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Congratulations! You’ve been selected to play Dota 2

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Yesterday I received an email in my inbox from Valve. It informed me that I have been allowed access to Dota 2 and I was happy to get it. Now, I am not a big MOBA player or anything. I never played the original Dota and have only the smallest level of experience with League of Legends.

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Revisiting Guild Wars 2

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So I was one of the masses of people that pre-purchased Guild Wars 2 before launch, played in a beta event or two, and I was there eagerly awaiting to login as soon as the servers went live. I was having a lot of fun playing GW2, viewing all of the vista’s and doing the

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Logitech Harmony Touch remote, reviewed

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If your house is anything like mine, you probably have way too many remote controls. Every new device you hook up has its own remote. First you have a TV remote, then you add in a blu-ray player remote, surround sound remote and then any other devices you have will add even more remotes. Before

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Sony’s HDR-PJ260V Camcorder reviewed

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We’ve all been there. You just captured the perfect video of your friends, family, child or maybe your pet and you want to see it again but you’re just not really feeling it on your camcorders small LCD screen. Oh and forget trying to watch it comfortably with someone else. Obviously you could pull out

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Audyssey Wireless Speakers review

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Audyssey has released their newest product for audiophiles everywhere, the Audyssey Wireless Speakers. While not entirely wireless, these speakers deliver a great sound experience that will be sure to please. Let’s explore what we discovered about the Audyssey Wireless Speakers from our in-house testing. Physical Appearence The sound that these speakers produce makes it sort

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A look at the SteelSeries wireless World of Warcraft mouse

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SteelSeries, the folks behind the awesome Guild Wars 2 licensed peripherals that we told you about in October, are back in our spotlight again with their newest gaming mouse. Allow me to introduce you to the SteelSeries World of Warcraft wireless MMO mouse. Let’s dig in for a closer look. Attractiveness / Build Quality This

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Steam Guard to be required for trades

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Steam Guard is going to be required for all trading done through Valve starting on December 12th. Steam Guard was introduced back in March 2011 as a simple form of account protection that required an email verification when users logged onto Steam from a new computer or browser. Now with it being integrated into Steam

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Minecraft: Pi Edition announced

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Owen Hill announced today that Mojang is going to release a version of Minceraft: Pocket Edition dubbed the Pi Edition for the miniature computer Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi is a small computer about the size of a credit card that plugs into a TV or a computer monitor and keyboard. It can play HD video and

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Achievements and Trophies for Grid 2 will be designed by a fan site

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Codemasters’ Grid 2 will have it’s achievements and trophies designed by xbox360achievements.org and the sister site ps3trophies.org. Both sites revolve around tracking achievements/trophies and feature guides on how to obtain them. The editor in chief of both websites, Dan Webb, says that being able to design achievements in a game has been a long term goal for

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Petition for XBLIG developers

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Right now on change.org there is a petition in the works in support of XBLIG developers. As of this writing XBLIG developers have not received a single pay check from Microsoft for 142 days or since July 1st. This to me is completely ridiculous and that is why the petition exists. If you are in the same boat as me

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No more first party Wii games

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According to Nintendo of America director of product marketing Bill Trinen, Nintendo will no longer be making first party Wii games. This means that as long as no new projects for the Wii are announced in the future, Kirby’s Dream Collection, a bundle of hits from the franchise which launched in North America Sept. 16, the

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Double Fine’s amnesia fortnight goes public

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Every year, the developers at Double Fine have a little shindig that goes by the name of Amnesia Fortnight where they have two weeks to prototype their dream game. But this year Double Fine is letting the public decide what games get prototyped. Double Fine has teamed up with Humble Bundle to launch a website devoted to this year’s Amnesia

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Star Wars: The Old Republic’s free-to-play option is now available

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Today Star Wars: The Old Republic’s free-to-play option is available to the public starting today. Players can play until level 50 completely free. The subscription service still exists and complements the free-to-play option. That said there are some major differences between the two version although it is still essentially the same game. If you would like to know more

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Devil May Cry demo is coming very soon

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Gamers on Xbox 360 and Playstion 3 in North America will be able to pick up the Devil May Cry Demo on November 20th and for European gamers, you can pick it up on November 21st. The demo is set to keep gamers busy since it has two levels, a boss battle, and various difficulty settings. One of those

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Interview with Default Games

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1) Who is behind Default Games? Where did you get the name? Default Games is pretty much just me – just a guy from Germany who loves playing and making games. I outsourced a small part of the graphics and got some bits and pieces for the soundtrack from friends, but the bulk of the

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