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GTA IV a 10 across the board?….Really? No I mean really?

I waited in line for the midnight launch of GTA IV. Have been working every since but between the 2 days since Ive received my copy, Ive put about 4 or 5 hours into the game. After playing the game for that amount of time, I honestly have to say that it is a good [...]

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Farewell to GFW, one of my favorite magazines.

I currently have a Games for Windows Magazine subscription, had one for years. Pretty sad day, I happen to break away from my vacation this morning to read GFW is no more. No more as far as a print publication. Yea it looks like the magazine is going away and it Games for windows will [...]

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Will we ever see an MMORPG on a console?

Back on MMORPGs, recently there was news that Microsoft has canceled the once announced Marvel based MMORPG. This particular game was being developed by Cryptic studios, the same dev house that made another super hero MMORPG, City of heroes.  If you remember, back in the original Xbox days, there was a MMORPG in development for [...]

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Was PC gaming ever alive? (Cont…)

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Ive been having a lot of fun with the post I wrote a couple weeks ago, "is PC gaming dead?". I noticed I had a lot to say in my comments in response to a few comments that were made but Jeff from Jeffflowers.com made a short simple comment that made me [...]

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Peggle, a little known PC gaming gem

Back in 2007 I heard about a little game called Peggle that the crew from the PC gamer podcast was going crazy over. They talked about it so much that I had to try it or myself. so I headed over to Popcap and tried out the trial, eventually purchasing the game. Loving every minute [...]

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Is PC gaming dead?

PC GAMING IS DEAD!!!
Well that is what Ive heard several times over the holidays from several different gaming podcast, specifically Shane Bettenhausin of 1up. Why is PC gaming dead? I ask myself. Me personally, I see some troubling things going on when it comes to PC gaming, but I wouldn’t consider it to be dead. [...]

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Do you Doof? Well be a Doof at this gaming, social, community website.

There are a lot of Social networks out there such as Facebook and Mybloglogs. There are even little games you can play on those social networks. Then you have game networks such as Xbox live and Steam that are game focused with some social and community aspects. Doof.com does something a little different than many [...]

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Podcast Crossover, 1up Yours meets Totally Rad Show.

A while ago I created a list of my favorite Podcast and recently I got a little surprise, sortof a combination of the 2 in one podcast. The 1up yours show was my number 2 and is a gaming podcast that deals almost exclusively with console gaming. These guys usually have some interesting and entertaining [...]

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Streaming media to your Xbox 360 just got easier (Fall Update).

Today is the big day for Xbox 360 owners. The coveted Fall update. I got home from work this morning (yea I worked last night) downloaded the update and started playing around with it.  One of the new features is the addition of Divx and Xvid video playback. I mentioned a while ago about how [...]

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PC gaming needs a “Games for Windows”-like initiative

The other day I was having a conversation with a friend, and he said something that I had been thinking lately. He said…
"I give up on PC gaming, Im going to do all my gaming on consoles"
Its not because he thinks consoles are better, its just that games lately have been performing very badly on [...]

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