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In University, The Party Never Stops — For LAN
10:00AM Owen Good | Last week, more than a million users flooded Xbox Live to play Modern Warfare 2. Here’s something just as impressive: In January, nearly 300 gamers will meet in person to play a game released in 2000. More »
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9:00AM David Wildgoose | Patrice Desilets is the charming creative director on Assassin’s Creed II. Despite having worked at Ubisoft Montreal for over ten years now, it is the first sequel he’s ever been involved with. Let’s find out how he decided to follow-up one of this console generation’s best-selling games. More »
What Sort Of Sequel Is Assassin’s Creed II?
9:00AM David Wildgoose | Patrice Desilets is the charming creative director on Assassin’s Creed II. Despite having worked at Ubisoft Montreal for over ten years now, it is the first sequel he’s ever been involved with. Let’s find out how he decided to follow-up one of this console generation’s best-selling games. More »
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2:00AM Brian Crecente | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 isn’t just the biggest video game launch in history, it’s the biggest launch across all forms of entertainment, beating out the likes of Harry Potter books, The Dark Knight and band ‘N Sync. More »
All Out War (Games)
2:00AM Brian Crecente | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 isn’t just the biggest video game launch in history, it’s the biggest launch across all forms of entertainment, beating out the likes of Harry Potter books, The Dark Knight and band ‘N Sync. More »
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Maybe The Greatest Of All Time, But Not In Its Time
4:00AM Owen Good | Of the major game-of-the-year awards given out each year, no sports title has ever taken top overall honours. And yet five years later, there is one still talked about in ways that year’s winners are not. More »
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The Mario Suits That Were, Are And Should Be
1:00AM Luke Plunkett | With New Super Mario Bros. Wii around the corner – a game that introduces yet more suits to Mario’s burgeoning wardrobe – we figured it was a good time to look back, and forward, at some of his sharper outfits. More »
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8:20AM Stephen Totilo | I sat in a blue room on Monday, surrounded by what some more hardcore gamers might call artefacts of absurdity. More »
They Made The Wii Bowling Ball, And They’re Not Done Yet
8:20AM Stephen Totilo | I sat in a blue room on Monday, surrounded by what some more hardcore gamers might call artefacts of absurdity. More »
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Head In The Clouds: Flying In Video Games
7:00AM AJ Glasser | There’s something fantastical about flying in a video game. We can easily run, jump and swim in real life. Flight is more exotic. But we do fantasise about it. Where do you think the term “flights of fancy” comes from? More »
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NCAA Football, And The Science Of Subjectivity
4:00AM Owen Good | With true-to-life fidelity, my most recent season simulation in NCAA Football 10 found Boise State losing a trap game late in the season and, as the token BCS Buster from a minor conference, paying for it dearly in the polls. More »
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10:00AM Brian Crecente | Incensed politicians, angry fans, boycotting retailers: What might be the biggest video game launch in history has more than its share of controversy. More »
Modern Warfare 2 Navigates A Sea Of Second-Guessers
10:00AM Brian Crecente | Incensed politicians, angry fans, boycotting retailers: What might be the biggest video game launch in history has more than its share of controversy. More » 