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5 Things That Don’t Really Make Sense In Gaming
21 May, 2013 1:00 PM | Marko Games are not supposed to be realistic as we all know. Sure, some games strive to have a more “realistic” setting and mechanics, but in the end it always comes [...]
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Retrospective Look At Games I Was Too Lenient On, And Too Harsh On
21 May, 2013 12:00 PM | Azhar I have to be honest and say that it’s not often I feel I was a little off in my verdict of a game. Most of the reviews I’ve done [...]
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7 Comments
Wolf’s Wicked Words: Games By Day, Experiences By Night
21 May, 2013 11:00 AM | Rudolf Tension. It is one of those feelings some gamers adore. We transfer ourselves into these worlds that gaming provides us and we WANT to be hunted. We want to be [...]
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Quest Updated: ‘Watergate’ Is Fun, Unfortunately
17 May, 2013 11:00 AM | Brendan I spent a few hours earlier this week, between reading academic articles and Moby Dick, playing a browser-based game with a concept that caught my eye. As I often do [...]
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Hall Of Fame: Star Wars: Republic Commando
15 May, 2013 5:00 PM | Azhar Welcome to the seventh entry in our Hall of Fame feature, which is a feature that comes around when it feels like it. Or rather, when divine intervention occurs and I [...]
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Deadpool Is Breaking The Fourth Wall
15 May, 2013 1:00 PM | Alessandro Deadpool isn’t the type of hero you’d think could star in his own video game. In fact, Deadpool isn’t exactly the hero you’d expect to star anywhere. Why? Well Deadpool [...]
Experience Points: Violent Games Help Us
15 May, 2013 11:00 AM | Adam After reading up on US Vice President Joe Biden’s recent remarks, regarding statements he made that violent games should have some form of sin tax, I was a tad flabbergasted. [...]
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6 Comments
Interview: 2K Marin On The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
14 May, 2013 5:00 PM | Adam Recently, we, here at eGamer, managed to sit down with Nico Bihary and Alyssa Finley from 2K Marin, and interviewed them about the studio’s upcoming game The Bureau: XCOM Declassified. [...]
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5 Games Still Enjoyable On The Most Difficult Setting
14 May, 2013 1:00 PM | Rudolf In between all the debates regarding politics, economics and pretty much all the things I’m not quite fond of, I’ve wondered about games and their difficulty settings. I do like [...]
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12 Comments
Abyssal Pixels: The Good Old Days
14 May, 2013 11:00 AM | Marko I’ve never been one for nostalgia because I didn’t grow up with the games that are now considered nostalgic. If the majority of gamers think nostalgia they think Mario, Zelda, [...]
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4 Comments
Life, The Universe, And Gaming: Ludonarrative Dissonance
13 May, 2013 11:00 AM | Caveshen Or: How Suspension Of Disbelief Is So Nineties. Picture if you will, you’ve just arrived at a predetermined location with your ally in tow. Opting to look around rather than [...]
The Fifth Column: It Is Not The Video Games
9 May, 2013 11:00 AM | Ebrahim It never ceases to amaze me how technology is used as a scapegoat for social ills. When I was in junior school, television was the great one eyed devil that [...]
GRID 2 Focuses On Pure Racing, Bringing Across Each Car’s Personality
8 May, 2013 1:00 PM | Dean GRID 2, the follow on from 2008′s Race Driver: Grid, is scheduled to release on the 31st of May. Developed by Codemasters Racing, the game is an arcade racer which [...]
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5 Comments
Peaception: Parents Do Your Job Before Your Child Kills Me
8 May, 2013 11:00 AM | Peloma I’m usually laid back with my articles but for this one I’m going to be serious because it’s a subject I feel strongly about, and that’s the negative portrayal of [...]
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6 Comments
The 10 Commandments Of Gaming
7 May, 2013 1:00 PM | Marko Gaming has become such a big part of so many people’s lives that some might even consider it a religion in some way. We worship our legends and we pray [...]
572 Views
5 Comments
Wolf’s Wicked Words: Escaping Reality
7 May, 2013 11:00 AM | Rudolf In a world filled to its bursting seams with dark situations and uncomfortable scenarios, you are bound to reach the pinnacle of being just over ALL of it. Every floating [...]
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No Comments
Quest Updated: Coinage, Robin Hood, Rosebud?
3 May, 2013 11:00 AM | Brendan When it comes down to it, gaming is one of the most expensive forms of entertainment for a single user. Movie tickets may be pretty pricey, and a DVD for [...]
Review: Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
2 May, 2013 8:30 AM | Alessandro There are only so many military shooters you can stomach before something like Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon happens. In this rather lengthy and extremely enjoyable DLC, Ubisoft has accomplished [...]
