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A couple of weeks ago, I learned that I was going to be part of the Good Old Games (GOG) [http://www.gog.com] beta. Good Old Games is a company dedicated to offering classic PC games at a cheap price, DRM free. Think of it as Steam, but without
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I’ve just finished Valkyrie Profile a couple of days ago, so I might still be biased. I’m also very angry with the game. Or rather, I’m angry at the ending of the game. The game involves you playing Valkyrie, training the newly departed to be warriors for
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If you are unfamiliar with the world of musical videogames, let me first offer this description. Rock Band is a video game available on several consoles (PS3. PS2 and Xbox 360 for now) that allow a group of player (up to 4) to play the role of a rock band.
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Last month, after playing a lot of Guildwars, I was in the mood for something different. So I fired up my copy of Unreal Tournament 2004 [http://store.steampowered.com/app/13230/] and played a whole lot of Onslaught online. I was surprise to see that there are still a
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Although I never though I would buy a next gen console this early. However, EBGames Canada [http://www.ebgames.ca] had an offer I could hardly refuse. If you traded in 10 games (worth at least 8$ in their system), you could buy a Playstation 3 (60 gig) for 400$
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When I played Ragnarok Online, I was surprised by the quality of the online community. After playing Diablo II (which has its fair share of idiots), it’s understandable to be disoriented by a community where people help each other, and with very little swearing. Given that Ragnarok Online requires
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When GuildWars was introduced, it broke the traditional MMO mold by offering a massively multi player experience without any subscriptions. ArenaNet, the developers behind the Guildwars phenomena, announced that they would release a new expansion to the game every 6 months, starting a year after the initial release of the
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On an academic level, I’ve always been impressed by Second Life. It’s a massively multiplayer completely devoid of goals. Players create the content of the game and sell it to other players. Second Life has it’s on economy and players can exchange game currency for real money
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As some of you might already know, I’ve recently graduated and started work. The first thing that surprised me what the dramatic time I had in leisure time. I guess that’s normal and part of growing up. However, this also prompted me to ask another question, how much