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I hate to confess it, but I’m a bit of a PC snob. When given the choice, I’ll often pick a shoddy console-to-PC port over an arguably superior 360/PS3 native version of a game. There’s just something about knowing that I’m not playing the best looking version of a game. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, for example, played amazingly on consoles, but I couldn’t resist the call of the incredibly minor graphical updates sported by the PC version — even if all my friends played the game elsewhere; and make no mistake, the best parts of the game don’t reveal themselves until you start challenging your friend’s Autolog records.

I walked into a console demo for The Witcher 2 with these biases firmly intact — only to find myself contemplating abandoning my current PC Witcher 2 playthrough in order to tackle it fresh on the 360. From the graphics to the controls, every change in the Witcher 2 came as a pleasant surprise.

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Yoshi Ono is a man as enthusiastic about his signature Street Fighter franchise as he is protective of it, but when the opportunity came to fuse together two of the fighting world’s heavy-hitters to create Street Fighter X Tekken, he had few reservations…

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Yoshi Ono is a man as enthusiastic about his signature Street Fighter franchise as he is protective of it, but when the opportunity came to fuse together two of the fighting world’s heavy-hitters to create Street Fighter X Tekken, he had few reservations…

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The first piece of DLC for Soulcalibur V will be made available next week…

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2012 marks a turning point for the Dirt franchise. After a sly late-year hint it was working on Dirt 4, Codemasters also announced Dirt Showdown, an arcade-centric answer to gymkhana’s inclusion in Dirt 3. Where Dirt 4 will stick to point-to-point rally, Dirt Showdown is about destruction, drifting, and big crashes…

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LEGO HARRY POTTER 5-7 FOR PSP AND DS ONLY
By David Allen

The DS and PSP versions of this game are the same. They differ radically
however from the Xbox and PS3 versions and the Wii version. There are a few
walkthroughs out there for the Xbox and PS3 but nothing for the DS/PSP. Well
here it is…

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THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: OCARINA OF TIME
FOREST TEMPLE WALKTHROUGH 100%
Created By ZeldaMaster489
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(HELLO EVERYONE IF YOU HAVE BEEN READING MY GUIDES YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED THAT IN THE TEXT IN SAYS “DODONGO’S
CAVERN GUIDE. SORRY THAT WAS JUST A TYPO)…

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One of the many complaints levied at Nintendo in the aftermath of its E3 2011 reveal of the Wii U was that the system’s name simply wasn’t good enough. Although few faulted the publisher for wanting to retain its powerful Wii branding, many wondered if ‘Wii U’ would confuse consumers rather than make them immediately understand a new console was on the market. According to the latest rumor moving through the industry, Nintendo might now be reconsidering its naming strategy…

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Netflix bewildered nearly everyone last year when it announced it would separate its streaming and DVD-by-mail services into distinct brands. There was a piece of good news in all of it, and that was Netflix’s intention to add game rentals to the newly revealed Qwikster. But between the negative backlash and confusion generated through this plan, which looked to be an attempt to move away from the DVD-by-mail business it made its name on, plans for Qwikster were dropped and the prospect of game rentals was called into question.

As a part of Netflix’s Q4 earnings report conference call, CEO Reed Hastings stated there are “no plans” to begin offering videogames in addition to DVDs and Blu-rays, Engadget reports. It’s an understandable decision as the company’s mailing service is clearly in decline and its future lies with streaming content. So barring any interest in acquiring a company like OnLive or Gaikai (or developing its own technology) games and Netflix won’t have anything to do with one another in the near future. And it’s a very unlikely scenario to change as Netflix is faced with enough problems in acquiring streaming video content; it doesn’t want to pay more money on a per-user basis in licensing fees but wants to continue growing its user base. Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter is among those who are skeptical such a scenario is possible.

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