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Top 10 (Proven) Health Benefits of Video Games
Views: 43,579 May 25 2011Most gamers play games for one reason: because they're fun. The things that makes us happy in life are always worth indulging in, we only get one life and we should enjoy it as much as we can; but there are those who claim that gaming is bad for us ...
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Top 10 best and worst of videogame hair
Views: 3,498 May 20 2011The difficulty in depicting hair convincingly has been around since the inception of videogames. With too few pixels to represent waving locks of hair, most of the earliest games characters were bald or wore hats. Whether it was Pacman’s smooth dome or ...
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Top 10 Embarrassingly bad moments in Videogame Marketing
Views: 5,444 Mar 28 2011While there are always a few great ads and campaigns for games and consoles, the majority end up being patronising, offensive, childish, desperate, dull or just mystifyingly bad. With 80′s power suit-wearing advertising executives trying to sell products ...
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Top 5 awkward videogame sex scenes
Views: 59,118 Mar 28 2011In the wake of the truly awful sex scenes in Dragons Age 2, I started to wonder if the medium was anywhere near mature enough to tackle this difficult area of human interaction. Rarely can movies get sex scenes right, and thereâs an annual award ...
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Top 10 underwhelming videogame boss fights
Views: 71,569 Mar 11 2011Love them or hate them, boss battles have existed in games since almost the beginning of our hobby and will continue to challenge and frustrate us for as long as games exist. What happens when they disappoint us though? This list showcases the most ...
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Top 5 religions that would make great games
Views: 29,986 Mar 3 2011When it comes to finding inspiration for new games, developers are happy to look to films, books, comics, myths and folklore to find rich veins of inspiration. Why not consider major religions too? Sure, we get the odd title like Dante’s Inferno that’s ...
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Top 5 better choices for Catwoman than Anne Hathaway
Views: 23,006 Mar 3 2011We all know that Nolans Batman movies have been great. Many people doubted that Heath Ledger would be a good Joker, but now we look back on his performance as the definitive version of Batmans ultimate nemesis. Is it fair then to doubt Nolan can pull the ...
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Top 10 reasons Kinect sucks
Views: 182,993 Mar 3 2011I carefully considered the title of this article, but couldn’t come up with anything more succinct or unambiguous as the one I chose. Kinect, quite simply, sucks. The most recent statement from Microsoft outlines exactly how hard it sucks. Kinect is ...
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Top 10 worst cartoons based on videogames
Views: 10,668 Feb 2 2011Movie adaptations of videogames have frequently been awful. They exist as a way for a studio to get name recognition for a genre film and allow a fledgling Director to get their first shot at a feature. Most often they alienate the fanbase of the game by ...
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Top 5 indie games of 2010 you can play right now
Views: 2,870 Jan 20 2011While most of your time last year was probably spent playing WOW Cataclysm, Black Ops, Halo and God of War, there was a whole other world of gaming waiting for you. That world is indie games, a strange place full of experimental gameplay, stylized and ...
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Top 10 plot twists in games
Views: 22,590 Jan 7 2011Games surprise us less often than movies. Whiles there’s thousands of films with double crosses, narrative shifts and twist endings, most games are as predictable as a spiky haired amnesiac in a JRPG. Whether it’s an unexpected plot twist, an unforeseen ...
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Top 10 most exciting games of 2011
Views: 4,864 Dec 15 2010As 2010 wraps up what games will make your 2011 a great year?
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Top 10 times when its acceptible for a guy to cry at movies
Views: 4,508 Nov 26 2010While it’s socially acceptable for lady folk to break into tears at the mere sight of sparkly Edward and whiney Bella or to unleash torrents of tears to whatever sentimental, sob-fest Nicholas Sparks has written on his Notebook, it’s not the same for ...
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Top 10 coolest guns in movies
Views: 29,181 Nov 16 2010A strange list for a pacifist, tree huggin', war protestin' guy like me to write, but guns in movies are sometimes very cool and anything cool can and should be put in a top 10 list.
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Top 5 crazy things built in Minecraft
Views: 33,165 Nov 16 2010Minecraft allows you to create anything you can imagine that can be shaped with square blocks. From the basic interactions between wood, stone, glass, water and other materials, you have all the tools you need to craft complex and dynamic objects and ...
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Top 5 unintentionally funny game moments
Views: 5,019 Nov 12 2010As gamers, we spend much of our time shooting, fighting, crafting, exploring, pwning and swearing at opponents, our controllers and the PS3′s firmware updates. The question is, can games make us laugh too. Well, apart from Monkey Islands and anything ...
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Top 5 Reasons not to buy Halo Reach
Views: 8,343 Nov 5 2010The Halo marketing storm has well and truly hit, if you haven’t heard the meaningless phrase “Remember Reach” then you’ve been living under a rock with no cable and internet. The web has been plastered with Reach coloured wallpaper, you can’t escape the ...
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Top 10 games to play when you’re depressed
Views: 11,672 Nov 5 2010We all have tough days, tough weeks and even tough years. At our lowest points we need to find a way to get through the day and so we look at the hobby that normally just entertains us and we ask that hobby to also make us feel better about ourselves.
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Top 5 Tense Movie Face-offs
Views: 2,741 Nov 3 2010Some of my favourite scenes in movies happen when two actors get a chance to face off and confront each other. They might be about to shoot it out or engage in a kung fu tournament to determine the fate of our world, but the really thrilling part is the ...
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Super Street Fighter 4 – Top 5 Tips for beginners
Views: 6,584 Nov 3 2010I recently picked up Super Streetfighter 4 for a crazy-cheap price. I had the original Street fighter 4 and probably racked up over a thousand games. I enjoyed it greatly, but over time I got increasingly annoyed with it till I was shouting at the TV.
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Top 10 original videogame halloween costumes
Views: 43,167 Nov 3 2010If you want to represent your hobby at halloween, there’s two paths you can take. You can dress as a videogame character that you’re non-videogame-loving friends will recognise, or you can go for broke and pick something original. For all those who don’t ...
