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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Dishono(u)red |
| Doctor Glyndwr |
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Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 15:08
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| Reveal: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-03-13-dishonoreds-new-story-based-dlc-the-knife-of-dunwall-revealed Dishonored publisher Bethesda has announced two new story-based add-ons for the game starring antagonist assassin Daud. The Knife of Dunwall arrives first on 16th April for ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PS4 confirmed |
| LewieP |
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 15:28
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Replies: 2597
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| ... alienating small developers with their hellish certification process. Yep, there's also the problem that (with a handful of exceptions) you need a publisher to get on XBLA, and for most indies that means getting Microsoft to publish their game, and Microsoft require exclusivity (either on the whole ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Gaming Magazines |
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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 11:59
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Replies: 1027
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| Mike Gerrard went one better. He didn't review his own game himself - he got the game's publisher to do it instead. That Flimbo's Quest review reeks of a PR release that has been re-written. I don't believe the reviewer ever played the game, or at least the CPC version. ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Gaming Magazines |
| Malc74 |
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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 0:14
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Replies: 1027
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| Mike Gerrard went one better. He didn't review his own game himself - he got the game's publisher to do it instead. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bits And Bobs 38 |
| MaliA |
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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 23:09
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Replies: 2973
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| Yay! Invitation from publisher to attend friend's book launch. Perusal of guest list marks it out as awesome fun times. The pre publication reviews have been very good. Well done him. Tell them you know an amazing author in London, ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bits And Bobs 38 |
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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 23:08
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Replies: 2973
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| Yay! Invitation from publisher to attend friend's book launch. Perusal of guest list marks it out as awesome fun times. The pre publication reviews have been very good. Well done him. Tell them you know an amazing author in London, ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bits And Bobs 38 |
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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 22:25
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Replies: 2973
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| Yay! Invitation from publisher to attend friend's book launch. Perusal of guest list marks it out as awesome fun times. The pre publication reviews have been very good. Well done him. Tell them you know an amazing author in London, ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bits And Bobs 38 |
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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 22:22
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Replies: 2973
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| Yay! Invitation from publisher to attend friend's book launch. Perusal of guest list marks it out as awesome fun times. The pre publication reviews have been very good. Well done him. Tell them you know an amazing author in London, ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bits And Bobs 38 |
| MaliA |
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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 21:26
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Replies: 2973
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| Yay! Invitation from publisher to attend friend's book launch. Perusal of guest list marks it out as awesome fun times. The pre publication reviews have been very good. Well done him. Tell them you know an amazing author in London, ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bits And Bobs 38 |
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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 21:21
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Replies: 2973
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| Yay! Invitation from publisher to attend friend's book launch. Perusal of guest list marks it out as awesome fun times. The pre publication reviews have been very good. Well done him. Tell them you know an amazing author in London, ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bits And Bobs 38 |
| MaliA |
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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 21:16
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Replies: 2973
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| Yay! Invitation from publisher to attend friend's book launch. Perusal of guest list marks it out as awesome fun times. The pre publication reviews have been very good. Well done him. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Next Generation (TM) - speculation, hype and whinging thread |
| KovacsC |
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 22:10
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Replies: 1134
Views: 69073
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| ... there's no difference whatsoever between a brand new console game and a used console game, except the used one is cheaper and the developer/publisher sees no revenue from it whatsoever. The 'owner experience' is identical. When you have stores like GAME selling pre-owned copies of brand ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Next Generation (TM) - speculation, hype and whinging thread |
| Hearthly |
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 18:25
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Replies: 1134
Views: 69073
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| ... there's no difference whatsoever between a brand new console game and a used console game, except the used one is cheaper and the developer/publisher sees no revenue from it whatsoever. The 'owner experience' is identical. When you have stores like GAME selling pre-owned copies of brand ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Next Generation (TM) - speculation, hype and whinging thread |
| MaliA |
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 13:53
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Replies: 1134
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| I don't exist to put money in game publisher's pockets. Actually,I'm fairly not sure what I exist for, but no doubt a higher purpose will be revealed to me at some point in the future. That notwithstanding, they got their money the first time ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bits And Bobs 38 |
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Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 0:16
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Replies: 2973
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| ... game] ...... 63%? From J.Nash? In AP terms, 63% is almost liking it! Mind you looks like CU Amiga gave it 95% which is what you'd expect from the publisher that bought you Sinclair User. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: 150 things the smartest people worry about |
| MaliA |
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 13:13
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Replies: 43
Views: 3312
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| ... surrounded by ecstasy and strife that is open to our influence. Sensible beings that we are, both possibilities should worry us.” Timo Hannay, publisher I prefer to see us as all taking part in someone's game of a mega-lo-mania; increasing our tech levels and fighting wars. However unlike Mega-lo-Mania, ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: 150 things the smartest people worry about |
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 13:04
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Replies: 43
