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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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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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Features
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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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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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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17/10/2012 Features
Bigger And Better: Skylanders Giants Will Stomp All Over The Charts
Parents looking for a cost-effective Christmas present are going to be happy with something that is both toy and video game in one, with bonus online content as well.
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07/02/2013 Features
Editor's Choice - Call of Duty: Black Ops II - Revolution
The first batch of Black Ops II DLC, Revolution, features all-new maps, weaponry and a zombie invasion for your Xbox 360
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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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06/10/2011 Features
Running the Scrapyard
We love Scrapyard in Modern Warfare 2, but when faced with the real thing, it was like our wishes had been answered!
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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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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.
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07/10/2011 Features
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Hands-on
We go hands-on with one of this years biggest games multiplayer mode - Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3!
