Games that are doomed to die in 2010
"We don’t claim to be psychics (well, actually, we probably have claimed that a few times), but these are the games of 2010 that, based on precedents set by the last few years and what we know about the market, we don’t expect to flood any coffers. We hope we’re proven wrong."[via games radar]
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EA Officially Announces ‘NBA Jam’
"NBA Jam will be an exclusive for the Nintendo Wii, and all-new features with a fresh new take on the game that will combine the old school with the new. There are still no details yet but do expect new modes, Wii visuals, characters and what EA PR is calling “gameplay depth.”[via gossip gamers]
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Top Games of 2009
"Actually, it's more like Joystiq's Top 3 of 2009, followed by Joystiq's Top 7 That Were Left In The Dust By Said Top 3. We agonized over the bottom seven choices, trading positions just as we traded tantrums and highly unprofessional insinuations with each other, but nobody on the Joystiq staff could...
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Guild Wars 2 – The Races of Tyria Trailer
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Top Videogames of the Decade
"This is it! After an entire week of counting down the Top 50 Videogames of the Decade (you can click here, here, here, and here for the other parts), we have reached the final set of games. Part Five (#10-1). The ten best games of the ’00s."[via destructoid]
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Kinds of gamers you’ll ever come across
"Games fall into many categories; action, sports, horror, stealth, role playing, strategy, simulators…Each one will suit a different person’s tastes, and many will like several genres- but there are very few who enjoy all. And out of these various genres of games will arise a certain type of gamer…a...
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Videogame Foods to Die For
"Rumors of our addiction to potato chips and cheese snacks are greatly exaggerated. What's a typical gamer to the layperson? A sedentary slob with one hand clutching a controller and the other stuck perpetually in a Frito-Lay bag or down his trousers. But we're no mere coach potatoes blithely watching...
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Things You Should Never Say to a Gamer Girl
"There's just something about a girl who plays video games. More than any other hobby or pastime, the rare subset of attractive women who game just seems to titillate the male imagination with the prospect of sex outside of WoW. So we can understand why you might get a little tongue-tied in the presence...
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XBOX 360’s Have A 60% Chance To Red Ring
"Sixty per cent of Xbox 360s have kicked the red-ringed bucket, compared to 16 per cent of PS3s and just 6 per cent of Wiis, according to our survey on the reliability of games consoles in the UK. CNET UK commissioned the survey last month -- and the results don't reflect well on the Microsoft console....
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Free to Play Shooters
"Sure, a truly awesome FPS was released last week (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, for those of you living under a rock), but if you're too broke, too cheap, or just too plain lazy to go out and buy it, you can still get your game on with these online shooters, all of which are free to play on your PC....
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