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I dont want to Waggle!!!

As you know, the new “old” e3 is going on this week and as I watch the press conferences and read through all of the information and announcements made by the 3 console makers, I see something that I just don’t like.
WAGGLE!
What is waggle you say? well its the term many use for the Nintendo [...]

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The 1up show is now on Revision 3 as COOP

Now that EGM-1up.com is gone….well 1up.com has been bought by UGO, a lot of the talent and writers have been spread out, some shows (podcasts) have been axed, some have been changed, some of the people that we are use to listening too on the various 1up podcast are off doing other things. One show [...]

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Is better always better?

Weird tittle huh?  Of coarse you have to guess I’m talking about video games again. The reason I ask this question, I had a little observation about 2 similar games. A while back, I talked about Grand Theft Auto IV, questioning if all the perfect review scores it had be getting was justified. Frankly, I [...]

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EGM-Gone. 1up.com-changed hands. End of an era in the gaming press

I was really sad to hear about 1up.com a week or so ago. I’ll be honest, I hardly ever went to the website. For my gaming news I prefer IGN or I just read random gaming items on Digg. There were several 1up Podcast that I listened to religiously. 1up yours, GFW, and 1up fm. [...]

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Fieldrunners, a pretty addictive iPhone app (game)

You know, there are a lot of apps on the iPhone’s app store. Probably over 1000 by now. The problem is this
99% of those apps are worthless!
Yea Ive downloaded a lot of the free apps, bought a few of the paid apps. Other than a handfull of of apps, most of the apps are just [...]

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How far along has MMORPG’s come? Part 3

Ok, here we go again with my MMORPG comparison, If you want to read up and get familiar with what I had been talking about, make sure you check Part 1 and Part 2

Everquest 2 was the next game on EQ comparison list. I have to say, I was really looking forward to this [...]

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How far along has MMORPG’s come? Part 2

Last time I was talking about Everquest and how far MMORPG’s has come since then. If you haven’t read that yet, click here and read that first
Dark Age of Camelot was a game that I really liked but for outside reasons I never got a chance to really sink my teeth into it. I did [...]

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How far along has MMORPG’s come?

Ive been playing Warhammer Online  since it launched and Ive been thinking about MMORPGs in general. Where they were, how far they have came. Thinking about MMOs always bring me back to my first MMO experience, which is of coarse Everquest. Now Ive played a lot of MMOs since Everquest, looking for that one game [...]

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WOW is good for Blizzard, but could it be killing the PC market?

Piracy has been the blame for a lot of PC games selling less units than expected. I do believe Piracy is hurting the PC market, but at the same time, I think some of those predicted big games, such as Crysis, has other problems that kept game sales back. I say this because of my [...]

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Web based FPS gaming for free with Phosphor

Ever heard of a game called Phosphor? Last night, I was just checking out some of the things on the web that I hadn’t had a chance to check out yet and ran across this Web based FPS multiplayer game. Phosphor is that game and get this, it plays in your browser. I was using [...]

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