Kinect - The Future

The motion sensor device Kinect has been in stores for a good few months now and has slowly been encouraging people around the world to part with their hard earned cash. The concept is simple – play games with the movements of your body – pushing the boundaries of fun for the whole family. I’m probably going to sound like a cynic here but the Kinect hasn’t really achieved enough so far to grab my attention. The potential is there and the ideas are...

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Bioware DLC Update

In a response to the huge fan feedback BioWare have decided to extend the ending of their ever popular Mass Effect franchise but the problems didn’t stop there. It’s safe to imply that this article will include several major storyline spoilers for those that haven’t finished the game and will touch on many aspects that cause controversy with the final instalment. The ending of course disappointed many fans due to the lack of impact the players ‘decisions’...

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Skyrim DLC Update Due

Skyrim has been floating along over the last 6 monhs and many people are still plugging hundreds of hours into their playthroughs. In fact the average playtime of all games on all platforms is now up to 85 hours; with 30% of all games being played exceeding the 100 hours mark. We can therefore safely assume that this has become one of the most popular RPG of the current generation but what is around the corner to keep people playing? Although there...

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Mass Effect - The Ending

So Mass Effect 3 has received its fair share of backlash since its worldwide release last month – I’ll touch on this over the next few days. One of these particular problems was picked up by fans who outlined their disappointment with the ending of the Shepard saga – incidentally BioWare are now looking at giving the whole thing a fresh facelift. In short BioWare have announced a patch to fix various glitches and also one to flesh out the finale. The...

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Gaming Baggage

I read an interesting article on IGN the other day about our dirty little gaming secrets. I mean we all have some sort of ‘Baggage’ and it would be difficult not to have some relating to our favourite pastimes. Here I am talking about my gaming secrets, of which some have never been heard before, so feel privileged you’re reading this. These might relate to some of you too as I’m sure we all have a few games we’ve never played or stories about games...

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Are Console's Dying?

So the Video Game Industry is worth around $25 billion a year so why do we keep seeing articles on consoles being dead? I know this is scary stuff, being a gamer too the thought of losing my beloved Xbox 360 is hopefully a worry I will never have to contend with – at least not until the Xbox 720 or whatever it’s going to be called is announced, - but the hazards to the industry are very real. So console gaming is obviously a massive market; games...

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GAME Saved

GAME have been saved – Administrators PwC have confirmed OpCapita’s purchase of GAME UK. In fact to be more specific Baker Acquisitions Limited, an entity advised by private investment company OpCapita, has picked up GAME's UK assets, including all 333 UK GAME and Gamestation stores that remained open during administration. This acquisition is great news for the company and for the industry itself too. The gaming giant have now come of our administration,...

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Xbox Lite Rumours...

So another rumour has hit the web this week in relation to another new Xbox model in development at Microsoft. Originally reported by REDDIT user MSNerd the post stated that Microsoft are working on an ‘Xbox Lite’ that they hope to release during 2013. This new system would be released before any of their next-generation offerings and be based on the current Xbox 360 system but in a much more stripped down form. The post itself mentioned that this...

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The Good, The Bad and The Walking Dead

So with the success of AMC’s the Walking Dead many developers have been pitching their ideas to create a game based on the series for some time. Finally we are now being fed tasty snippets of information relating to the series tie in from Telltale Games. The Walking Dead: The Game as it’s being called will be an episodic series available via download and will tie in with both the Television adaptation and the original comic book series by Robert...

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