Video Games
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Glitches bog down otherwise intriguing 'Dead Island'Sep 13, 2011 5:45 am - What's more relentless than zombies? Video games about zombies. They've been good ("Resident Evil") and bad ("Rock of the Dead"). There are serious games like "Left 4 D...
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Solid 'Madden NFL 12' a minor step forwardSep 01, 2011 5:45 am - Last year's "Madden NFL 11" was a great football game, packing enough new features and improvements for fans of earlier EA Sports versions to justify shelling out more c...
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Man meets machine in thrilling 'Deus Ex'Aug 30, 2011 6:00 am - If you could replace any part of your body with a more powerful mechanical substitute, where would you start? Do you get new legs that let you jump higher and run faster...
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Suburban man describes video-game addictionAug 28, 2011 6:00 am - SARASOTA, Fla. — At the height of what he calls his addiction, Ryan Van Cleave would stand in the grocery store checkout line with his milk and bread and baby food for h...
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Pretty 'El Shaddai' aims high but stumblesAug 23, 2011 6:00 am - This has been the summer of the bizarre Japanese video games. Since June, we've been treated to the hallucinatory “Child of Eden,” the gruesome “Shadows of the Damned” a...
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‘Rift’ pulls 1 million gamers onlineAug 20, 2011 6:15 am - A million Internet users have flocked to the fantasy world of “Rift” since its March release, in a trend that threatens games consoles such as Sony Corp.’s PlayStation a...
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`Wizard 101’ heads to ChinaAug 20, 2011 6:00 am - NEW YORK — Online game company KingsIsle Entertainment is bringing its popular “Wizard 101” game to China in a deal with Taomee Holdings Ltd. “Wizard 101” is a multiplay...
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'NCAA Football 12' offers major improvementsAug 15, 2011 3:00 pm - Saturdays in the fall just wouldn't be Saturdays without college football on TV, but fortunately for us video-game system owners there's an alternative to watching a Tue...
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'Captain' game a weak shadow of the heroAug 12, 2011 12:00 am - Pegged to the release of the blockbuster film, "Captain America: Super Soldier" launches you right into combat with the baddies. They're easily defeated. The attack com...
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PlayStation Vita won’t be here by ChristmasAug 04, 2011 12:00 am - TOKYO — Sony’s next-generation portable game machine, the PlayStation Vita, won’t be going on sale in the U.S. or Europe in time for the key Christmas shopping season. E...