The greatest video game endings
Finishing a video game is a complicated emotional process. On the one hand, you're done, you've achieved something and you can finally take a shower. On the other hand, a massive gaping hole has just…
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Alternative video game art
Whenever you hear an artist speak about his or her inspiration, if you're actually bothering to listen, then you've probably never heard the words Pac-Man or Double Dragon being used.
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Guinness World Records - Gamer's Edition
If something exists, there is a world record. And where there is a world record there is the Guinness World Records. The fifth edition of Gamer’s Edition is out now, so once we’d picked…
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VIDEO: Sonic The Hedgehog Sells Insurance
Do you find yourself waking up in the middle of the night, drenched in sweat, heart going like the clappers, wondering what happened to Sonic the Hedgehog? No, ahem, us neither. What do you think we…
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Grand Theft Auto V trailer
It's been a long, cold and dark three years since the release of GTA IV, that one what stole a week of our life.
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Gameboy Returns As A Zombie
Ah, the Gameboy; the hoary video game device from 1989. A time when the Stone Roses ruled and Manchester City whipped the butts of Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United. Surely no one cares about…
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The Wii 2: 'The Wii U'
Nintendo has just unveiled their next console. So what is it? It's an HD console named Wii U. It's backwards compatible with all Wii games, so those extra Wiimotes you bought won't go to waste. But…
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Koopa Shells Become Real World Threat
There was nothing quite like the feeling of a second place position in Super Mario Kart, final lap, last corner, race leader in sight, red shell in hand.
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Exclusive Hands-on with Sony’s PSP replacement
The so-called PSP2 was one of the worst-kept secrets in gaming before it was announced in January. Right up there with the PlayStation-certified Sony Ericsson phone. And the slim PS3. Do you notice a…
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Best Of E3 Awards
We've seen a lot of games this week. That should be obvious... And if it feels like you've read that before, that's because you have. We did this whole awards thing yesterday. You can refresh your…
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The Post-it wars
The humble paper cut is nothing to smirk at, oh no. It may seem like a tiny incision but it’s capable of inflicting immense amounts of pain on the injured party. Consider, if you will, a paper…
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PlayStation business card case
If you're at a party, or looking through the window at one, and you see someone pull out a business card holder then chances are you might assume they're a bit of a stiff, or at least not half as…
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Video games vs reality: the sequel
Following last month's collection of awesome video game/real world mash-up shots, lightning has struck twice. Well similar lightning, just in different places.
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Brothers In Arms: Furious 4
Start listing your favourite World War Two shooters. The early Call Of Duty games will no doubt feature. As will a number of Medal Of Honors. And the correct era Battlefields. And probably…
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Far Cry 3: Revealed
Do you know what insanity is? It's doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the results to be different. At least, that's the definition according to the terrifyingly intense leader of…
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E3: The games we're most excited about
It's E3 this week. The mere mention of the annual expo sends shockwaves of excitement through the gaming industry, but prompts barely even a ripple of interest from everyone else. But just because…
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Best wingmen in gaming
Heroism. It’s easy when you’re controlling a video game character from the indent of your sofa, with the only posing threat a diminishing supply of Skittles. But behind every digital…
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The greatest games you'll never play
Development Hell isn’t just a term coined to describe the pitfall that is film-making purgatory; it’s also something that video games have to endure from time to time. And with the news…
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Video games better than the movie they came from
As watching Bob Hoskins playing a dungaree-clad Brooklyn plumber will tell you, films based on video games are, for the most part, abysmal.
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The future of gaming
Forgive us if we sound like old timers but video games have come a hell of a long way in the past 20 years. Remember getting unfeasibly excited about nudging a crudely pixellated character across a…
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Best ways to die in videogames
(Our Top 10 at Ten - this is pretty self-explanatory, right?) Depending how many you’re given from the outset, you probably won’t mind losing lives to a games console. After all, you have…
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Danny Wallace's gaming return
It’s hard to inject much humour into a story about slaughtered family members and the end of civilisation. Hard, but not impossible. Which is where Danny Wallace came in for Assassin’s…
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The Secrets Of Black Ops
Got your copy of Call Of Duty: Black Ops? Of course you have. And given the amount of time you’re bound to sink into it over the next few months, you’ll want a nice high number or…
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Ten Greatest Atari games
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Once upon a time the Atari was the (only) console of choice and now it’s merely shorthand for unflattering graphics and mercilessly used to make t-shirts ironic.
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The video games quiz
Time to prove that you know your Medal of Honor from your Call Of Duty. If you do get 10 out of 10 first time, well done and all that, but maybe you should get out more. Just saying...
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Games to get in 2011
Bulletstorm and Rage might well sound like bands you’re likely to see while surviving a mosh pit, but to the discerning gamer they’re game titles heavily etched into their 2011 wish lists.
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The Game Boy Returns
You're not a complete, functioning human being if a part of you doesn't miss the Game Boy. Resigned to the rubbish bin of our youth, the hand-held gaming device deserves some serious respect for…
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Retro Video Game Showdown
Ever wanted to know which retro console star would win in a race? For all those fellow gamers that still can't get over the fact that Sonic and Mario are now 'friends', here's a nifty video that pits…
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The deaths of Mario
It's a hard life being a short, pudgy, Italian-American plumber from the Mushroom Kingdom.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops beginners guide
The online world of Call Of Duty is a harrowing place. Young American children picking you out with sniper shots from, frankly, obscene distances, grenades going off left, right and centre, death…
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Nintendo launches 3D gaming
While Playstation and XBox have been battling it out with their next generation controllers, Nintendo have come from nowhere and launched the world's first 3D handheld console.
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