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9 Comments
May 2013′s Game Releases
2 May, 2013 7:30 AM | Azhar April has come and gone with very little to write home about, in all honesty. I guess the major talking point was Injustice: Gods Among Us, and I suppose mediocrity [...]
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5 Comments
Experience Points: Damn Straight, Games Should Work At Launch
1 May, 2013 11:00 AM | Adam Somewhere along the way, the videogames industry has been bitten, gnawed and zombified into a complete balls-up travesty where gamers are left in a state of horror. Recently, Star Trek, [...]
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5 Comments
6 Games That Will Have A Tough Time Trying To Age
30 Apr, 2013 1:00 PM | Rudolf Since I started gaming, there has always been a wide variety of games out there. Clearly not as much as there are now, but we had our platformers, our racers, [...]
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12 Comments
Abyssal Pixels: Has Gaming Reached A Limit?
30 Apr, 2013 11:00 AM | Marko In the olden days of NES and 8-bit graphics there was always room for improvement. Graphics could be better, different gameplay mechanics could be used and new ideas were always [...]
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4 Comments
Life, The Universe, And Gaming: Core Gamer Retirement
29 Apr, 2013 11:00 AM | Caveshen Or: The Whims And Woes Of A Core Gamer. Why do we hate the ones we love? Why do we treat them with animosity and disdain, then turn around and [...]
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3 Comments
Review: Injustice: Gods Among Us
26 Apr, 2013 2:00 PM | A-G Sonday My recently mended PS3 took strain, the five year old but still quite functional Sixaxis controller in my hands creaked with each furious barrage of button mashing, the plastic casing [...]
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5 Comments
The Fifth Column: Going Hard Core
25 Apr, 2013 11:00 AM | Ebrahim Despite the fact that I own a number of first person shooter games, I have not spent much time playing in deathmatches on Xbox LIVE. This all changed quite dramatically [...]
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Peaception: You Have Done What To My Mother?
24 Apr, 2013 11:00 AM | Peloma Why I Sometimes Hate Online Gaming I try to play online as much as I can, who the hell am I kidding I play almost every day. After a hard [...]
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26 Comments
The Ultimate Zombie Game
23 Apr, 2013 1:00 PM | Marko Zombies in popular culture have had a weird evolution. At first they were just plain old popcorn movie terrors that belonged in a B-grade horror movie, then they somehow got [...]
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5 Comments
The Evil Within Is Great For The Gaming Industry
23 Apr, 2013 12:00 PM | Azhar If you suffer from “too long, didn’t read” syndrome, the video up above covers the content, courtesy of me! Below is if you’re unable to watch or would rather read. It’s [...]
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4 Comments
Wolf’s Wicked Words: A Certain Game Is To Blame…
23 Apr, 2013 11:00 AM | Rudolf I have a confession to make. It is not something I’m proud to admit. I feel sick to my core when just the words even think about entering my mind. [...]
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Quest Updated: The Price Of Failure
19 Apr, 2013 11:00 AM | Brendan One of the most universally obvious elements that set games apart are the fact that you can fail at them. Instead of trying to explain, I’ll let gamer and comedian [...]
48 Views
4 Comments
5 Things That Don’t Really Make Sense In Gaming
Games are not supposed to be realistic as we all know. Sure, some games strive to have a more “realistic” setting and mechanics, but in the end it always comes [...]
Retrospective Look At Games I Was Too Lenient On, And Too Harsh On
I have to be honest and say that it’s not often I feel I was a little off in my verdict of a game. Most of the reviews I’ve done [...]
Wolf’s Wicked Words: Games By Day, Experiences By Night
Tension. It is one of those feelings some gamers adore. We transfer ourselves into these worlds that gaming provides us and we WANT to be hunted. We want to be [...]
Quest Updated: ‘Watergate’ Is Fun, Unfortunately
I spent a few hours earlier this week, between reading academic articles and Moby Dick, playing a browser-based game with a concept that caught my eye. As I often do [...]
Hall Of Fame: Star Wars: Republic Commando
Welcome to the seventh entry in our Hall of Fame feature, which is a feature that comes around when it feels like it. Or rather, when divine intervention occurs and I [...]
Deadpool Is Breaking The Fourth Wall
Deadpool isn’t the type of hero you’d think could star in his own video game. In fact, Deadpool isn’t exactly the hero you’d expect to star anywhere. Why? Well Deadpool [...]
Experience Points: Violent Games Help Us
After reading up on US Vice President Joe Biden’s recent remarks, regarding statements he made that violent games should have some form of sin tax, I was a tad flabbergasted. [...]
