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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Call of Duty 12 : Black Ops 3 |
| TheCookie197 |
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 3:51
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Replies: 231
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| So looking forward to Blops1 working on the Xbox One. Because the publisher of a yearly franchise is certainly going to want a fairly old entry in the franchise to be available for free to customers on the new platform... Black Ops 1 is the ONLY one that ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Call of Duty 12 : Black Ops 3 |
| Bamba |
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 0:52
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Replies: 231
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Cookie197 wrote: So looking forward to Blops1 working on the Xbox One.
Because the publisher of a yearly franchise is certainly going to want a fairly old entry in the franchise to be available for free to customers on the new platform... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Call of Duty 12 : Black Ops 3 |
| zaphod79 |
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Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 10:58
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Replies: 231
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| ... Activision Publishing today announced that Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 sold through more than $550 million in its three-day opening weekend. The publisher said that total bests the last two years' installments of the series, Call of Duty: Ghosts and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, but it's tough ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Fallout 4 |
| myp |
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Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2015 16:02
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Replies: 917
Views: 63536
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| ... bonuses for making a 'good' game. I would prefer it was done on sales, tbh. It's not a brilliant barometer either, but at least that way the publisher is making enough money that paying out those bonuses isn't a problem. Metacritic is arse. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Call of Duty 12 : Black Ops 3 |
| Satsuma |
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Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2015 11:25
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Replies: 231
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| The reviews are out and it's time to play "Who doesn't want to upset the publisher!" EGM – 9.5 GameTrailers – 9.2 GameInformer – 9 PlayStation Lifestyle – 9 Ausgamers – 8.8 Destructoid – 8.5 SixthAxis – 8 GamesRadar – 4/5 The Escapist – 4/5 Polygon – ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: iOS gaming thread |
| Grim... |
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 8:27
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Replies: 1370
Views: 162490
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| Blaming the publisher for this seems somewhat backward to me. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: iOS gaming thread |
| zaphod79 |
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 21:17
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Replies: 1370
Views: 162490
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| ... the App Store with loud complaints. Can you blame them? It’s complicated, though. Given the way iOS games break, year over year, this presents publishers with a problem not present on other platforms. I don’t know how much money Monster Hunter Freedom Unite is (or isn’t) making for Capcom. ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Finish 52 Challenge 2015 |
| Mr Russell |
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Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 9:01
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Replies: 588
Views: 54733
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| ... glad I'm not the only one that enjoys those as a guilty pleasure. Sorting the good from the bad is definitely a challenge though given that each publisher puts out stuff of wildly varying quality from different developers. On the Android side of the fence though every one of them's available ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Finish 52 Challenge 2015 |
| Bamba |
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Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 18:57
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Replies: 588
Views: 54733
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| ... glad I'm not the only one that enjoys those as a guilty pleasure. Sorting the good from the bad is definitely a challenge though given that each publisher puts out stuff of wildly varying quality from different developers. On the Android side of the fence though every one of them's available ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Political Banter and Debate Thread |
| ElephantBanjoGnome |
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 13:32
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Replies: 14361
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| Certainly nothing so flagrantly defamatory and easy to sue for if indeed it's made up, Gnomes. The publisher would never have gone ahead with that if they weren't quite happy they'd eb able to defend it in court. Also, come on chap, given the amount you'll do stuff like ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Political Banter and Debate Thread |
| MrChris |
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 13:22
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Replies: 14361
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| Certainly nothing so flagrantly defamatory and easy to sue for if indeed it's made up, Gnomes. The publisher would never have gone ahead with that if they weren't quite happy they'd eb able to defend it in court. Also, come on chap, given the amount you'll do stuff like ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Tomb Raider |
| zaphod79 |
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Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2015 20:40
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Replies: 294
Views: 39436
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| ... which was initially announced as an Xbox platform exclusive last August. Turns out that said exclusivity was on a timer, but neither Microsoft or publisher Square Enix has mentioned when that period would be over. That news finally came down the pike today: Square Enix today announced its latest ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Boardgame Thread: Let's organise a beexordgame night. |
| sdg |
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 8:16
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Replies: 1599
Views: 269940
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| ... there is a game out called Discworld Ankh Morpork that is rated 7.2/10 on bgg and receives lots of great reviews. Since Sir Terry's death, the publisher hasn't been able to renew the licence and so the game is going to go out of print. It may be renewed at a later date but currently, the copies ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: E3 2015 |
| lasermink |
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Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 17:38
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Replies: 86
Views: 5126
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| ... a studio to back him. EDIT - And his own studio and/or himself didn't have to cash to try it. I think that's it anyway. It's about convincing a publisher to fund development while letting you make the game the way you want to do it. David Braben couldn't do it with Elite and Brian Fargo couldn't ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Mirrors Edge 2 |
| Mr Dave |
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Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 9:31
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Replies: 135
Views: 15121
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Grim... wrote: You’d have done that yourself in the first one if you were smart.
