Hardware
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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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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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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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21/02/2012 Features
Editor's Choice - Army Corps of Hell
Attention PlayStation Vita owners! Consider putting the lush, sun-kissed jungles of Uncharted: Golden Abyss down for a week; instead plunge headfirst into Hades in Army Corps Of Hell!
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22/02/2012 Features
PlayStation Vita Midnight Launch at GAME Oxford Street
On February 22nd SONY's new handheld, the PlayStation Vita, arrived in Europe after months of speculation and anticipation, and gamers flocked to GAME Oxford Street for our Midnight Launch, clearly unable to wait any longer to get their hands on the PS Vita!
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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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20/09/2011 Features
Gears of War 3 Midnight Launch at Oxford Street
You could feel the excitement in the air as a crowd of die-hard Gears of War fans waited patiently for Gears of War 3, the epic climax in the Xbox exclusive trilogy, to be released.
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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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Features
Halo History
Halo: Reach may not be the final Halo title, but it's the last game from Bungie Studios, the visionary developers who created the series.
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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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23/11/2011 Features
Kinect for the Core
When Kinect was launched with titles such as Kinect Adventures and Kinect Joyride, some thought Microsoft's new motion control technology had abandoned the hardcore gamer, but all along the developers were thinking about you and below are some of the of their labours.
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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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Features
Buyer's Guide: Nintendo DS Lite
DS Lite is fantastic for the younger gamer - the ideal first console.
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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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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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21/06/2012 Features
Editor's Choice - Best of Wii U at E3
More details were revealed at this year's E3 about the innovative Wii U package - that revised GamePad, those, err, 'asymmetric gameplay' opportunities - but really all we wanted to know was were its games looking any good?
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01/02/2012 Features
PlayStation Vita Day at GAME
As you may know from our Twitter, Facebook and YouTube posts, SONY have been nice enough to let us try out a shiny new PlayStation Vita. Well, last Friday SONY rocked up to GAME HQ with cases more of them for us to play with, so that we're ready to help you when the PS Vita goes on sale on 22nd February. While we were having fun, we thought we'd share with you some of our first-hand experiences of this nifty new handheld.
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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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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.