Interview: 2K Marin On The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Recently, we, here at eGamer, managed to sit down with Nico Bihary and Alyssa Finley from 2K Marin, and interviewed them about the studio’s upcoming game The Bureau: XCOM Declassified. [...]
5 Games Still Enjoyable On The Most Difficult Setting
In between all the debates regarding politics, economics and pretty much all the things I’m not quite fond of, I’ve wondered about games and their difficulty settings. I do like [...]
Abyssal Pixels: The Good Old Days
I’ve never been one for nostalgia because I didn’t grow up with the games that are now considered nostalgic. If the majority of gamers think nostalgia they think Mario, Zelda, [...]
Life, The Universe, And Gaming: Ludonarrative Dissonance
Or: How Suspension Of Disbelief Is So Nineties. Picture if you will, you’ve just arrived at a predetermined location with your ally in tow. Opting to look around rather than [...]
The Fifth Column: It Is Not The Video Games
It never ceases to amaze me how technology is used as a scapegoat for social ills. When I was in junior school, television was the great one eyed devil that [...]
GRID 2 Focuses On Pure Racing, Bringing Across Each Car’s Personality
GRID 2, the follow on from 2008′s Race Driver: Grid, is scheduled to release on the 31st of May. Developed by Codemasters Racing, the game is an arcade racer which [...]
Peaception: Parents Do Your Job Before Your Child Kills Me
I’m usually laid back with my articles but for this one I’m going to be serious because it’s a subject I feel strongly about, and that’s the negative portrayal of [...]
The 10 Commandments Of Gaming
Gaming has become such a big part of so many people’s lives that some might even consider it a religion in some way. We worship our legends and we pray [...]
Wolf’s Wicked Words: Escaping Reality
In a world filled to its bursting seams with dark situations and uncomfortable scenarios, you are bound to reach the pinnacle of being just over ALL of it. Every floating [...]
Quest Updated: Coinage, Robin Hood, Rosebud?
When it comes down to it, gaming is one of the most expensive forms of entertainment for a single user. Movie tickets may be pretty pricey, and a DVD for [...]
Review: Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
There are only so many military shooters you can stomach before something like Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon happens. In this rather lengthy and extremely enjoyable DLC, Ubisoft has accomplished [...]
May 2013′s Game Releases
April has come and gone with very little to write home about, in all honesty. I guess the major talking point was Injustice: Gods Among Us, and I suppose mediocrity [...]
Experience Points: Damn Straight, Games Should Work At Launch
Somewhere along the way, the videogames industry has been bitten, gnawed and zombified into a complete balls-up travesty where gamers are left in a state of horror. Recently, Star Trek, [...]
6 Games That Will Have A Tough Time Trying To Age
Since I started gaming, there has always been a wide variety of games out there. Clearly not as much as there are now, but we had our platformers, our racers, [...]
Abyssal Pixels: Has Gaming Reached A Limit?
In the olden days of NES and 8-bit graphics there was always room for improvement. Graphics could be better, different gameplay mechanics could be used and new ideas were always [...]
Life, The Universe, And Gaming: Core Gamer Retirement
Or: The Whims And Woes Of A Core Gamer. Why do we hate the ones we love? Why do we treat them with animosity and disdain, then turn around and [...]
Review: Injustice: Gods Among Us
My recently mended PS3 took strain, the five year old but still quite functional Sixaxis controller in my hands creaked with each furious barrage of button mashing, the plastic casing [...]
The Fifth Column: Going Hard Core
Despite the fact that I own a number of first person shooter games, I have not spent much time playing in deathmatches on Xbox LIVE. This all changed quite dramatically [...]
Peaception: You Have Done What To My Mother?
Why I Sometimes Hate Online Gaming I try to play online as much as I can, who the hell am I kidding I play almost every day. After a hard [...]
The Ultimate Zombie Game
Zombies in popular culture have had a weird evolution. At first they were just plain old popcorn movie terrors that belonged in a B-grade horror movie, then they somehow got [...]
The Evil Within Is Great For The Gaming Industry
If you suffer from “too long, didn’t read” syndrome, the video up above covers the content, courtesy of me! Below is if you’re unable to watch or would rather read. It’s [...]
Wolf’s Wicked Words: A Certain Game Is To Blame…
I have a confession to make. It is not something I’m proud to admit. I feel sick to my core when just the words even think about entering my mind. [...]
Quest Updated: The Price Of Failure
One of the most universally obvious elements that set games apart are the fact that you can fail at them. Instead of trying to explain, I’ll let gamer and comedian [...]









