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Rockstar Made The Best Trailers Of The Last Gaming Era
16The video game trailer is an interesting phenomenon. It is, at its core, a marketing device — a series of sounds and images, carefully arranged to make you want to buy something.
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Online Passes Treated Every Customer Like A Shoplifter
Every time I bring home a new video game I have this ritual: I take a fish boning knife and slide it under a fold in the shrinkwrap, then twist. Then I try to remove all of the cellophane in one piece, like it’s the world’s biggest peel-and-eat shrimp. If it’s an Xbox 360 game,…
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We Are Still Shooting The Hinges, And It Still Sucks
It’s been three years since, up to our eyeballs in snow, bullet casings and blood, we were reminded to “shoot the hinges”. A seemingly insignificant part of Call of Duty: Black Ops had become, through a video capturing one act of patience, a poster child for all that was wrong – and is still wrong…
