud computing, and more

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 14, 2011
3 min

As always, the Reviews Spotlight collects the community's most perceptive, interesting, and well-written reviews for your reading pleasure. Take notes and enjoy these impressions!...

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Atari of War

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 13, 2011
5 min

Sun Tzu’s text The Art of War has long been regarded as a classic military text. However, its versatility has made it required reading...

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Interview: Santa Ragione on Fotonica, design challenges, and indie gaming

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 13, 2011
4 min

Chances are you've never heard of Fotonica. Hosted on Kongregate, the browser-based game features an artfully abstract take on parkour running that's heavily reminiscent...

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Killzone 3 — Clear Example Why Most FPSs Need To Be Multiplayer-only

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 13, 2011
5 min

With a more refined engine, we now get to enjoy all the hammy dialogue and nonsensical twists and turns in a campaign mode, that is as insulting as it is comically entertaining. Killzone 3 is a game and it exists. Why it exists, remains to be seen.

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Killzone 2 Review — High Definition Awful

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 13, 2011
5 min

Look at the havoc that this era of three dimensions has wrought upon single player games. I’ve actually owned Killzone 2 for quite sometime and finally decided to give it a proper playthrough once Killzone 3was placed at my doorstep.

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Dragon Age 2 fails to consider standard-definition TV owners

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 12, 2011
3 min

Have you bought Dragon Age 2? Have you been playing it all week? Are you enjoying it? Before you answer, let me ask you...

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Week in review: Epic Games shows off amazing graphics

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 12, 2011
2 min

Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days: Epic Games shows...

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News Blips: Black Ops highest selling game ever, Xbox 360 could outsell Wii, Dragon Age 2 harbors SecuROM, and more

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 12, 2011
3 min

Regular Friday News Blips writer Jeff Grubb is indisposed due to having the time of his life at PAX East, so you're stuck with...

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Free Realms will be first free-to-play online world on PlayStation Network

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 11, 2011
2 min

Free-to-play online gaming is coming to the PlayStation 3. Free Realms, a massively multiplayer virtual world game that launched on the PC two years...

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Zynga prepares launch of expansion game FarmVille English Countryside

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 11, 2011
4 min

In one of its most important moves as a young company, Zynga is announcing today that it will launch a follow-up expansion to its...

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