The Lost Art Of Twitch Gaming

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While Twitch.TV is soaring in popularity, it is ironic that the familiarly named Twitch gaming style is fading away. Twitch gaming is a way of playing a videogame that employs the maximum use of the players ability to react to and read scenarios. It is a bit like playing at a professional level in tennis, compared to playing at a leisure club. It simply demands more human ability. Multiplayer first person shooters classically encouraged this type of gameplay. Many of which were specifically designed around the fact that people would play the game and expect to play the game this way. However, as videogames become more mainstream, we see a gradual dampening in the average ability of human players. As something... Read More »

DOTA 2 Massive MOBA Popularity

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You may or may not of heard of a little game by Valve called DOTA 2. With 10,930,000 unique players in the last month this is the Half-Life developers flagship title at the moment. DOTA, stands for Defense Of The Ancients and MOBA means Multiplayer Online Battle Arena. Combine the two and you get a game which garners a worldwide audience and one of the most lucrative professional gaming scenes on the planet. All types of gamers dip in to try DOTA 2, from casual noobs to competitive gaming veterans. Some leave, but many players stay. So what makes is it that makes it so popular? When you try DOTA 2 for the first... Read More »

Star Wars Battlefront

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Star Wars battlefront is a game people might remember from its 2005 release on Xbox and PS2, and fans of the game might be pleased to hear about a reboot of the game on PS4 and Xbox One. Star Wars Battlefront (2015) is a game which has been in development since the rights to the gaming franchise (all star wars games) were acquired by Electronic Arts in 2013. As it’s a revamp, a lot of the features of the game are likely to remain the same, but with a new spin and a lot of the issues worked out. Hopefully the game will be a step up on the previous... Read More »

Is The Last of Us Worth all the Hype?

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If you’ve not played The Last of Us yet, you should. By widespread agreement, it is one of the best games within the last 5 years, and the best within the last 2. Based in a future where the human race has been devastated by a fungus which attaches to people, quickly spreading to the person’s brain and taking over the nervous system and killing the host, who’s body then proceeds to attack anybody else not infected (kind of like zombies). You play a man who lost his daughter when the fungus first started spreading, who was hired to smuggle a young girl outside of the quarantine zone by a... Read More »

3 Reasons why Mario is the Ultimate Classic

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Mario is one of those games that most people will never forget, and that’s because it was the king of computer games for many years, and even today many people bring out this traditional game from time to time. It’s Addicting No matter how many times you’ll fail and scream at the TV or Game Boy, you’ll always pick up the controller again. That was the effect of Mario and its popularity grew and grew. It’s Timeless You cna enjoy Mario now on the Wii, on the original Game boy or on your computer and it the original version still hold their value today. It’s Simple While the levels seem... Read More »
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