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The Top 7… Things we hate about modern gaming

Ah yes, the Week of Hate. Seven rage-filled days of complaints, criticisms and straight-up trollin’ that let us vent our collective frustration on the games industry. In the past, we kicked off each week with a Top 7 that specified a certain aspect of gaming we’re angry with, be it …

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Epics Mike Capps says 99-cent apps are killing mainstream studios

“If there’s anything that’s killing us [in the traditional games business] it’s dollar apps,” admitted Capps in an interview withIndustryGamers, (opens in new tab)continuing, “How do you sell someone a $60 game that’s really worth it … They’re used to 99 cents. As I said, it’s an uncertain time in …

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Island review

Natalie Press (My Summer Of Love) is Nikki, a former tearaway who arrives on a remote Scottish island seeking revenge on the mother who abandoned her. Naturally, things don’t pan out as she planned when she finds her mum (Janet McTeer) and her half-brother (a revelatory Colin Morgan from teatime’s …

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Portal 2 Co-op

Chris, Tyler and Lizzie are joined byPC Gamer (opens in new tab)’s Evan Lahti and Anthony Valva for a SPOILER-FREE look at Portal’s brain-wrenching co-op mode. Get this straight, readers: Several of us in the office have played through Portal 2 several times already. I personally played through myself and …

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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine hands-on preview

Captain Titus and the Space Marines under his command have it rough. They’ve been raised from birth to defend the human race against the oncoming, never-ending swarm of bloodthirsty and warlike Orks. To make matters worse, they’re also being attacked by the devious and powerful followers of the Chaos Gods, …

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Mortal Kombat review

Without a doubt, Mortal Kombat’s heyday was the mid ‘90s, a time when it and Street Fighter ruled not just arcades, but home consoles as well. It enjoyed a brief resurgence in the mid 2000s with sequels like Deadly Alliance and Deception, but with each new game came more goofy …

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