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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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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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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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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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06/06/2012 Features
Beam me up - it's Star Trek!
Paramount Pictures and Namco are creating the game that Trekkies have been waiting for. Play as Kirk and Spock in this authentic Star Trek experience.
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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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Features
StarCraft II: Midnight Launch
On Monday 26th July our Oxford Street Store opened its doors to a veritable army of PC gamers for what many are calling the Real Time Strategy event of the century so far - the launch of Blizzard's sci-fi strategy epic StarCraft II.
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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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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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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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Features
History of Gran Turismo Series
Its long been a reason to own a PlayStation console and is considered by many to be the pinnacle of its genre, but Gran Turismo has also caused controversy and met with its fair share of criticism over the years.
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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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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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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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Metal Gear Solid 4 Story and Characters
Just who are The Patriots? It's a question we've been left with since the grand finale of MGS2.
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24/01/2012 Features
Editor's Choice - Resident Evil: Revelations
Mutants, viruses and a nonsensical storyline? It can mean only one thing - Resident Evil is back, this time shrunken and stuffed full of 3D goodness on the Nintendo 3DS. But the questions is, can the series's big scares make the transition to the small screen?
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20/12/2012 Features
The Best of 2012: PC
The past twelve months saw an astonishing run of top quality games for PC, pushing the flexible hardware a PC offers to the absolute limit
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13/12/2012 Features
The Best of 2012: Xbox 360
As another year gallops to a close, we look back at the best games to come to Xbox 360 in 2012.
