Video Games
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'Skylanders Giants' bigger in every wayNov 09, 2012 5:00 am - When I was a kid, my favorite toy was the Bag of Animals, an assortment of plastic critters gathered from various discount stores in my neighborhood. It was an unlikely ...
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Master Chief returns in stellar 'Halo 4'Nov 07, 2012 10:00 pm - Microsoft's wildly successful foray into console gaming begins with two words: Halo and Bungie. "Halo: Combat Evolved" and its sequels have been selling Xboxes since th...
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'Assassin's Creed' stumbles on VitaNov 04, 2012 10:00 pm - There's never been a video game heroine quite like Aveline de Grandpre. The daughter of an African slave and a French shipping magnate in New Orleans at the end of the F...
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'Assassin's Creed III' plays patriot gamesOct 31, 2012 11:00 pm - Video games promise to take us to new worlds, but few have lived up to that idea as well as "Assassin's Creed III." Its new world is, well, The New World, and its re-cre...
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Jay-Z scores as 'NBA 2K13' delivers againOct 30, 2012 6:00 am - It's tough to improve a video game that has been so excellent for the past several years, but 2K Sports has found ways to make "NBA 2K13" even better - with some help fr...
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Clever 'XCOM' is chess with plasma riflesOct 23, 2012 6:00 am - Video-game aliens have gotten bigger, uglier and meaner over the years. Think of the Covenant warriors in “Halo” or the Locust Horde in “Gears of War”: huge, dumb, slobb...
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'Fable: The Journey' casts Kinect magicOct 19, 2012 6:00 am - When the Kinect system was unleashed two years ago for the Xbox 360, there were promises that the camera-based, gesture-detecting gadget could turn users' bodies into pa...
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'Dishonored' serves revenge up stealthilyOct 16, 2012 6:00 am - Midway through "Dishonored" I killed someone. I didn't intend to; he spotted me as I was trying to sneak past, and I had to shut him up. But even though I was able to co...
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’League of Legends’ crowns $1 million championsOct 15, 2012 6:32 am - LOS ANGELES — It had all the makings of an Olympic event: an indoor arena, play-by-play announcers, 7,000 enthusiastic fans, uniformed competitors from across the globe ...
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'Resident Evil 6' stumbles brainlesslyOct 09, 2012 6:00 am - "Resident Evil" is a zombie. Once one of the most respected and beloved video-game franchises, it's now a shell of its former self. It lumbers along brainlessly, even th...