A Big Winner in Gaming
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Mandalay falls short as gamblers lose less; Shuffle Master's winning streak continues.
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It doesn't break new ground, and the plot is a little sparse, but thanks to its visual quality and ability to suck you into its world, Half Life 2 is probably the best game of 2004. By Suneel Ratan.
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Advertisers meld into the gameplay by adding content. From their perspective, it's a win-win situation. By John Gaudiosi.
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These games aren't the best, nor are they the prettiest. &nbsp;Instead, these are the games I played with my friends - the games let us kick the ever-loving-crap out of each other in increasingly fascinating ways. &nbsp;These are the most original head-to-head sleeper hits on the Sony Playstation. Just some fun stuff you might've missed the first time around.
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The eagerly anticipated Doom 3 has stormed to the top of the UK games charts.
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Picking the year's best and worst video games can be a lot harder than playing them. 2004 was a great year for gamers, with some of the most anticipated games of all time being released.
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Video game developer is moving in the right direction, despite an "unprofitable" image it needs to shake.
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Electronic Arts is back in the game it never left.
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Despite multiplayer gaming trend, new titles prove that solo gaming is still going strong.
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Tycho:   The foe revealed, Armadeaddon is now almost complete.  Monday will see the promised epilogue, so at this point you have very nearly survived the ordeal.  We have endeavored these past weeks to reward the true "enthusiast," that man or woman who, brow heavy, has faced such cruel abuse at our hand for the last seven years.  It is apparently our policy to honor such dedication one every decade.    Since it was announced a couple days ago, the revelation that MS would be actively courting the hardcore boardgame player is something I've thought about almost constantly.  It may be that you weren't aware there was such a thing as a hardcore player of boardgames if your last experience with the context was playing Sorry! with your sister when you were eight.  Things have progressed.   There's a million experiences in this space I could use to lure you in, but one company in particular - Days of Wonder has already decided to make electronic variants of their tabletop crack, so they occupy a twilight space between the worlds.  I hope they see an opportunity to take their (already completed!) games over to the 360, or that Microsoft offers them a locked case containing an unspecified amount of untraceable U.S. Currency, because I'd love to see this prescient move by MS turn into a new era.   Days of Wonder makes a game called Shadows Over Camelot that could quickly become a dangerous obsession, obscuring biological realities with a single-minded focus on grails.  Well, grail I guess.  There's just the one.    But it's a completely cooperative boardgame, so every player is working toward the same goals - fighting back invasions, questing, all of it.  Except there might be a traitor in the group, determined by a hidden draw, who tries to derail the effort.  He's not always there, but the potentiality of that nefarious force can create unbelievable social tension.    The gaming table's fixed coordinate in space is its asset and its obstacle - managing space and time is actually the primary challenge of any gaming group, as opposed to banishing necromancers, though that also ranks up there.  Boardgames are so rich in design that, when one of these gets dropped in front of them on Live, I think many gamers will be shocked at their sophistication.    My thumbs hurt.  (CW)TB out.
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Consumers get psyched for the release of Nintendo and Sony gaming devices.
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The battle to dominate the red-hot wireless gaming market is on.
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A combination of video gaming and memory technology could transform the industry.
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The company recently crowned a winner in its Monopoly game, one of its best promotional programs.
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Video games with online components or multiplayer capability bring in much more revenue than stand-alone games.
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This is the game that has been hailed as the killer of all first person shooters since it was first announced over a year ago, and most who have said that hadn&#39;t even played it yet - that&#39;s how confident people are that this game is just that good.
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Sleek new specs take playing games or watching movies the a whole new (possibly sickening) level. In Game|Life.