Video Games
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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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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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09/02/2012 Features
Games With Girls
Games. Girls. Historically they've not really been words you put together, at least not in a positive way. But things are changing. Female characters are stronger, bolder, more prominent and, most importantly, playable. This is our run-down of some of the best and brightest girls in gaming today.
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10/04/2012 Features
PlayStation 3 - The Essential Games
So, you've got yourself a shiny new PlayStation 3. You know all about its fantastic online features, like PlayStation Network, BBC iPlayer, 4OD and more. You know about its awesome graphics and Blu-Ray player. What you really need to know is - what games should I get? Well, help is here! We've taken on the hard work and come up with our PS3 Essentials List - the 'hot half-dozen' you really need to get your game collection going.
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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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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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19/01/2012 Features
New Year Revolutions: The games of 2012 that we want to play now
Towards the end of last year, we saw veritable avalanche of amazing games roll over us, leaving us swamped but happy with top-notch titles. Surely that's more than enough new games to leave even the greediest gamer feeling stuffed and satisfied?
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17/11/2011 Features
Final Fantasy XIII-2 VIP Community Event
We were lucky enough to be invited the Final Fantasy XIII-2 community event in London, and we were more than happy to attend! An afternoon hosted by Yoshinori Kitase, with a hundred odd fellow Final Fantasy fans, in a swish London cinema, yes please!
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17/04/2012 Features
Xbox 360 - The Essential Games
Thanks to our wonderful customers who entered our recent Facebook competition, we can now recommend the top Xbox 360 games you need to get going, and our competition winners will tell you why!
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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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08/01/2010 Features
New Release Round Up: 8th Jan 2010
Two amazing titles start the gaming calendar off with a big bang. This week's all about supersized action gigantic setpieces, huge and epic combat.
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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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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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05/02/2010 Features
New Release Round Up 5th Feb 2010
This week big games let you become a hero; defying danger and death (quite literally in one case!), surviving a nuclear wasteland, exploring the galaxy, saving the princess, or even becoming one! Which will you go for?
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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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Features
Dante's Inferno History
In 1310, an Italian called Dante published an epic poetic story called the Divine Comedy.
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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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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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24/12/2012 Features
Editor's Choice - Best Downloads Of 2012
It's been an astonishing year for downloads with a raft of low-priced, mainly indie games that have packed more punch than most triple-A titles. If for some reason you don't think that downloadables can match their boxed brethren, then check out what you've missed and start kicking yourself. Or make it easy on your foot and get downloading instead...
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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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