Video Games
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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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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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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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29/01/2010 Features
New Release Round Up 29th Jan 2010
Four button controls are simple for fight novices to get to grips with, but for advanced masters, Aerial Rave air attacks, Baroque extended combos and Mega Crash defensive moves are designed to bring the pain.
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17/01/2013 Features
New Year Revolutions: The Top Games We're Looking Forward To In 2013
As we begin what promises to be a spectacular year in gaming, here are five games that we can't wait to play in the months ahead.
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02/07/2010 Features
New Release Round Up: 2nd July 2010
This week's new GAME releases see you keeping the peace or causing mayhem, searching for treasure, battling with mythological warriors, and competing for one of sport greatest prizes.
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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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22/01/2010 Features
New Release Round Up 22nd Jan 2010
The New Year brings new gaming excitement this week: an entirely new action-adventure game with a new and innovative control system. This week also sees two classic
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18/05/2010 Features
Popcorn and Joysticks - GAME goes to the movies!
With Prince of Persia returning to consoles in the very same month the Hollywood version hits the big screen, what better excuse to look back at how others have fared when games and films overlap?
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05/01/2012 Features
Editor's Choice Boom Street
While the real world economies wobble and worry over their lack of wonga, Boom Street on the Wii shows that the virtual economy at least is alive and kicking thanks to this characterful spin on a classic board game...
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08/12/2011 Features
Games for the kids
GAME rounds up a selection of the best portable titles to keep youngsters entertained and out of trouble.
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25/06/2010 Features
New Release Round up: 25th June 2010
This week's new GAME releases see you time shifting, demon slaying, spell casting, bone crunching and shape shifting.
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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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Features
Resident Evil: The Story
Ten long years since The Mansion Incident. Since members of Raccoon City's Special Tactics And Rescue Service were betrayed by their commander Albert Wesker, defeated the ultimate bioweapon, the Tyrant, and escaped Umbrella's secret underground labs.
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12/02/2010 Features
New Release Round Up: 12th Feb 2010
Full of adventure, full of surprises, full of danger; this week's new releases feature ruined and dangerous landscapes ready to explore, plus a few more light hearted living room activities too
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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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22/05/2009 Features
EA Sports Active Explained
Nowadays videogames have stepped out of the shadows and are all about self-improvement. Today games are drawing mums to the d-pad with their promises of increased brainpower or language skills and now, with EA's Sports Active, fitness and slender tums.
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05/10/2012 Features
GAME goes to the Eurogamer Expo
Last week, the GAME online team took a trip to the Eurogamer Expo in London's Earls Court to get our many hands-on some of the top games that we'll all be playing over the coming months.
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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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24/12/2010 Features
Christmas Round-Up - 24th December 2010
Was there ever any doubt that Activision Blizzard's Call of Duty: Black Ops would be this year's Christmas number one?
