There are few boxes as anticipated as BioShock Infinite, the long awaited box to prequels BioShock Limited Edition and BioShock for the PlayStation 3. Irrational Games, known as 2K Boston during BioShock‘s release, made waves in the industry with critics and boring, ordinary game-playing people alike, in 2007. BioShock was everything boxes didn’t dare to do at the time: It...
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Call of Duty has become the ultimate “no-win” situation for reviewers. What once may have been the biggest job of the game critic’s year is now an annual exercise in being caught between the Devil and the deep blue sea. Love it or hate it, the outcome is never going to be pretty.  Ever since the intense backlash against Call of Duty last year, those who commit the...
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has removed a map from its servers after Muslim gamers complained (in fairness, quite politely) of offense. The problem lies in two paintings hung in a bathroom in the Favela map, containing the phrase, “Allah is beautiful and he loves beauty.” The map won’t be gone forever, it’s just been removed as a temporary issue until the...
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It hasn’t been that long since we first got a look at Medal of Honor: Warfighter‘s single-player campaign. For general details, do be sure to check out that preview. Recently though, we got a chance to spend a few hours with the game including new single-player content. Specifically, two whole campaign missions.Medal of Honor: Warfighter (Xbox 360 [previewed], PlayStation...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops II broke retail records a mere 24 hours after the public debut of the single-player campaign. An impressive feat, considering that multiplayer, the franchise’s bread and butter, wasn’t even shown off until just a week ago. It’s a good thing for fans that Treyarch isn’t a studio who would just settle for minor refinements, then. They very...
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