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COLUMN: 'The Aberrant Gamer' - What Your Dating Sim Choices Say About You

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2008-10-05 16:00:32 by Leigh Alexander in GameSetWatch
...lifelong mate and there are quite a few games that let us evaluate, elect and consummate our decision of partner. Not only are PC dating sims (sexual or otherwise) a surprisingly broad genre, numerous adventure games have incorporated pair-up mechanics for their protagonists Dating sim mechanics really shine when theyre used to enhance the...
 
Tags: alongside, sim elements alongside, characters, female characters enjoy, archetypes, repetitive archetypes, type, game, rhythm game
 
 
 
 
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Analysis: The Evolution Of Maxis' Spore

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2008-06-12 16:00:00 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...lifelong devotees of the medium It also sounds potentially overwhelming for those who are not lifelong devotees of the medium, and the team struggled with that issue during development, eventually choosing to err on the side of caution and provide plenty of hand-holding along the way Johnson then successfully pushed hard for a three-tier AI...
 
Tags: spore creature creator, creature, spore, creature creator, game, regular game, game palatable, actual game, creator
 
 
 
 
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E3 2008: The top 5 things I learned from the Nintendo press conference

2008-07-17 10:45:05 by davidlaprad in Adrenaline Vault
 
...lifelong, hardcore Nintendo fan boy After taking a little drive (I wasnt depressed; I had errands to run), my brain started to settle down and I began to process it all. We know those titles are out there and coming. Nintendo knows they can disseminate news of a new adventure for Link in any forum and the hardcore will find it and spread it...
 
Tags: wii sports resort, wii sports, nintendo, music, beautiful music, wii music, wii, press conference, conference
 
 
 
 
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Forum Watch (July 22 - July 29, 2008)

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2008-07-29 20:02:19 by Snafzg in The Greenskin
...lifelong dream of being in the closed beta came true! (Wait did he say lifelong?) All thanks to a phantasmagorical guildie of mine Sloug, and his attempt at a 100% entrance rate in beta by buying five Boom! Comics, lucky for me, you can only add one code to your account! Hehehe. Anyways, enough of my rubbing it in. Its time for this weeks...
 
Tags: war handle, war, forum, beta, war-rvr, beta rapidly approaches, time, only-war, warhammer conflict
 
 
 
 
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Achievement Point Game of the Month

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2007-10-24 19:53:00 by Terry "coloradojoe" Terrones in As the Gaming World Turns
...lifelong Red Sox fan, I'd love to go to a World Series game but after checking out what the prices are online I'm priced right out of it Back to my original point. One of the greatest things about the 360 are Achievement Points, rewards for working your way through a game. For some games (like the FIFA series) the points are tough to get....
 
Tags: game, world series game, world series, nepal complete, complete, tokyo complete, game play, play, achievement
 
 
 
 
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Videogames & Futurama, Part 5: Bender Gets Medieval On The Third DVD

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2007-12-21 00:01:00 by Chris Baker in Game | Life
...lifelong love of tabletop role-playing games. After waxing nostalgic about his elf fighter/magic user named Sho-Rembo, he notes that I'm probably one of the only people on planet Earth, outside of the gaming industry, to have actually used my knowledge of D&D on the job -- and not gotten fired. In the writers' room at Futurama , our shelf of...
 
Tags: futurama, videogame-like virtual world, world, game, full-blown fantasy world, dvd, futurama co-creator, occasional game, futurama history
 
 
 
 
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Their First Time Video Game Luminaries Share Their First Gaming Memories

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2008-01-14 13:55:38 by Stephen Totilo in MTV Multiplayer
...lifelong obsessions with video games begin. Then tell me, whats your first memory of playing a video game Brian Allgeier, Creative Director, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction First Gaming Memory : I was about nine years old and my family was vacationing in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. We were at a hotel and my brother had just run full...
 
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GDC: Blow's Ten New Challenges For Game Design

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2008-02-23 19:29:16 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...lifelong pursuit that hones you as a person and can give you a new way of seeing the universe and being inside it," continued Blow. He doesn't claim to have mastered game design, but enjoys thinking about it this way. "When I look at certain things, I build corellation," he explained There are similarities and there are differences... and I...
 
Tags: game design, game, game design sufficiently, games, hone games, industry, industry address, persuasive games, meaningful artistic expression
 
 
 
 
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THQ Creative Director Blames Piracy for Iron Lore Closure

2008-03-05 18:48:36 by Rajiv Ashrafi in DigitalBattle
 
...lifelong PC gamer, and hope to continue to work on PC games in the future, but man, they sure dont make it easy, he concluded Related Posts Titan Quest Developer Closes The Iron Lore Entertainment website carries word that the studio is closing down after failing to se Rights to Iron Man Now With Sega Sega has announced today that they now...
 
Tags: iron, game, piracy, game reviewers, entertainment, iron lore entertainment, wii game, hardware vendors, hardware