Video Games
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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...
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'NHL 13' almost makes up for lockoutOct 02, 2012 6:00 am - Most hockey fans would agree that last year's "NHL 12" video game was pretty close to perfect. But that hasn't stopped the producers at EA Sports from trying to improve ...
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Celebrities to play ‘Words With Friends’ for charitySep 29, 2012 7:45 am - LOS ANGELES — Look out, Alec Baldwin. Edward Norton, Jonah Hill, Snoop Dogg and several other stars are slated to play in a celebrity tournament of the popular online ga...
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Shoot, loot and laugh in 'Borderlands 2'Sep 25, 2012 6:00 am - Pandora isn't the kind of place where you want to take a vacation. The weather's either freezing cold or stiflingly hot. The wildlife is aggressively unfriendly, from th...