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Sony Think up New Methods of Addiction Forming

If you’ve ever hired a game overnight because you know it features easy achievements. If you won’t rest until the Platinum trophy is yours. If you prune your Steam friends list according to who you outrank. All these are warnin…

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Sportsman Apologises for Virtual Counterpart's Performance

We’re no strangers to the arts of gluing broken controllers back together and filing fist-through-screen as “manufacturer’s fault” around here, but we rarely write letters to real world people and demand satisfaction of them. M…

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The PS3 Now Lacks Heroes

The last we’d heard of it, Grasshopper’s stand-out Wii production No More Heroes had done its dash and wouldn’t be seeing a threequel, a prequel, or even some NyQuil (one of those doesn’t belong). It was a sad time for …

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Dragon Age 2’s Rise to Power

Phwoar, how about this Dragon Age 2 thing, eh? Looking pretty snappy. Now I’ll admit, I tried to invest myself fully in the first one, I really did, but the abundance of bugs that seemed to strike my party down at every turn …

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Ãœber Review: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II

George Lucas just can’t stop tampering with a good thing, no matter how many times Adam calls him at home in the middle of the night, or how doggedly he scales the fence into Skywalker Ranch. So how does The Force Unleashed II …

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Sitrep: Fear and Loathing in New Vegas

With Fallout: New Vegas squarely in the hands of the game-grubbing public, it was only a matter of time until our resident gun-loving sociopath Toby was able to scribble his thoughts down, huddled frantically in his basement bu…

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Medal of Honor Misfires

At this point, it wouldn’t be totally unfair to say that Medal of Honor has not exactly exceeded expectations – or even reached them, for that matter. Not only has EA’s great white FPS hope been the subject of some very …

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An Invitation to Steam's Ball

The Ball is now available via Steam. What is the ball? I’ve never heard the word ‘ball’ quite so many times in my moderately young life as I have this morning. At first I was tempted to be a bit immature about things, you…

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Champions Online Going Free-to-Play

Perhaps they have the future release of incoming rival DC Universe Online in mind, perhaps Cryptic Studios are just there for you, the ever-swamped MMORPG enthusiast – whatever the case, online hero-centric bicep-fest Champio…

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Back to the Future: The Game?

We’ve got to go back, Marty! Where? Back to June, when developers Telltale picked up the rights to turn hallowed ‘80s cult classic Back to the Future into an episodic adventure game not entirely unlike their modern take on …

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Imagine Rock Band 3

Massive price discrepancies, delayed shipments of PS3 instruments, incongruent local distributors for said hardware and software… what’s shaping up to be a troubled Australian Rock Band 3 launch tomorrow also comes with som…

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Fallout: New Vegas Q&A

Fallout: New Vegas seems to be doing pretty well, if all the glowing reviews are anything to go by. But that doesn’t stop us here at games.on.net from heading a little bit further into the wasteland to find the answers we need,…

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2 Minute Review – Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

Wondering why everyone on the internet is going gaga over Castlevania: Lords of Shadow? Adam was too, which is why we packed him into a coffin filled with his native earth and shipped him off to eastern Europe to track down a c…

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