I did do that in the first one.
But you can see the typical Publisher logic - Game didn't do as well as we hoped, therefore MORE GUNS. Everyone loves guns. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bloodborne - From Software - PS4 |
| zaphod79 |
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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 16:00
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Replies: 657
Views: 55224
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| ... that from happening, but not here. “FROM absolutely do not accept compromise on their work,” Yamagi says, when I ask if it’s difficult as a publisher to work with such perfectionism. “A lot of people, if they get to 90% of the perfect product, they’d let that go, even if there were little ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Titanfall Xbox One / 360 / PC + others ? |
| zaphod79 |
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Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 11:19
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Replies: 191
Views: 13534
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| ... 2014, would be a multiplatform game. Also during the call, Jorgensen laid out EA's long-term vision for first-person shooter games, saying the publisher hopes to deliver at least one new FPS every year. This year it will be Battlefield Hardline and Star Wars: Battlefront. Next year it will ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: The Movie topic |
| Pundabaya |
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 15:46
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Replies: 21130
Views: 2130085
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| ... Ventura. He then came out and stated it was Jesse Ventura. Then Jesse sued him/his estate into the ground, and is in the process of suing his publisher into the ground. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: No means no, Yes means no? Silence means no? |
| ElephantBanjoGnome |
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 11:20
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Replies: 38
Views: 2879
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| ... down to the fact that he was making a truckload of dosh from previous videos, his card game, and a new book about the london tube he'd secured a publisher for. Today this video pops up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqfWxwCMYKA vqfWxwCMYKA Where it transpires his silence of many months is down ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PC gaming hardware thread. |
| lasermink |
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 15:18
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Replies: 5932
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| ... of VRAM to play The Evil Within on PC . If you want to play Shinji Mikami's new horror game The Evil Within on PC, you should have 4GB of VRAM, publisher Bethesda has warned. Overnight Bethesda published the recommended PC specifications to its BethBlog. They're listed as recommended - there ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Reading comics on tablets |
| zaphod79 |
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Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 20:28
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Replies: 115
Views: 15704
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| ... Hot off of 16 nominations from this year's Harvey Awards, discover the world of Valiant Comics - the award-winning, best-selling comic book publisher of the year - right here with the Humble Valiant Bundle. Name your price and receive the first two volumes of X-O Manowar, Archer & Armstrong, ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Tomb Raider |
| LewieP |
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 17:43
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Replies: 294
Views: 39436
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| ... to port up these days too. The PC market is really robust, so you want to be doing a PC version. Cross platform just makes most sense from a publisher's perspective. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: B&B 43 |
| myp |
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Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 17:20
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Replies: 2972
Views: 99807
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TheVision wrote: I've been very bored today. That bored that I've started to add developer and publisher columns to my spreadsheet.
