By Nadia Oxford on Feb 4, 2012 in Digital Distribution, PC, PlayStation 3
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The North American shopping experience has extended far beyond our initial options (get in the car, drive to the store). Now we can purchase almost every conceivable item online, and video games are no exception.
But buying a game online isn’t exclusively about going on Amazon.com and purchasing a game that’s already available at retail. When we talk about “digital games,” what’s being referenced is an entirely new breed of video game;...
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By Nadia Oxford on Nov 21, 2011 in Microsoft, Nintendo, PlayStation 3
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Face it: For the video games industry, 2012 is fast approaching. Let us link hands and pray for peace, unity, and harmony amongst the peoples of the world.
Then again, we’ve tried that year after year, and it never seems to yield any sweet fruit. Instead, let’s think very seriously about the best video games that will be coming to our homes through 2012.
Between the launch of the Wii U, the (North American/European) debut of the PlayStation Vita, and...
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By Nadia Oxford on Sep 28, 2011 in Business, Game Design, Game Development
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Interesting things happen when a console race drags on as long as this current era of the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. For the first few years of its life, the PS3 was inaccessible to the average family, because $599 USD is just a heck of a lot of money to spend on a console. The Xbox 360 was the affordable choice, though its inner works are not as powerful as the PS3′s–and there’s the system’s unfortunate habit of buckling like a spent...
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By Scott Steinberg on Sep 26, 2011 in Apple, Business, Casual Games
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It’s finally here!
Four years in the making, we’re proud to announce the release of our latest free video game book, Music Games Rock: Rhythm Gaming’s Greatest Hits of All Time. Downloadable free at www.MusicGamesRock.com, the book is a complete guide to the music and rhythm gaming genre’s past, present and future, and explains the meteoric rise and fall of games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Charting hundreds of the field’s biggest...
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By Nadia Oxford on Sep 9, 2011 in Game Development, Microsoft, Xbox 360
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2007′s Halo 3 for the Xbox 360 challenged us to “Finish the Fight.” And we did. Then 2010′s Halo: Reach said, “C’mon, Fight One More Time.”
None of us were naive enough to believe that Halo 3 would mark the end of the Xbox 360′s most popular exclusive franchise, but maybe a few of us were just a smidge surprised when PAX 2011 not only re-affirmed that Halo 4 is coming, but revealed that a whole new Halo trilogy is on...
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