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Attention: Gaming Industry

Dear Gaming Industry, it is completely mind-boggling to me how out of touch you, the people who are actually running the industry, are. No, you aren’t analysts like Michael Pachter, [...]

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Clone Wars: Electronic Arts Vs Zynga

For those of you who only come out from under your rock every few years and need a catch-up, here are the details in brief: Electronic Arts has announced that [...]

Today I Just Lost A Little More Faith In Humanity

Today I just lost a little more faith in humanity and gamers as a whole. For those of you who do not know, the Humble Indie Bundle consists of five very [...]

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Achievements, What Are They Good For?

We have heard it all before. “They are addictive and take the fun away from a game because all you do is play for Achievements.” Yes this is true, but [...]

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Metacritic’s Influence On The Gaming Industry

Any gamer worth his or her salt knows about Metacritic, the portal that aggregates scores from various review websites, and people, and gives it a numerical value. The site focuses [...]

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Do You Suffer From Gamer Fatigue?

Like most of the writers on eGamer and those reading my articles I can assume most of us have been gamers for the majority of our lives. After reading this article on [...]

When A Game Developer Goes Bankrupt

It is always sad to hear when a big (or small) game developer files for bankruptcy. As gamers we tend to view it from only one perspective: that of a company [...]

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Review: The Walking Dead: Episodes 1-2

However, I can tell you that the Telltale style and game mechanics offered matches The Walking Dead perfectly. With this, I am happy to report that Telltale has successfully created [...]

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Gaming Nostalgia: Good And Bad

Nos·tal·gi·a (n -st l j , n -). n. 1. A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past.  George Wildman once said: “Nostalgia is a seductive liar.” No [...]

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Do I Hear People Say That I Am A Whiny, Self-Entitled Gamer?

Do I hear people say that I am a whiny, self-entitled gamer? Sure, I am, and I won’t deny it. I do, however, find it increasingly sad to see how [...]

The Uncanny Valley Of Digital Cleavage

Here at eGamer we pride ourselves on delivering good wholesome family entertainment for everyone. With cerebral thought provoking articles about games and gaming culture. We would never ever resort to [...]

5 Gaming Web Apps That Will Make Your Life Easier

In my many travels across the interwebs, I have found several really useful web-applications that will make your life easier if you are the owner of an Xbox 360, PS3 or [...]

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For The Budget Gamers

Every gamer who is reading this has at least once had the experience of not having enough money to purchase a game they really wanted, and contemplated selling vital organs [...]

Left 4 Dead Live-Action Trailer Shows Probably The Best Fan Film You’ll Watch All Year

Director Adrian Picardi’s live-action fan trailer for a Left 4 Dead movie shows the four survivors gearing up for combat as the infected roam the streets, tear apart bodies, and [...]

Games Are Not To Blame For Norway Massacre

This is the face of evil. This is a pathological killer who loathes Muslims; a conspirator, racist and ultra-extremist, whose hateful beliefs were the reason for his horrid attacks on the Utoya [...]

Game Reviews, Just Another Sales Pitch?

Ever since big titles such as Mass Effect, Skyrim, and Call of Duty became popular, and hit the mainstream gaming market, I started noticing that game reviews were changing. Is it just [...]

Gamers, Who Are They?

Click the image to enlarge. Or, read the entire thing in text form. “You know, when I was 15, 16, 17-years-old , I spent five hours a day juggling, and I [...]

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Full Time Father, Half Hour Hero

You would think because I am such an avid gamer and geek that my whole childhood was also filled games and comics, but oddly enough it wasn’t. I was more content climbing trees, [...]

Do Used Games Hurt Developers?

After reading an article by Denis Dyack, from Silicon Knights, saying that used games hurt developers, I was somewhat curious about this. Denis Dyack is from the very same Silicon [...]

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Why Fans Get Annoyed With DLC

This is a simple, yet effective, infographic showing the difference between DLC from couple of years back versus now. It’s pretty funny, and it points out the truth on how [...]

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Review: Deadly Creatures

George Struggs and Wade are looking for a location in the desert where they believe gold from the American Civil War has been buried. The story is told from the perspective of tarantula and the scorpion with both creatures often seeing the same thing but from a different perspective. When Struggs and Wade finally find the civil war gold, Struggs turns on Wade and this is where the story of Deadly Creatures really kicks off without giving much away.

First 60 minutes with MadWorld

Yes it has finally hit our shores, well not really since I had to import my copy of Madworld at least I got it almost 2 weeks before our local release date and at the fraction of the cost it is getting sold at here. Anyway after a quick Wii system update from the disk, you are first greeted with a black and white noir style menu.

New Nintendo Wii update now with SD card channel

Yes you read the topic correctly, run a system update on you console and after it restarts check out the new “SD channel” located next to the Wii system channel. And yes if you are thinking what I am thinking, you can now run your virtual console and Wiiware games off your SD card. And that is not all; the new Wii system update also adds support for SDHC cards up to 32 GB! That is a crap load of virtual console games…

Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles announced for Wii

Capcom yesterday announced its plans for a big comeback of its multi-million-selling franchise, Resident Evil to the Nintendo Wii. Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, is the sequel to the highly successful Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, and is in development exclusively for the Wii and is set to hit stores this coming winter.

Review: Halo Wars

Halo Wars takes place in the 26th century Halo universe. In 2525, humans were attacked by a collective of alien races known as the Covenant. The Covenant declared humanity an affront to their gods, the Forerunners, and have aggressively waged war against the humans, under the auspices of the United Nations Space Command.

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Metroid Prime Cosplay by “Yuki”

Okay color me very impressed but this has to be the best Metroid Prime Varia Suit cosplays I have seen to date.Thaís Jussim, aka Yuki, is a fantastic, 26-year-old, Brazilian [...]

Top Ten things to do in Halo Wars

Jack an enemy Wraith tank with a Spartan. This is the absolute best “money shot” in the entire game.

Download the Halo Wars tech tree chart

To give you a better understanding of Halo Wars tech tree and unit structures, and all the upgrades available in the game, Xbox.com posted a downloadable Halo Wars tech tree [...]

Review: House of The Dead: Overkill

Set in 1991 before the events of House of the Dead, AMS Special Agent G is given his first assignment and sent to a small town in Louisiana to investigate a series of disappearances and hunt down a deranged crime lord, Papa Caesar. Due to the presence of mutants, G is forced to team up with Detective Isaac Washington who is out to get revenge on Caesar for apparently killing his father. The pair first storm a house out in the woods. Upon entering the basement, they find Caesar has fled, and the disabled scientist Jasper Guns, whom Caesar used, is horrifically mutated from injecting himself with an unknown substance. Upon defeating Jasper, G and Isaac meet Varla Guns, a stripper and Jasper’s sister who vows revenge on Caesar.

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Deadly Creatures (First Impressions)

George Struggs and Wade, voiced by Billy Bob Thornton and Dennis Hopper. Is looking for a location in the desert where they believe gold from the American Civil War has been buried. The story is told from the point of view of both the tarantula and the scorpion with both creatures often seeing the same thing but from a different perspective.