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    Toys R Us CEO: Online Shopping is "Very Ungreen"

    I don't think that's quite true. I would suspect that he is saying this because people don't make impulse purchases online like they would in a store. Generally if you are shopping online you are looking for one thing or you use the search bar. You don't have to walk through isles worth of stuff...
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    EA CEO Wants to "Move Beyond the Alphabet Soup of Game Ratings"

    Mr. Riccitiello I don't think you would have noticed this, but a move towards a universal rating system would result in you not having to pay as much to get your games rated. I suppose this is a happy coincidence, because it's obviously for the benefit of others and not for your company.
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    Update: Torchlight Studio: iPhone MMO Stole Assets "Wholesale"

    Some of the developers at Runic Games are former Wildtangent employees. Also Travis Baldree (President of Runic Games) was also a former employee and worked on Fate. So there is good reason for the similarities between Fate and Torchlight.
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    Gearbox CEO: Duke Nukem Forever Is "Exactly Like Half-Life 2"

    I thought it was more like the first Half-Life only in the sense that it had more jumping puzzles. Also, why bring this back up, surely there isn't any reason to mention DNF again and remind people how bad it was a few months before Borderlands 2 is released. Possibly making them not want a game...
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    Mobile Game Maker Predicts Death of Consoles

    I don't think he realises that Mr. Console and Mr. Tablet don't move in the same circles as one another and the friends that they invite to their parties aren't going to want to go to the other party. To put marketing terms into a poorly worded metaphor.
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    Volition Dev Vs. Pre-Owned Games

    So I can see at least three problems with this idea. The used games market is for those who don't want to /can't pay full price for their games. So you leave them with either waiting a few months (people aren't likely to be this patient) or pirate the game. The second problem is, this is...
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    Play Half-Life 2 for Half-Life 3

    Strangely enough I'm playing through all of the Half-Life games at the moment. I've played through: Source, Opposing Force, Blue Shift, 2, and Episode One, and I'm about ten minutes through Episode Two. So I jumped the gun.
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    Sexist Ad Lands EB Games Australia In Trouble

    If they think this is bad, they should have a look at this GameStop "Sharpen the mind, shape the body" training video. Try watching the whole thing without asking yourself if it's real or not.
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    Noel Gallagher: "Brutal Videogames" A Reason For London Riots

    I like how he said video games once and everyone here is acting like he has just kicked a puppy. But I have to ask, why do media centers keep on getting the public's opinion on matters that they have very little insight into? Yes I know that he owned a store in one of the places people were...
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    Why We Love Zombies

    If you want a quick laugh search "New Zealand Zombie Walk" and check what the money was going towards.
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    Duke Nukem Forever

    Guess what this game is going to be the same as most modern shooters. Looking down the sights, a sprint mode, and I've heard only 2 weapons at a time. Oh and regenerating health. Yeah this isn't a return to form for old style game. Bad GearBox.
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    Boss Fights

    I think boss fights in most games don't make sense. Okay in Doom, Duke Nukem and even Gears of War, the massive bullet absorbing death sponges make sense, but in games that pertain to realism it doesn't work. In both the Assassin's Creed games the bosses near the end take an obscene amount of...
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    E3 2010's biggest dissapointment?

    My biggest disappointment came from the level of excitement that Kevin Butler received. He is an ad man, made to say "You're too stupid to know what you need, so you're going to buy what I tell you to" in a slightly more round about and polite way. Maybe it's because I'm not American and I don't...
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    Poll: Motion controls - Your Opinion?

    I honestly think that Red Steel 2 did a good job with the motion controls on the Wii, but most other games are poorly thought out or take the Microsoft and Sony approach of having the game in a third person perspective so instead of immersing you into the game (which I'm almost certain was the...
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    Zero Punctuation: BioShock 2

    I was wondering how he was forcing that food through an inch thick diving mask.