I hate beta invites. Passionately. I never ever get given beta keys, I get my knickers in a twist and then I have to wait for everybody else to parade their fortune in gameplay videos. Half my battle.net friends list have keys. My mother probably has a key. Does somebody have a vendetta against my email address?
Wait, nevermind.
Sandbox behemoths like Grand Theft Auto always make me feel like that genre is all-inclusive. Aspects of just about everything are covered, with little room for improvement – it’s hard to be ingenious and unique enough to make a game that breaks free from the monopoly that Rockstar Games have established through amazing design.
Watch_Dogs, on the other hand, looks amazing.
Following Sony’s release of the Playstation 4 in February, and Nintendo’s Wii U release last year, Microsoft have shown their mathematical prowess by revealing their weapon in the war for control of the gaming console market – the Xbox One.
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I’ve been putting off extending the titanic grip of Finchtopia to other regional zones, but the time seems to have come. The oil fields of Finchburg are emptying, the ground is rife with pollution. What more is there to do to make ends meet?
Ore, of course!
I guess it was only a matter of time before I encountered some crippling server issues while playing Simcity. Sitting through a repetitive loading screen as the industrious kingdom of Finchtopia is loaded left me wondering – why am I here?
The answer is simple, and EA have defended it since Simcity’s launch.
I guess it was only a matter of time before I encountered some crippling server issues while playing Simcity. Sitting through a repetitive loading screen as the industrious kingdom of Finchtopia is loaded left me wondering – why am I here?
The answer is simple, and EA have defended it since Simcity’s launch.
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I finally managed to get my mitts on SimCity today, and to say its been hard to put down would be an understatement.
No, seriously.
I finally managed to get my mitts on Simcity today, and to say it’s been hard to put down would be an understatement.
No, seriously.
I remember thinking, when I first read PCG’s piece on Planetside 2 what seems like a decade ago, that it would eclipse all other games on my radar if it nailed it.
It didn’t quite stun me into silence, but the pieces are there.
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