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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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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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04/03/2011 Reviews
Pokemon Black Version and White Version - Review
Black and White make several small changes to the Pokemon formula that add up, overall, to a significant improvement. The biggest one is a change in the distribution of experience points: monsters now get a far bigger share of EXP when they defeat foes stronger than themselves. This not only evens out the process of building a strong and even team, it makes over-levelling impossible. Grinding - what little there was of it - has been completely eliminated.
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15/11/2012 Reviews
Call of Duty: Black Ops II - Review
It really is the strongest and most surprising Call of Duty game since the first Modern Warfare, and comes highly recommended to both fans and newcomers alike.
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21/12/2011 Features
What has Mario got planned in 2012?
2011 has been a fantastic year for gaming most recognisable face, Nintendo Mario, and 2012 looks set to be another. From platforming to kart racing, tennis, Olympic sports, role playing and party games, the portly yet agile plumber is clearly a highly versatile character who can do it all. Here, GAME takes a look back at a couple of the best Mario games from this year, in case you missed them, and looks ahead to some of 2012 undoubted highlights.
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11/10/2012 Reviews
Pokemon Black Version 2 and White Version 2 - Review
The first direct Pok?on sequels in the role-playing series' history, Black Version 2 and White Version 2 for Nintendo DS represent refinement rather than revolution. Playing them feels like attending a brilliant leaving party, a celebration of all the best things Pok?on has to offer before it sets of on a journey to pastures new
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29/11/2011 News
Nintendo 3DS to introduce 3D video recording in December
Nintendo 3DS owners will be able to use their consoles to make their own 3D movies from next month onwards.
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21/08/2012 News
League play in Black Ops II will bring back teamwork, says Treyarch
David Vonderhaar, game design director on Call of Duty: Black Ops II has explained how he believes the multiplayer changes made to the massively popular online shooter will bring more people into matches, and encourage them to work as teams.
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07/05/2013 News
Star Wars Game License Acquired by EA.
Disney has decided to license out the property to EA for multi-platform console development, while keeping social, online and mobile opportunities for itself
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18/07/2012 Features
Square Enix/3DS Community Day
Heroes of Ruin, Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance compress a lot of great gameplay into small and energetic bundles. And with the imminent arrival of the 3DS XL... well, those bundles aren't quite so small any more. In fact, Square Enix were so keen to show these games off on the larger screen of the 3DS XL that a community event was put together recently in London
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14/12/2011 Features
GAME : 3DS update Round-up
If there one thing the latest generation of consoles has taught us, it that newly purchased gaming systems aren the finished article when you first take them out of their shiny wrapping. Not to say they e lacking anything fundamental, far from it in fact, but system updates now mean it possible for platform holders like Nintendo to dramatically improve a console functionality and boost the user experience post-launch.
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21/09/2012 News
Angry Birds spin-off, Bad Piggies, getting a boxed PC release
Those troll-faced green pigs will be busting out of their phone-screen prison in October when Rovio's Angry Birds spin-off, Bad Piggies, comes to PC in a standalone version. Priced at just ?0, the PC edition will include free DLC level packs, making it even bigger than the iPhone game.
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04/10/2011 News
Disney hails warm critical reception of Cars 2: The Video Game
Disney Interactive Studios has expressed its delight at the level of critical acclaim afforded to its recent movie tie-in Cars 2: The Video Game.
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22/02/2012 Features
A Brief History of Handheld Gaming
This week saw the long-awaited UK release of the PlayStation Vita, the most powerful handheld gaming console ever. Despite a size that fits snugly into your palms, it's a muscular beast of a machine capable of giving its PS3 big brother a run for its money where graphics and processing oomph are concerned. But how did we get here? How did gaming on the go become such a big deal?
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14/09/2012 Reviews
Call of Duty: Black ops II - Hands On at the GAME
We've got plenty of seasoned Call of Duty veterans in the GAME team, and here's what one of the most hardcore thought of his hands-on with Call of Duty: Black Ops II at the annual GAME Conference this week
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25/01/2012 News
Kid Icarus: Uprising to come with special console stand
Nintendo has revealed that the forthcoming Kid Icarus: Uprising will come with a special stand to help support the Nintendo 3DS console.
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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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09/10/2012 News
Preorder Call of Duty Black Ops II to access double XP weekend
Just in case you weren't planning on picking up Call of Duty Black Ops II the very minute it goes on sale, Activision has confirmed that the first weekend - November 16 to 18 - will be a bonanza of double XP for everyone who preordered the game.
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02/10/2012 News
Pokemon is 'just like playing soccer and basketball' says producer
Longtime Pok?on producer Junichi Masuda has explained to Gamasutra why developer Game Freak has kept the core Pok?on series much the same as it was when it launched in 1999. The answer: they see it more as a sport.
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04/11/2011 News
Nintendo 3DS sales reach 6.68 million
Nintendo has expressed hope that sales of its 3DS console are back on track after reaching 6.68 million units at the end of September.
Reviews
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Call of Duty: Black Ops II … (15/11/2012)
It really is the strongest and most surprising Call of Duty game since the first Modern Warfare, and comes highly recommended to b…
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Pokemon Black Version 2 and… (11/10/2012)
The first direct Pok?on sequels in the role-playing series' history, Black Version 2 and White Version 2 for Nintendo DS represent…
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Call of Duty: Black ops II … (14/09/2012)
We've got plenty of seasoned Call of Duty veterans in the GAME team, and here's what one of the most hardcore thought of his hands…
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Pokemon Black Version and W… (04/03/2011)
Black and White make several small changes to the Pokemon formula that add up, overall, to a significant improvement. The biggest …
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