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Company of Heroes returns as free-to-play online game in U.S.

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 3, 2010
3 min

Company of Heroes was one of the best real-time strategy games on the PC when it debuted back in 2006. Now the World War...

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Looking at the Game Industry’s Future

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 3, 2010
6 min

Editor's note: Fozzy gives a quick recap of where the gaming industry has been trending toward and offers some interesting predictions on what he...

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You Didn’t Fail Games. Games Are Failing You

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 3, 2010
5 min

Go ahead: Try and explain this heads-up display to a nongamer. Try and explain this HUD to someone who doesn't play role-playing games. I'll pray...

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Fast Times at Tiger Telematics High

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 3, 2010
3 min

In the history of video games, Gizmondo is as welcome as an Uwe Boll movie. An overpriced piece of hardware that offered little benefit to gamers other than handheld ad delivering device Gizmondo was destined to acquire less success than the Nokia N-gage.

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(30) Days of RPGs: June 2010

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 3, 2010
4 min

Editor's note: After a rather dry month in May, we get a couple of interesting RPGs choices in June. While I'm going to dig...

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Game Journalists Should Drop Preview Coverage

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 3, 2010
3 min

Editor's note: Chris highlights an issue with games journalism that media scholars Robert McChesney and John Nichols have long recognized as a problem with...

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GameStop shuffles CEO as digital distribution arrives

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 2, 2010
2 min

GamesStop, the world’s biggest video game retailer, is going through a chief executive change as the digital distribution of games is coming on strong....