Whether it’s because of the brand or its stranglehold on the NFL licenses, EA Sports’ Madden NFL franchise sells extremely well year after year. This year, however, aside from this outrageous commercial, EA Sports didn’t hype it much—which is strange,…
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Microsoft owes an incredible amount of the Xbox’s success to the Halo franchise. It’s hard to tell what the state of the system would be like without it, but Halo clicked with so many that it catapulted the Xbox to…
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by Patrick Mifflin
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01 Aug 2014
A big reason why the rise of indie games has been so celebrated is because of how staunchly they tend to represent the hits of old types of gaming often dismissed by today’s larger publishers (many of which, it should…
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Post-apocalyptic genre isn’t the most uncommon, so making a splash requires a game to do a fair amount of things right. The Metro series was able to do that with Metro 2033 and 2013’s Metro: Last Light. Later this year,…
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by Alex Quevedo
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30 Jul 2014
BioWare is back working on some sequels. Is it Jade Empire? No, still no. However, while a Mass Effect sequel is still in its early stages, Dragon Age: Inquisition looks to be the next big splash from the famed developers….
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If somebody came into your town and froze it over, you’d be a little ticked off, right? I would be, unless it was Elsa from Frozen because come on (that could just be me, though). But in the case of…
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When it comes to the entertainment industry, Disney has always been one of the absolute best when it comes to music. They have some of the most memorable soundtracks and their Fantasia films have proved to be great. Another Fantasia…
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We haven’t made it much of a secret around SmashPad: we’re pretty excited for Sunset Overdrive. It’s one of our most desired games for 2014 and at San Diego Comic Con, I got my hands on a few rounds of…
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by Alex Quevedo
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25 Jul 2014
The Alien franchise hasn’t had the most consistent of gaming results. There have been some shinier spots, but most have hovered around muddled to poor. Alien Isolation, though, has been impressive since its debut trailer released in January 2014.
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by Chris Selogy
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25 Jul 2014
I took a look at the new beta for Destiny to see what’s new with this early version of the new Bungie game.
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With the first half of July upon us, I take a look at the three games available for Games With Gold for Xbox One and Xbox 360 owners until July 15.
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by Patrick Mifflin
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20 Jun 2014
Cultural significance. You don’t really associate those two words with much of anything we write about in gaming journalism. Even as mainstream as gaming has become, most of what we think of as major events in the gaming industry come…
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