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10 Best Collectibles In Games

As a GamerScore Whore (GSW) I detest collectibles. Most of the time collectibles prevent me from getting 1000G, because I just can’t be bothered to sit with a guide for [...]

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Wolf’s Wicked Words: Clever Narratives

Why do we need a villain? What is their purpose? Do we so desperately crave the need for a hero? A hero that will fight the damnable hordes of heinous [...]

5 Awesome Vehicular Combat Games

Remember the days when vehicular combat games were king and there was always a release to look forward to every year. This year this gem of a genre has returned [...]

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Gaming Like A Sir: Piracy And Porn

An Assessment Of Piracy And DRM Through The Use Of Pornography. I know you’re here for the porn. But now that I have you I’m going to present one idea [...]

Torchlight 2 Beta: First Impressions

Complaints and berating aside, having (strike: tried to) played Diablo 3, I must concede it’s undoubtedly an awesome game that easily does more good than it does wrong. Having said [...]

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Preview: DiRT: Showdown

Name: DiRT: Showdown Platforms: PC, PS3, Xbox 360 Genre: Racing Developer: Codemasters Southam Publisher: Codemasters Racing Worldwide Release Date: 25-29 May 2012 Local (SA) Release Date: 25 May 2012 (expected) Expected Prices: PC – R361, PS3 – R499, 360 – R499 Slip, slide, [...]

Life, The Universe, And Gaming — Gamers Rarely Know What They Want

There’s a reason why game developers let us in on as little information as possible, at a time. There’s also a reason why they don’t always look to their community [...]

Tody’s Take: Difficulty Settings Need To Have More Thought Put Into Them

In my last column I talked about the problems with gaming tutorials, and today I’m going to rant about difficulty settings, because I feel that they are another area that [...]

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Duncan’s Debates: Should Competitive Games Be Considered ‘Sports’?

Welcome back to another exciting edition of Duncan’s Debates, where we aim to argue about anything and everything related to games and their industry. In the last installment we looked [...]

5 Real-Life Addictions Cured By Gaming

Addictions are a bad thing kids. They can ruin your life and make everyone miserable. If you smoke one cigarette, you will die (Mean Girls reference, and I’m NOT gay). [...]

Quest Updated: Audible Atmosphere

I take a moment to gather my thoughts. I put the gramophone on, and the voice of Bobby Darin fills the old saloon. My heart rate finally drops again. I [...]

Preview: Diablo III

Can you actually believe it? Diablo III is set to release in less than a week, ending a nearly 12 year long wait for one of the most anticipated RPG [...]

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7 Bad-Ass Gaming Characters

The world is filled with bad-asses. There is no two-ways about it. Bad-asses. There you have it, folks. Welcome to tonight’s show, grab a flask of mysterious and harmful liquid [...]

Musing Of A Mad Hatter: Passionate Hatred

I’m what you would call a modern gamer. I did, in fact, grow up playing NES games on one of those old shameless rip-off Golden China consoles and I somehow [...]

Gaming Like A Sir: Excited For Black Ops 2, The Modern Warfare Effect

I’ve been feeling nostalgic of late. Maybe it’s the cold, wet weather of contemplation or perhaps it’s the long lonely, music filled bus rides of late or perhaps it’s my [...]

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Fringe Division – Game Making: A Brief Personal History

Hello there readers. Now to be honest with you, I really couldn’t think of anything to write on this week, and I’m quite vehemently opposed to churning out mindless ranting [...]

Review: The Witcher 2: Assassins Of Kings: Enhanced Edition

When The Witcher 2 first released, it fell into a niche that was at the time rather unfilled, except perhaps by Demon Souls for PS3. It was a game that [...]

Unanticipated April Was.. Interesting?

Silly headline, isn’t it? Initially, you’d think so. Instead, let’s stay open-minded and run through what actually happened in April. April is a somewhat quiet month, especially after the carnage [...]

May 2012′s Game Releases

April was a great gaming month with many fantastic highlights, including games like Angry Birds Space, FEZ, Journey, Silent Hill: Downpour, Catherine and Twisted Metal. The only game we’re missing [...]

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5 Free-To-Play MMOs That Are Worth Looking At

Do you need a little break from all the awesome AAA titles released this year so far? No, well are you tired of playing the same awesome free-to-play games like [...]

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Life, The Universe, And Gaming — It’s Complicated

Complexity and difficulty. Two huge aspects of gaming that many have argued, no longer exist in gaming. Everything’s simplified now, easier, more accessible. A first-time gamer could pick up and [...]

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Tody’s Take: Please God, Stop The Tutorials

After attending the Cape Town Prototype 2 launch event this past Thursday night, and getting to play the game, I stumbled once again upon one of the things that I [...]

Hall Of Fame: Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic

Welcome to the fifth entry in our Hall of Fame feature, where we’ll be revisiting arguably what is one of video game history’s greatest ever adaptions of Star Wars, and [...]

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Things Left Unfinish…

It sounds like an old dial-up modem. When last did I even hear one? The beeping has ripped through that familiar little jazzy number that was playing on the radio, [...]

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Preview: Game Of Thrones

A Song of Ice and Fire, a best selling novel which has recently become more popular than ever. Written by George R.R. Martin, the fantasy novel was already a great [...]

Hands-On: Sleeping Dogs

Last week Friday, I had the awesome opportunity to get my hands on Sleeping Dogs, a game that started out as a sequel to the famed but flawed True Crime [...]

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6 Games That Were Unfairly Bashed

Gamers are gamers. They will always find any minuscule reason to whine and bitch about a little annoyance in a game that is so insignificant that it’s hardly noteworthy. In some cases [...]

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Wolf’s Wicked Words: 1.2mm Of Awesome

Feeling the weight of the world on your shoulders, gasping for redemption in the form of precious air, with so much at stake. Should I continue with my current path [...]

Indie Review: FEZ

Us gamers are getting really spoiled from surprising places lately. I can’t remember a time where so many awesome Arcade and Indie games were released so close to each other, [...]

Competition: Win A Prototype 2 Collectors Edition For PlayStation 3

Ever wondered about the Tendrils on our logo? Did you know that it related to Prototype 2? Well, now you do. To support, and celebrate, the release of Prototype 2, [...]

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