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2011 In Games: L.A. Noire And The Notepad

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2:00PM December 29, 2011 | Mark Serrels

While game news is light, and we’re reminiscing on a gaming year gone by, I thought I’d take the time to write about the games that defined my year. They weren’t necessarily classics — some I absolutely hated, some I fell head over heels for, but they’re all worth discussing. Today we’re looking at L.A. Noire. More »


PC

L.A. Noire: The Complete Edition Coming To PC On Nov 11

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10:00AM September 30, 2011 | Elly Hart

Those rumours about have turned out to be the real deal: Rockstar is bringing the detective thriller to PC on November 11. I sat down with Rockstar a few weeks ago for some hands-on time with the game in 3D. Let’s just say that if I had known that L.A. Noire would be coming to PC, I wouldn’t have bothered borrowing Mark’s copy for Xbox. More »


In Real Life

Skyrim Fits On One Disc!

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9:30AM August 30, 2011 | Mark Serrels

Post Dead Space 2 and L.A. Noire, which featured two and three DVDs respectively, I had started to wonder if we’d finally hit that phase of the 360s lifespan that I always assumed we’d hit — the disc swapping era. With that in mind, I’d sort of just expected that Skyrim, which looks set to feature a huge amount of content, would be a multi-disc game — but it isn’t! More »


In Real Life

Cole Phelps Flies Off The Handle Again, But He Kinda Has A Point

8:00AM August 1, 2011 | Owen Good

As the phone hacking/police corruption/influence peddling scandal is still an open case in the U.K. but seems to have cooled off in the public eye. Time to send L.A. Noire‘s Cole Phelps back to the scene, to investigate something most everyone shrugged off when it happened. More »


News

Why Excellent Video Game Voice Actors Shouldn’t Be Stars

2:00AM July 16, 2011 | Drew Cohen

I recently asked writer Tom Bissell whether voice actors might ever become celebrities in the video game world. I wondered whether they would ever be featured as headliners who could single-handedly amplify sales and excite major curiosity. More »


In Real Life

Team Bondi: Ex-Employees “Want To See Team Bondi Destroyed”

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9:15AM July 15, 2011 | Mark Serrels

Dave Heironymus is the Lead Gameplay Programmer at Team Bondi and has written a blog over at Gamasutra addressing the concerns raised by IGN’s story on mistreatment of workers at the Aussie studio. According to Heironymus “recent coverage on working conditions has been very one-sided” and he wants to clear some things up. More »


PC

L.A. Noire ‘Isn’t Complete Yet,’ Rockstar Says

1:00AM July 14, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

There is a new L.A. Noire mystery: what comes next for the hit detective game? Something… but its creators won’t say what just yet More »


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L.A. Noire Trapped In The Vile Clutches Of Reefer Madness

3:20AM July 8, 2011 | Mike Fahey

In 1940s Los Angeles, cannabis was not the subject of comedy movies. It was serious business, and Cole Phelps aims to take that business down in Reefer Madness, the next downloadable content case for L.A. Noire. More »


PC

L.A. Noire Coming To PC This Spring

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10:00AM June 24, 2011 | Mark Serrels

Rockstar Games has just announced that L.A. Noire will be releasing on PC, most likely this spring. More »


PC

L.A. Noire Headed To The Computer

1:00AM June 24, 2011 | Brian Crecente

Rockstar’s interactive detective story L.A. Noire is coming to the PC this spring, the publishers said this morning. More »