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Best Video Games of 2014 (Pt. 2)

While gamers could be forgiven for being a little trepidatious at the prospect of the Walking Dead series continuing without most of its main cast from the first volume, luckily those concerns turned out to be needless. The second season in Telltale’s zombie anthology focuses on Clementine, the most vulnerable of its cast of characters, and uses her vulnerability as the narrative crux of the plot.

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Rinse and Repeat: Making Games the Ubisoft Way

After steadily working your way across the bare map, you’ve finally reached it. You’ve dodged enemies, commandeered vehicles, maybe even taken part in a spot of violence to get here. But you don’t mind the long slog, because you know that in a few minutes you’ll have a fast travel point unlocked. You just need …

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An Open World is the Death of Narrative

Game worlds keep getting bigger. The arenas for our play keep expanding and expanding. As game systems become more powerful and developers are given ever increasing budgets, the future of gaming seems to be the open world. Though they are great achievements, open world games are not necessarily the best kind of game for all …

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Have Free-roaming Sandbox Games Reached Their Pinnacle?

Within the evolution of gaming, there are certain telltale signs that games of a specific genre have reached the pinnacle of their existence and will see minimal improvements from that point on. Oftentimes we can predict when gaming genres will reach this peak simply by looking at how complex the goal of the game is. …

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When PR Stunts Go Bad

Australian publication Ninemsn – a joint venture between Microsoft and Aussie entertainment company Nine – don’t cover video games. They do movies and music, but that’s about as close as they get. So it’s understandable that they were rather mystified when they received a black box delivered to their office, complete with PIN number and …

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