You're an absolute amateur for not having those in the first place. Next you'll be telling me you don't have a serial number column either! |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: B&B 43 |
| TheVision |
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Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 15:53
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Replies: 2972
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| I've been very bored today. That bored that I've started to add developer and publisher columns to my spreadsheet. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bargains, Bargains, Bargains! |
| zaphod79 |
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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 6:45
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Replies: 8561
Views: 1071845
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| ... Dynamite goes Humble Bundle with biggest comics bundle ever The entire comics industry wants to go humble! Humble Bundle that is! Yet another publisher has signed up for this service which allows readers to pay what they wish to download a bunch of ebooks, while supporting charity, This time ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Steam |
| Pod |
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 12:20
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Replies: 251
Views: 35396
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| ... 3GB game :/ And there was something messed up with the expansions, so all 3 would download. I imagine whichever content server supported that publisher doing COH just got hammered every time they put out a patch. ps: Dimrill broke my steam. He sent an offline trade request and before I could ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Watch Dogs |
| RuySan |
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 12:11
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Replies: 36
Views: 6255
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Bobbyaro wrote: I see 7/10 to be, "as good as [AAA title], but the publisher didn't pay as much money."
I always see a 7/10 as a "5/10 with good production values". |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Watch Dogs |
| Bobbyaro |
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 11:17
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Replies: 36
Views: 6255
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| I see 7/10 to be, "as good as [AAA title], but the publisher didn't pay as much money." |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Evolve |
| zaphod79 |
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 16:21
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Replies: 34
Views: 4686
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| ... Turtle Rock Studios' cooperative-competitive shooter Evolve will be released globally on Oct. 21 for PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One, publisher 2K Games announced today. Evolve pits a team of four hunters, each with their own skills and specialties, against a giant, player-controlled ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Elite |
| Zio |
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 10:36
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Replies: 763
Views: 52548
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| ... to support this, they're making the game I've dreamed of playing, taking design influence from fans of the previous games like myself instead of publisher influence. Elite Dangerous interests me vastly more than Star Citizen does, just as Frontier got vastly more playtime out of me than Privateer ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: New generic book thread |
| Pundabaya |
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Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 20:39
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Replies: 1039
Views: 153647
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| It's not really supposed to be noticed yet. The idea is that Sanderson wants to do a really massive epic series, but there is no way that any publisher would sign up to a 20+ book series, so each series is largely standalone, however as the books go on, more and more influence from outside ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Dark Souls 2 |
| zaphod79 |
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 17:23
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Replies: 562
Views: 42595
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| ... has slipped a week to May 2, Bandai Namco/Namco Bandai has confirmed. The delay will only apply to the physical release of the game in the UK, the publisher has said. The publisher has said that other territories, and the UK digital release, will still be released on April 25. More on that in a ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Hotline Miami |
| zaphod79 |
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 0:22
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Replies: 107
Views: 9651
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| ... a PlayStation platform, you won't need to buy again. Hotline Miami is officially on the way to PlayStation 4 and will be supported by Cross-Buy, publisher Devolver has confirmed. Speaking to Destructoid at GDC, the company's Nigel Lowrie confirmed that this meant anyone who already owns the game ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Boardgame Thread: Let's organise a beexordgame night. |
| sdg |
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 18:24
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Replies: 1599
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| ... else replied they'd love it if all the marketing material showed cake, the rules mentioned cake but the game came without cake. All letters to the publisher querying this could result in a letter with a five word response... Hmmph. Well, I'd characterise it as a cri du coeur rather than a moan, ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Boardgame Thread: Let's organise a beexordgame night. |
| Rodafowa |
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 16:27
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Replies: 1599
Views: 269940
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| ... else replied they'd love it if all the marketing material showed cake, the rules mentioned cake but the game came without cake. All letters to the publisher querying this could result in a letter with a five word response... Hmmph. Well, I'd characterise it as a cri du coeur rather than a moan, ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Boardgame Thread: Let's organise a beexordgame night. |
| sdg |
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 12:35
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Replies: 1599
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| ... else replied they'd love it if all the marketing material showed cake, the rules mentioned cake but the game came without cake. All letters to the publisher querying this could result in a letter with a five word response... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Batman: Arkham Knight |
| myp |
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 12:47
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Replies: 110
Views: 12302
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| Also no multiplayer! Prediction: publisher pressure will have that shit shoe-horned in at the last minute, possibly even by a separate dev team. Have you actually read the article? Arkham Knight won't have any multiplayer. "This is a ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Batman: Arkham Knight |
| Bamba |
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 12:44
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Replies: 110
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British Nervoso wrote: Also no multiplayer!
