Having pre-purchased Guild Wars 2 some time in the last months (and having playing during the second beta weekend) I was eager to dive headfirst into the new content that the third beta weekend provided, namely the asura ¹ and the sylvari ².

As I have been waiting to play …

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the digital business

James Brightman about the NPD’s response to EA:

“While digital is a growing part of the industry and something that needs to be addressed for the future, the current games industry is still largely rooted in retail and any industry player involved with AAA content simply …

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I just watched the presentation of The Secret World at GDC 2012 in its full length and there are several topics I’d like to address before heading back to other matters. In this article I’ll be using the shortened TSW when referring to the game.

User interfaces

If …

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You might have noticed that I’ve mentioned TERA Online in the past. To be more precise I wanted to playtest it for a longer time after immediately liking the visual style and some of the gameplay mechanics at Gamescom 2011. I received a key for the closed beta last …

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Warning: Contains plot details for Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3. Stop reading if you want to enjoy those games without prior knowledge.

Ending the fun

By now you might’ve seen that everybody and their mum complain about ME3’s ending. That it didn’t reveal enough details …

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Please, let me demonstrate a part of the wrongness of Mass Effect Datapad for iOS. ¹

1. The iPad screen is huge and you are still unable to get 10 updates in there without having the user scroll? This is ridiculous. I’m reminded of Krystian’s commentary on Mass Effect …

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The estimated length of a game is something that can often tell you certain things about the genre of a game, at least that convention was true in the past. In the good old times of the Playstation 1 the content length could also be estimated by the amount of …

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When I am craving content and narration I’m a very impatient man. I don’t have time for battles in video games that don’t serve to strenghten the plot and I don’t want to wait for an event to start or for a slot on a server …

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Ubisoft about the new single player DLC for Assassin’s Creed: Revelations:

Explore the mysterious pasts of Subject 16 and Lucy Stillman in 2 hours of all-new single player content, using the innovative narration style and puzzle-platforming gameplay pioneered in Assassin’s Creed Revelations’ present-day Desmond sequences.

Considering that the …

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TRAUMA. Right now my mind is racing to find an acceptable excuse why I’ve put off writing about this game for this long a time. ¹

I first came across TRAUMA after having subscribed to the blog gamedesignreviews because I thought that Krystian Majewski’s trilogy about the shortcomings …

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