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Game Music Spotlight: God of War/Mass Effect 3 Composer Cris Velasco
Cris Velasco is a rapidly rising star in the world of video game scores, having composed music for blockbusters like Mass Effect 3, Borderlands 2, and the God of War series. We spoke to Velasco about...
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Here's A Whole New Batch Of Gaming Haiku
It truly is a magical day. Now that you're done with all that stocking/unwrapping/passive-aggressive family stuff, it's time for the good stuff. You know, gaming haiku. Sheesh!I've reduced the past 10...
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2012 RPG of the Year Awards
What defines a role-playing game has become ambiguous over the years. Today, RPGs can involve turn-based fantasy elements, sprawling sci-fi worlds, and third-person gunplay. The lines separating the...
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Discovering Pier Solar
You could be forgiven if you didn’t know much about Pier Solar and the Great Architects, and its unusual history. But with a planned HD release of the classic-style RPG headed to consoles in late 2013,...
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Places: The Halo Ring
One has to dig back several years in time to recall when Halo wasn’t a word inextricably tied to video games. The last decade has seen numerous games in the series rise to the top of the sales charts,...
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Editorial: The Happy Enigma Of Kojima's Phantom Pain
I don’t exactly know what Kojima’s The Phantom Pain is, but I love it because it’s pure Kojima.When The Phantom Pain was announced at the VGAs recently, it didn’t take long for people to theorize that...
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Creating Clementine
This year’s most beloved protagonist isn’t a war hero, assassin, or space marine; she’s an eight-year-old girl. Yes, there’s something about Clementine, and when she stepped onto the screen in...
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Afterwords – 10000000
We gave 10000000 our Mobile Game of the Year award, and I consider it a "near-perfect mobile game." We're big fans here at Game Informer, so we decided to speak with the game's lone developer Luca...
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Editorial: The Joy Of Post-Game Content
Replayability is a big deal to gamers. Not everyone is ready to be done with a game once the credits (and the inevitable sequel-tease afterwards) are finished. Replayability can come in the form of a...
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Reverse-Engineered Fandom: How I Became A Transformers Fan
I grew up thinking Transformers were super stupid. My older brother was into them, but I was too young to figure out the toys’ puzzling transformations and stuck to my Ninja Turtles. Time passed and I...
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2012 Action Game Of The Year Awards
As is usually the case, many of the year's biggest titles were first-person shooters. Despite this, 2012 also saw the release of several fantastic games that fit more snugly under the action umbrella....
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What Will Make You Switch To Blizzard All-Stars?
Players of the MOBA/Dota-alike genre are notoriously defensive about their preferred game’s notional superiority. The entire landscape consisted of a handful of titles for years, but more and more...
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2012 Sports Game of the Year Awards
As we close out this console generation, most sequels are humming comfortably along by making minor adjustments to their base gameplay. Not sports games. While some of the best performing games got by...
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Tracking Video Game Genre Popularity
In the early '90s, platformers like Super Mario Bros. were all the rage, but by the end of the decade that style of game had declined in favor of military/sci-fi shooters. Gaming tastes are constantly...
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Moments: Zaeed’s Loyalty Mission
Years have passed since my trek to Zorya in Mass Effect 2, but I still can’t get Zaeed’s loyalty mission out of my head. I vividly remember dropping my controller, filled with conflicting emotions. Now...
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The Best Achievements And Trophies Of 2012
Whether you love them, hate them, or forget they exist until they pop on your screen and interrupt your game, achievements and trophies have become a (literally) required aspect of all PlayStation 3...
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2012 Shooter Of The Year Awards
With premier titles like Halo 4 and Borderlands 2 garnering headlines and the revenue juggernaut Call of Duty dominating the sales charts once again, the shooter genre turned in an impressive 2012....
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Year In RPGs For 2012
At the end of every year, I find myself looking back on its role-playing games and examining the trends, highlights, and disappointments. Putting it in perspective, 2012 won’t go down as a pinnacle...
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Replay – TimeSplitters 2
This week we take a look at Free Radical Design's TimeSplitter's 2, which boasts many former Rare employees that worked on games like GoldenEye 007 on the N64 among its developers. We were amazed at...
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You Should Be Playing Puzzle & Dragons
It's no office secret that I play a lot of match-three games. I certainly go through my share of so-called hardcore games, but puzzle games are what I reach for when I only have a few minutes to play....
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