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| ... surrounded by ecstasy and strife that is open to our influence. Sensible beings that we are, both possibilities should worry us.” Timo Hannay, publisher I prefer to see us as all taking part in someone's game of a mega-lo-mania; increasing our tech levels and fighting wars. However unlike Mega-lo-Mania, ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: 150 things the smartest people worry about |
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:20
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Replies: 43
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| ... surrounded by ecstasy and strife that is open to our influence. Sensible beings that we are, both possibilities should worry us.” Timo Hannay, publisher |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Roger Frames Plays Budget Games |
| chinnyhill10 |
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 22:14
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Replies: 45
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| CJ's Elephant Antics Publisher: Codemasters Platform: C64, Spectrum, ST, Amiga and NES (nb ST, Amiga and NES versions not reviewed here) Developer: Genesis (C64) Big Red Software (Spectrum) Price:£3.99 Year: 1991 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/CJ%27s_Elephant_Antics_Coverart.png ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Roger Frames Plays Budget Games |
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 20:39
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| Did you all think (as I did) that Codemasters were the only 8 bit budget publisher still going? Mastertronic doesn't count, it's not the original company. Well....... http://www.alternativesoft.co.uk/about.html I was surprised as well! Wonder ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Elite |
| Zio |
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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 10:53
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Replies: 763
Views: 52543
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| ... coming from more traditional means of financial investment. Getting this amount of money from Kickstarter is a good way of removing reliance on a publisher for funding - they've said that about it all along. Considering Frontier are a fully-fledged game developer in the UK nowadays, I can't see ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Elite |
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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 10:48
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Replies: 763
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| ... jar.JPG David Braben had full creative freedom with Frontier: Elite II. That seemed to work out okay. In fact, it's generally held that it was the publisher's fuckery that caused Frontier First Encounters to be released in such a shocking state. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: The Pinball Arcade |
| Hearthly |
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 13:20
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Replies: 819
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Curiosity wrote: Isn't there a post a few back explaining that their 360 publisher went bankrupt and they have had to sort a new one before they could put new tables out?
I do not remember reading such a post. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: The Pinball Arcade |
| Curiosity |
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 12:03
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Replies: 819
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| Isn't there a post a few back explaining that their 360 publisher went bankrupt and they have had to sort a new one before they could put new tables out? |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: The Pinball Arcade |
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 10:40
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Replies: 819
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| 360 news: FarSight has selected a new publisher for the Xbox 360 version of the Pinball Arcade! We are in the final stages of finalizing the contract. This process has taken months – as game publishing deals often do. With our previous publisher’s ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Steambox: PC-vs-console tedium splinter thread |
| Bamba |
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 14:16
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Replies: 74
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| ... all EA's stuff now. That's a thought actually; the Steambox is almost certainly only going to play stuff that's available through Steam so unless publishers with their own download service (is EA the only one?) think they're missing out on a big enough install base with the Steambox you're cut ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Dead Space 3 |
| Satsuma |
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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2012 12:59
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Replies: 56
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| Contrast this with the interview with Free Radical in GamesTM this month and specifically the change in publisher to, gasp, EA when Timesplitters Future Perfect was released: "Soon after we started working with [EA] it became apparent that they had a very different way ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Dead Space 3 |
| Satsuma |
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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2012 12:53
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Replies: 56
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| Cor, this ain't half irritated me from EDGE: "EA's decision to add another player to DS3 came after research told the publisher that the first two games were too scary for a mass audience. ... EA's marketing head said "People felt far more comfortable playing with someone ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Hitman: Absolution |
| GazChap |
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 22:58
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Replies: 178
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WTB wrote: It has nothing to do with consoles, and everything to do with a publisher who doesn't understand what it is that made Hitman good in the first place.
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Hitman: Absolution |
| WTB |
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 22:39
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Replies: 178
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| ... on 360 identical to the PC version, and that wasn't "dumbed down". It has nothing to do with consoles, and everything to do with a publisher who doesn't understand what it is that made Hitman good in the first place. Just as we feared after that stupid trailer. Well, I say that ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Deus Ex Human Revolution |
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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 10:30
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Replies: 547
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| ... then stick me a room with a guy I have to throw grenades at you twats. The boss fights were farmed out to a different studio, apparently the publisher insisted that there has to be boss fights, and the guys who were making it were all like 'Woah, this is a Deus Ex game, fuck off', and the ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: General Games Industry News and shizz |
| Dimrill |
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 11:49
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Replies: 322
Views: 22977
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| ... fourth quarter releases. It also revealed that a mergers and acquisitions consultant had been hired to discuss other potential strategies. The publisher reported net sales of $107.4 million with a net loss of $21 million for the period ending September 30. It was an earnings drop of £39 million ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Freebiegate |
| Hearthly |
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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 1:03
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Replies: 324
Views: 34153
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| ... Power advance review copies of their games, and that's why Amiga Power ended up reviewing them a month or two late. Amiga Power refused to bow to publisher/PR pressure, and it cost them advance review copies - but they stuck by their principles.) Your first half contradicts the second? How can ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Freebiegate |
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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 0:12
