Videogames highlights - November 2012

March 2, 2013 · Filed Under In Depth, Videogaming · Comment 
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In Depth - A merciless lens pointed on the hot topics, passionate and detailed retrospectives, reflections beyond the appearances Today’s myth to debunk is the death of single-player games, a type of gaming interaction that the big publishers would like to dismiss in support of an extreme monetization of on-line games and that unknown developers of casual/social shits dare to define a “gimmick” with no future. And this is why the single-player game Dishonored sold much more than expected, that the long anticipated BioShock Infinite will not have a multiplayer mode and so Metro: Last Light as well. Single-player games are dead, unfortunately the idiots that don’t know what they are talking about are pretty much alive.

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Videogames highlights - November 2008

December 12, 2008 · Filed Under In Depth, Videogaming · 1 Comment 
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In Depth - A merciless lens pointed on the hot topics, passionate and detailed retrospectives, reflections beyond the appearancesIn a way almost specular to the knots of the global economy, the videogames market is in this period gathering releases with an unprecedented quality and quantity. Waiting for the storm to pass away, the interactive entertainment proves to suffer much less the effects of the recession hence it is a great pleasure for me to feature a short but selected collection of streaming videos for some of the best gifts a videogamer could ever get during the holidays.

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