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Top Five Games Inspired by Existentialism

Top Five Games Inspired by Existentialism

In this weekly series, writer Pete Lines takes a look at the inspiration behind video games and lists the best examples of that inspiration....

Top 10 Mythology Inspired Video Games

Top 10 Mythology Inspired Video Games

In this weekly series, writer Pete Lines takes a look at the inspiration behind video games and lists the best examples of that inspiration....

Is “Jesus: The Video Game” Possible?

Is “Jesus: The Video Game” Possible?

There’s a distinct lack of games that attempt to portray religious events. There’s plenty of games that are influenced stylistically by ...

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Sells 330,000 Copies

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Sells 330,000 Copies

It’s a tough world for new IP’s in a market full of sequels and easy cash in products. There’s some hope however for Kingdoms of Amalu...

A Game of Thrones Getting Free to Play MMO

A Game of Thrones Getting Free to Play MMO

George RR Martin’s grand world of Westeros is the next to get the MMO treatment in Bigpoint’s upcoming game. Although the novel seri...

Top 10 Video Games D&D Has Influenced

Top 10 Video Games D&D Has Influenced

This article is the first in a series that will explore influences on video games. Today we’re going to be looking at the pen and pape...

Religion in Video Games

Religion in Video Games

As video games grow as an art form, they inevitably begin to attempt to tackle deeper subject matter. Religion is a deeply polarizing topic ...

Battlefield 3 Receiving a Trio of Expansions

Battlefield 3 Receiving a Trio of Expansions

After a period of silence DICE has made an announcement concerning three upcoming Battlefield 3 expansions: In June, take the battle indoors...

Syndicate Review – Deus Ex Turned Up To 11

Syndicate Review – Deus Ex Turned Up To 11

Discard any notions you have of the original Syndicate – other than the futuristic cyberpunk setting, these two games have very little...

Nintendo rejects The Binding of Isaac for 3DS Due to Religious Content

Nintendo rejects The Binding of Isaac for 3DS Due to Religious Content

Edmund Mcmillen the creator of 2011 indie title The Binding of Isaac has announced on his twitter that Nintendo has refused to publish the g...

NeverDead Review – An Eternity of Suffering, Condensed Into a Game

NeverDead Review – An Eternity of Suffering, Condensed Into a Game

Unlike NeverDead’s immortal protagonist, Bryce Boltzman, I at least will die and not have to remember having played this game for an etern...

Analyst Claims that Fears The Old Republic is Failing are Speculation

Analyst Claims that Fears The Old Republic is Failing are Speculation

The fate for many MMORPG’s is that of failure and that is the concern people are having for Star Wars:The Old Republic, following poor tec...