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17/04/2012 Features
The Games We're Excited About!
There are lots and lots of great games heading your way in the next few months, and here at GAME HQ we're as excited as you lot are to give them a go. So, we went round the digital team with a prodding stick to find out just what games the team here are really itching to play...
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14/12/2011 Features
Games you can't afford to miss from 2011
There's no denying it, we've been spoiled rotten by the flood of quality games this year. There isn't enough time in the day to get through them all! Fortunately, the Christmas holidays are here to give us a little more time to catch up on the best of 2011.
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10/08/2012 Features
Get off the couch - GAME looks at fitness games
The popular image of video games is that of a pastime requiring no more physical effort than a sofa slouch and nimble thumbs. Fitness games fly in the face of that assumption, but they're not the recent invention many think they are...
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25/01/2012 Features
The Rise of Multiplayer Gaming
It's hard to image there was ever a time when we couldn't assume our grimmest war-face, fire up our consoles and do battle with a global army of enemy combatants from the comfort of our armchairs. We're certainly come a long way from sitting hunched over our Commodores, battling as much for keyboard space with our siblings as we were on-screen! But where did it all start?
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07/12/2012 Features
The history of MMORPGs - Where it all began
On December 20th, the Lucas-approved, Bioware-developed online role-player Star Wars: The Old Republic launches, offering the first serious challenge to World of Warcraft's dominance. But where did massively multiplayer online role-playing games (or MMORPGs) come from?
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15/03/2012 Features
Rule of the Dice - The Games That Made Role-Playing Cool
Along with Star Trek, the stat-based fantasies of the RPG form the basis of society's cliched view of 'sad geek stuff'. And yet to look at the games charts today, you'd swear that role-playing was the hottest ticket in town.
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20/09/2011 Features
Gears of War 3 Midnight Launch at Oxford Street
You could feel the excitement in the air as a crowd of die-hard Gears of War fans waited patiently for Gears of War 3, the epic climax in the Xbox exclusive trilogy, to be released.
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14/11/2012 Features
GAME goes to the Call of Duty: Black Ops II Community Event!
to coincide with a week of launch celebrations, Activision staged a special Call of Duty: Black Ops II Community event for the weekend beginning Friday, 9th November. GAME was invited and attended on the Friday night... and we can confirm that the wait for the new instalment has been well worth it.
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02/11/2012 Features
Festive Gaming Getaways
This season's blockbuster crop offers plenty of games with the sort of long term gameplay and enduring appeal needed to keep you sane until January kicks the door in. Here's our pick of the top five festive gaming getaways.
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22/12/2011 Features
Top Download games for your favourite console
With the cold weather setting in, picking up an Xbox Live or PlayStation Network point card would be a great idea for Christmas. With your account topped up and plenty of exciting downloadable titles to choose from, there little need to leave the warmth of your home to access a range of quality gaming experiences. Here, GAME rounds up five of the best digital offerings for Xbox 360 and PS3 players.
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23/11/2011 Features
Kinect for the Core
When Kinect was launched with titles such as Kinect Adventures and Kinect Joyride, some thought Microsoft's new motion control technology had abandoned the hardcore gamer, but all along the developers were thinking about you and below are some of the of their labours.
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22/12/2011 Features
Rolling The Dice: The History of Bioware
This Christmas week sees Bioware release its first online multiplayer RPG, Star Wars: The Old Republic, while next year brings the third (and final?) instalment in their epic sci-fi saga, Mass Effect 3. So how did the Canadian code factory reach the top of the RPG tree?
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29/09/2011 Features
Call of Duty XP Weekend
We attended the Call of Duty XP Weekend in LA. Here are some of the things you could get up to whilst you soaked up that LA sun.
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30/04/2012 Features
Bank Holiday Games!
Here's our handy guide for some of the best games to enjoy this bank holiday weekend, with ideas for children, for friends and family, or for getting some serious single-player gaming done!
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World of Warcraft Cataclysm Launch Event
On 7th December a Cataclysm was unleashed across Azeroth as the latest expansion to monster MMO World of Warcraft arrived on UK shores.
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01/04/2012 Features
The Beat 'Em Up Resurgence
In the years following the turn of the millennium, it seemed like the honeymoon period for fighting games was finally over. But Tekken, SoulCalibur, Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat have all come back for another round...
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22/04/2012 Features
Bring On The Bad Guys!
In celebration of all things vile and villainous, the digital team has once again been gently prodded to share with you our favourite evil-doers. These are the people, who, in the style of Bugsy Malone, are "the very best at being bad"
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03/04/2012 Features
Star Wars - The Galaxy Where Every Kind Of Game Is Played
The motion-based controls of Kinect Star Wars shows just how far the franchise has come since the 8-bit action of The Empire Strikes Back on the Atari 2600 and Intellivision back in 1982. Which got us thinking - over the past 30 years, Star Wars has appeared not only in a great number of games, but in all kinds of game. From side-scrolling adventures, to first-person shooters to flight simulators, there's almost no genre that has not visited that galaxy far, far away...
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14/12/2011 Features
GAME : Essential Xbox 360 games from 2011
2011 was full of big releases for Xbox 360, including sequels to some of this generation's best franchises, high definition remakes of classic games and innovative motion control offerings. Here, GAME rounds up five of the must-own 360 titles that no Xbox 360 owner should be without.
