17 Nov

The Top Ten Bad-Asses of Gaming

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by Ravi Sinha
Save the princess? Avert/destroy a disastrous evil? Cold cuts in the long term. Sure, most heroes would jump (some literally) at the prospect of flitting from castle to castle in search of their fair ladies. Following any romantic thread, even if it allows certain extra concessions - witnessing the birth of the useless [...]

13 Nov

How to Make Gears 3 Better than Gears 2

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by Ravi Sinha
The hype has died down. The critics have answered. Copies sold have numbered in the millions. Has Gears of War 2 lived up to the expectations of its fans? Not an easy question to answer. After all, for every moment of the original Gears faithfully carried over, the needling feeling of some thing [...]

10 Nov

Why you can’t trust User reviews

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by Ravi Sinha
If you’re an Xbox 360 fan, you must have been flummoxed to discover Gears of Wars 2 rated a measly 6.1 in reader scores on Metacritic. If you’re a PS3 fan, you may have been equally bamboozled to discover LittleBigPlanet rated a wimpy 6.2 in reader scores on the same site. If you’re [...]

4 Nov

The Great Gaming Depression of 2008

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by Ravi Sinha
In the past, whenever a developer folded, its members swiftly found work in other studios. While the small fry came and went, the big guys like EA and Microsoft persevered and eventually thrived. But if this isn’t the year of the gaming depression, nothing is. Respected journalists are resigning, media corps are going [...]

31 Oct

Is Sony better with franchises than Microsoft?

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by Ravi Sinha
LittleBigPlanet 2 is already on the production belt, joining both a cartoon show and a comic book, aimed at fully expanding the LBP franchise. With PSM3 awarding it a 97%, their highest rating ever (yes, even more than MGS4) and the whole world just plain spell-bound over the new Sackboy on the block, [...]

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