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Replies: 324
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| ... Power advance review copies of their games, and that's why Amiga Power ended up reviewing them a month or two late. Amiga Power refused to bow to publisher/PR pressure, and it cost them advance review copies - but they stuck by their principles.) Your first half contradicts the second? How can ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Freebiegate |
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 22:20
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Replies: 324
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| ... Power advance review copies of their games, and that's why Amiga Power ended up reviewing them a month or two late. Amiga Power refused to bow to publisher/PR pressure, and it cost them advance review copies - but they stuck by their principles.) Where it goes seriously wrong is with the trips, ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Youtube copyright nonsense. |
| CraigGrannell |
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 11:53
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| Even in liner notes, lyrics are officially used by permission of the publisher. Actually, even on official band sites, you're skating on thin ice, despite the band having written the lyrics. I'd say in this case you're shit out of luck. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Boardgame Thread: Let's organise a beexordgame night. |
| Rodafowa |
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Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 8:57
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Replies: 1599
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| ... Of The Mutiverse. I was somewhat less excited to quite badly tear one of the cards due to my own special brand of fat-handed idiocy. I went on the publisher's website and was pleased to find that they sold replacement cards for a very reasonable 50 cents a pop. However, on trying to check out my ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Zardoz! Look! ZombiU is the "Dark Souls" of zombie games |
| Satsuma |
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 12:36
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| ... great. 3DS launch title. I find it slightly worrying that folk possessing vidyergame knowledge such as yourselves are poo-pooing games based on publisher rather than developer. Shadow Wars sort of doesn't count because it was a game long in development, originally for the DS, which got ported ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Zardoz! Look! ZombiU is the "Dark Souls" of zombie games |
| LewieP |
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 11:36
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Replies: 52
Views: 7022
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| ... great. 3DS launch title. I find it slightly worrying that folk possessing vidyergame knowledge such as yourselves are poo-pooing games based on publisher rather than developer. Shadow Wars sort of doesn't count because it was a game long in development, originally for the DS, which got ported ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Zardoz! Look! ZombiU is the "Dark Souls" of zombie games |
| WTB |
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 0:43
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| Ghost Recon Shadow Wars was great. 3DS launch title. I find it slightly worrying that folk possessing vidyergame knowledge such as yourselves are poo-pooing games based on publisher rather than developer. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: New generic book thread |
| MaliA |
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Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 14:46
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Replies: 1039
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bayonetta - "Slutty bride of Satan... |
| LewieP |
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 18:23
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Replies: 420
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From what I can tell, they were making Bayonetta 2 with Sega as the publisher, targeting 360/PS3, but then Sega dropped it someway into development.
Nintendo then offered to publish it, securing it as a Wii U exclusive. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: GO UBI! |
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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 10:40
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Replies: 27
Views: 2087
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| ... DRM. In fact, they quietly scrapped it months ago, but haven’t made that official until now. In what is a really remarkable turnaround, the publisher pledges that from now on they will only require a single online activation after installing, with no activation limits, nor limits on how ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Resident Evil 6 - OUT NOW! |
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 14:17
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Replies: 234
Views: 28363
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| ... undertaking a thorough investigation into reports that Resident Evil 6 is being sold ahead of its official October 2 release date," the publisher told Eurogamer in a statement. "At this time, all we can add is that it would appear this unfortunate incident is limited to a small ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: OnLive streaming PC games: Crysis on any PC? |
| Doctor Glyndwr |
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:04
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Replies: 524
Views: 51798
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| ... way of consuming their back catalogue. If anyone's buying a two to three-year-old game, they're going to be buying it second hand - so the publisher doesn't see any of that money." Mr Pearson added that a "happy side benefit" of the service would be to help curb piracy - ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Dark Souls |
| ElephantBanjoGnome |
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Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 17:59
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Replies: 2917
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| ... they weren't entirely clear about this months before release. Hello! I am a standard computer user, who doesn't do a full background check on the publisher when purchasing games. If a game is £30 and is released on the PC, I expect it to be comensurately playable and decent for that price, and ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Sleeping Dogs - Out next week |
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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 9:25
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Replies: 158
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| This is essentially True Crime 3, isn't it? The first two were dogshit - I wouldn't touch this with yours. If a True Crime game is so bad the publisher drops it, god knows what this abortion is like. When can we poke fun at this? When I buy it and proclaim it to be the best game evar!@@@@!!!!! ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Sleeping Dogs - Out next week |
| WTB |
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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 9:22
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The Last Salmon Man wrote: This is essentially True Crime 3, isn't it? The first two were dogshit - I wouldn't touch this with yours. If a True Crime game is so bad the publisher drops it, god knows what this abortion is like.
When can we poke fun at this? |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Sleeping Dogs - Out next week |
| WTB |
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 22:21
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Replies: 158
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| ... immediately after United Front Games was formed.[14] The game was meant to be a completely original IP called Black Lotus, however Activision (the publisher) decided that the True Crime name would help the game sell, so it then became True Crime: Hong Kong. So it just had the True Crime name tacked ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Sleeping Dogs - Out next week |
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 22:15
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Replies: 158
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| This is essentially True Crime 3, isn't it? The first two were dogshit - I wouldn't touch this with yours. If a True Crime game is so bad the publisher drops it, god knows what this abortion is like. |
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