Articles By: Brian Albert

Why Valve’s Crazy Marketing Is A Good Thing

Even if you’re a jaded hater of Valve’s marketing approach, you’ve lost nothing. In fact, you can only gain from the situation.

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Minecraft is Getting Wolves – Adorable, Deadly Wolves

Markus “Notch” Persson, the creator of Minecraft, has confirmed via his blog that a new mob is indeed coming: Wolves!

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Minecraft Achievements Are a Possibility

In a recent interview, Minecraft developer Markus ‘Notch’ Persson addresses the possibility of making achievements a lot more tangible …

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Bulletstorm DLC Coming This Spring

So, what will you do after finishing Bulletstorm!? Fret not dicktits! EA has you covered. The Gun Sonata pack, which is set to release this spring, will add …

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Ripten Review: Splinter Cell: Conviction

It’s abundantly clear that when Ubisoft Montreal set out to create Splinter Cell: Conviction, they weren’t looking to craft just another Splinter Cell game. Sam Fisher’s latest adventure is such a departure from …

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Cryptic Offers Lifetime Subscriptions to Star Trek Online

Tweet Cryptic Studios, the folks behind the upcoming MMORPG Star Trek Online, are offering some great membership deals exclusively to those who pre-order the game. Naturally, these bargains will expire upon the game’s release date of February 2nd, 2010. A 12-month membership option will be offered for $119.99. This package includes two extra character slots and [...]

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New Forged By Chaos Footage Flexes CryEngine3 Power

Tweet PC Games recently released two new videos showcasing the capabilities of the new CryEngine 3. The biggest surprise of the video reveal? … No jungles! What the video shows instead is roughly five minutes of gameplay footage for the upcoming fantasy online game Forged By Chaos.

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British Hostage Peter Moore Allowed to Use Playstation

Tweet After spending the last two-and-a-half years as a hostage in Iran, British captive Peter Moore will be returning to the UK. He and his four bodyguards were kidnapped in 2007 by an Islamic militia known as the “Shia Resistance.” Soon after being taken into captivity, three of the four bodyguards were killed. What happened to the [...]

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New Dragon Age DLC Arrives January 5th

Tweet On December 29th, Bioware announced the next batch of DLC for the fantasy role-playing game, Dragon Age: Origins. Titled “Return to Ostagar” – the download will be available for Xbox 360 and PC owners on January 5th in North America and Europe. But wait, there’s more!

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Steam Sells Out of Digital Copies of Prey

Tweet As a special treat for PC gamers, Steam has been offering up fantastic game deals. Their holiday sale, which is continuing until January 3rd, is a great way to stock up on some great (and some not so great) games. Unfortunately for the masses of Prey fans, the game sold out. Anyways, I thought [...]

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Gears of War Added to Games on Demand

Tweet Epic’s 2006 masterpiece Gears of War was made available for direct download from the Xbox Live marketplace today. The file is approximately 6 gigabytes in size, and will run you $19.99. It’s nice to see that we have a new addition to the extremely overpriced Games on Demand service. [Source: Major Nelson]

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Modern Warfare 2: Most Pirated Game of 2009

Tweet Remember last year when a few million copies of Spore were pirated and everyone had a fit? Well, stand aside for 2009′s ‘winner’. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for the PC has been torrented approximately 4.1 million times. Add that to the 970,000 illegal downloads for the Xbox 360 version and Infinity Ward is looking at over 5 [...]

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360 Review – Jurassic: The Hunted

Tweet I’m not going to beat around the bush. By most sane reviewer’s standards, Jurassic: The Hunted is not a “good” game. The story is boring and uninspired, the voice work sounds like it came out of a ridiculous B-movie, and the human character models are bland and poorly animated. The campaign is too short [...]

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360 Review – Batman: Arkham Asylum

Tweet Hey, it’s time to create another superhero game! Well, go ahead and bring on the mediocre plot. Oh, and don’t forget the crappy voice work and pointless challenges. Oh yeah, I almost forgot – make sure to completely disregard everything that makes this character unique and interesting. Perfect! Unfortunately for superhero fans, the recipe above [...]

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