Video Games
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Companion apps, open worlds: 5 trends from E3Jun 15, 2013 8:01 am - LOS ANGELES — From companion apps with the power to affect gameplay to racing games where players persistently speed across virtual roads, there’s several innovations on...
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Parker, Stone talk ‘South Park’ game at E3Jun 15, 2013 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES — Trey Parker and Matt Stone have killed Kenny hundreds of times on “South Park,” but the video game based on their popular Comedy Central animated series is...
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'Animal Crossing: New Leaf' charms on 3DSJun 11, 2013 6:00 am - They're whiny, materialistic, gossipy and co-dependent. If they weren't so cute, I would really hate the little animal people who populate Rooty, a seaside village I ina...
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EA's sci-fi shooter 'Fuse' lacks sparkJun 04, 2013 6:00 am - If you discovered an energy source as potent as Fuse — a combination of alien and human technology that promises unlimited power — how would you use it? Would you delive...
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Microsoft touts Xbox One as all-in-1 entertainmentMay 21, 2013 3:28 pm - REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft thinks it has the one. The company unveiled the Xbox One, an entertainment console that promises to be the one system households will need for...
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Improved 'Metro: Last Light' digs deep under MoscowMay 21, 2013 6:00 am - What are you doing after the apocalypse? Video-game creators have been asking that question for years, with results ranging from Bethesda's sublime “Fallout 3” to id Sof...
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'Blood Dragon' a blast of pure '80s mayhemMay 14, 2013 6:00 am - Video games came of age in the 1980s, a decade that was also the heyday of cheesy Hollywood action movies. Thirty years later, you don't have to look hard to see the inf...
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'Star Trek' game sets phasers on dumbMay 07, 2013 6:00 am - “Arena,” a 1967 episode of “Star Trek,” features the original series' most laughable fight scene, an epic duel between Capt. James T. Kirk and a rubbery lizard-man of th...
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Same old problems in new 'Dead Island' gameApr 30, 2013 6:00 am - Zombie stories never have happy endings. So when the heroes of 2011's “Dead Island” made it out alive, you knew there had to be a catch. The catch is that any video game...
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'Defiance' merges video game with TV dramaApr 15, 2013 2:00 pm - What if you could take up swords against the Lannister family on “Game of Thrones”? Or solve mysteries with the “NCIS” crew? Or pitch an ad campaign to Don Draper on “Ma...