Prediction: publisher pressure will have that shit shoe-horned in at the last minute, possibly even by a separate dev team. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Trials Fusion |
| zaphod79 |
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Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 17:44
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Replies: 39
Views: 4933
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| ... pass that allows access to six upcoming DLC packs. Trials Fusion will hit digital stores on April 16 and retail shelves on April 18 in the UK, publisher Ubisoft announced today. The digital version will cost £15.99. No price was revealed for the retail version. In the United States, Trials ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bits N Bobs 42 |
| Trooper |
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Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 14:40
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Replies: 2970
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| ... From that report "3 months after release. Battlefield 4 works to a standard I'd expect from a boxed video game from a major publisher. The PS4 version is solid and reliable (although still hasn't done enough to fully earn my trust), and this game that once fired us up with ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bioshock Infinite announced |
| myp |
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Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2014 14:41
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Replies: 270
Views: 31640
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| Hypothetical: If you bought a season pass and the publisher never released any content (maybe they changed their mind, or went bust, or something) do you have any legal grounds for a refund? iTunes state in their terms and conditions that if you ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bioshock Infinite announced |
| Grim... |
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Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2014 14:35
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Replies: 270
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| Hypothetical: If you bought a season pass and the publisher never released any content (maybe they changed their mind, or went bust, or something) do you have any legal grounds for a refund? |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Nintendo Game |
| zaphod79 |
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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 18:09
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Replies: 10
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| ... number. A very early Wii Fit type game called Stadium Events which was released and withdrawn almost straight away (then came out under another publisher) - one went for something like 15,000 $ last year The prices are around the rarity of the games not the quality e.g. one of the rare and valuable ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Alien : Isolation |
| zaphod79 |
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Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 18:33
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Replies: 190
Views: 17250
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| ... you have probably been asking for in comments threads since Colonial Marines disintegrated on launch like a crap rocket made of blank cheques and publisher's tears. There's still time for Alien: Isolation to stumble - I'll get to that later. First, though, I want to explore why the version I played ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Playstation Vita |
| Satsuma |
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Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2013 11:01
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Replies: 610
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| ... Also, I was reading that, for example, some of these indie games don't make it onto Xbox because Microsoft insists that they must be attached to a publisher. Well more fool them cause Playstation is the play to go for new experiences like this. The irony, of course, is that all of these indie games ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bargains, Bargains, Bargains! |
| zaphod79 |
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Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2013 12:10
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Replies: 8561
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| Have you actually bought those? As far as I am aware, Namco Bandai (publisher of Pac Man CE and Ridge Racer Unbounded) are (alongside Deep Silver) one of the only publishers that region locks Steam keys from North America and from Europe, treating them as ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bargains, Bargains, Bargains! |
| LewieP |
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Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2013 11:54
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Replies: 8561
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| Have you actually bought those? As far as I am aware, Namco Bandai (publisher of Pac Man CE and Ridge Racer Unbounded) are (alongside Deep Silver) one of the only publishers that region locks Steam keys from North America and from Europe, treating them as ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Call of Duty 10 : Ghosts |
| zaphod79 |
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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 7:33
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Replies: 231
Views: 18383
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| ... spend the whole game sitting in a corner waiting for someone to come into their line of view) http://www.examiner.com/article/call-of-duty-ghosts-publisher-talks-hacked-lobbies-and-lack-of-hardcore-modes ‘Call of Duty: Ghosts’ publisher talks hacked lobbies and lack of hardcore mode A spokesperson ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Call of Duty 11 : Advanced Warfare |
| zaphod79 |
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Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 13:01
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Replies: 191
Views: 17154
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| ... has confirmed that new Call of Duty and Skylanders titles will release in 2014. CEO Bobby Kotick announced the unnamed titles during the publisher's Q3 2013 earnings call last night, stating: "Despite short-term uncertainties, as we look forward to 2014, we have a very strong product ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Call of Duty 10 : Ghosts |
| zaphod79 |
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Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 12:54
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Replies: 231
Views: 18383
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| ... out a little bit - it's harder to do the day-one [sales]... but I think we're in a good spot." He added that to encourage early take-up, publisher Activision was offering purchasers of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 games discounted copies of the Xbox One and PS4 editions if they upgraded ... |
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