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Around the network - mid Februrary finagaling

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:25:00 GMT

A fine selection of the best from gaming this week.
We're approaching the mid-point of the shortest of months, but with Valentine's day to negotiate next week it's probably not a good time to take your eye off the ball if you want to stay in your sig other's good books. Still, Vita will be with us before the end of the month, so distract yourself from a weekend of desperate shopping with some fine reading matter from our friends and colleagues on Games Radar and the three Official titles who have been cooking up some fine gaming fare for you to enjoy. So enjoy!

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Around the network: late January blues edition

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:56:00 GMT

Here's the very best in gaming from our erstwhile colleagues and friends.
It's coming to the end of January now and 2012 hasn't so much kicked off with a bang as a whimper. Still we trust in better times ahead, hoping that that ancient Mayan bloke simply mislaid his chisel rather than actually predicting that the world would end in December. Still, even if he was right that leaves nearly eleven months of solid gaming to go before the apocalypse and we might even have finished Skyrim by then. In the meantime our esteemed colleagues and friends have found plenty to write about in the world of gaming and here's their finest selection of goodies from this week.

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Around the network: mid to late January blues edition

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:56:00 GMT

GAME website 'hacked', passwords obtained - Report

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:27:00 GMT

Over 200 email addresses, passwords affected, it's claimed.
Update: GAME has denied reports that its customer database security has been compromised.

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Kinect to hit PC February 1

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:00:00 GMT

CES keynote outlines next steps for motion control, forces gospel choir to sing tweets.
Last night, to the distant jangle of coins falling into the slots of the Venetian Casino, Microsoft outlined its plans for the next year - in what was its last ever keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show.

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Around the Network: 2012 New Year edition

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:51:00 GMT

The very best of gaming on the web.
Welcome to the first Around the Network of 2012, if you don't know the drill by now, it runs thusly: charming, intelligent and ridiculously good-looking as every member of the CVG team is, we're not the only ones doing games you know. On no, not by any means, we have plenty of esteemed (though slightly less attractive) colleagues, earnestly beavering away on the very best gaming has to offer, solely for your delectation and here are the finest things they've uncovered this week. Welcome to the year of gaming which we call 2012!

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Win! Massive gaming Xmas book bundle

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:57:00 GMT

Old Republic, Uncharted, BioShock and Deus Ex novels up for grabs.
Eyes swimming from turkey and mince pie overdose? Blurred by an excess of EastEnders and real family in-fighting? Played so much Old Republic that you're starting to feel the Force in uncomfortable places?

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Around the network

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:41:00 GMT

The best in gaming in the week before Xmas.
Need some deeper reading about some of the great games stuff you've encountered on CVG, well look no further as we have a host of splendid stablemates producing quality features, insightful pieces and general goodness on this thing we call gaming. Here's what they've been up to this week.

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CVG Poll: Superhero movie of the year

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:03:00 GMT

Don your mask, cape and let us know.
Superhero movies, one of our preferred ways to expend an idle hour or two, your second favourite thing to do apparently (after gaming mind, keep it clean) and the subject of today's CVG random spot poll.

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30 in 30: Valve

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:50:00 GMT

Raising the bar, thinking with portals, making the world a better place...
From the very first time we saw the old logo of a bald man with the red valve stuck in the back of his head and heard the 'derr, durgh' noise we were transfixed. Since Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington decamped from Microsoft to set up shop in 1996 we've been through a lot with Valve. From scientists waiting... for us... in the test chamber all the way to trudging through the bowels of Aperture Science with a passive aggressive potato: it's been an emotional ride.

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Why I love SSX

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:30:00 GMT

Rich McCormick lauds the inner zen of EA's stuntboarder ahead of its 360 resurrection.
Forty feet above potential death, wind whipping my face as chunks of ice snap free around me, I find a moment of gorgeous, golden silence. SSX is - despite neon colouration, hyperactive tricks, Escher-esque courses and the constant squawking of both your rider and your DJ - about little pockets of peace.

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CVG Poll: first-person shooters

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:01:00 GMT

Which big shooters did you buy this year?.
It's arguably been one of the best years ever for first-person shooter fans with a cavalcade of top titles including two massive blockbusters duking it out for the FPS crown.

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Max Payne retrsopective

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:30:00 GMT

Bow down to the don of sardonic, smartarse heroes...
It's now hard to explain the powerful first-time thrill of playing Max Payne.

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Max Payne retrsopective

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:30:00 GMT

Bow down to the don of sardonic, smartarse heroes...
It's now hard to explain the powerful first-time thrill of playing Max Payne.

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Around the network

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:10:00 GMT

A little sampler of all that's good in gaming.
Here's this week's latest highlights from m'learned friends and colleagues in the world of gaming... Whether you're on PC, Xbox, PlayStation or Nintendo fan, you should find something here to enjoy and if you're feeling particularly bold, why not just plunge into a new format and see what it might have to offer.

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Around the network

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:10:00 GMT

10 years of Xbox: Early days of Xbox Live

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:07:00 GMT

'Broadband only?!'.
The Xbox platform is 10 years old this week and to celebrate we put a load of blokes in a room to talk about it.

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Irrational reveals BioShock's bizarre Bollywood predecessor

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:39:00 GMT

Silent Hill meets Zelda meets Devil May Cry ends up in India.
In the latest of Irrational Games' 'From The Vault' feature the BioShock: Infinite studio revealed a little more information on The Lost, an early project that never saw the light of day. Well, not in the western gaming market anyway...

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10 years of Xbox: The early games

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:24:00 GMT

KoTOR, Splinter Cell, Morrowind...
Guess what? The Xbox platform is 10 years old this week.

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10 years of Xbox: Industry recalls its first impressions

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:14:00 GMT

'The controller's massive', 'it looks like a house'.
In case you hadn't noticed, the Xbox platform is 10 years old today.

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Happy 10th birthday Xbox: 'We're incredibly proud' says Euro boss

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:03:00 GMT

Microsoft looks back at a decade of Xbox.
Xbox is ten years old today, having hit US stores on November 15, 2001, and Microsoft bigwig Chris Lewis has been reflecting on the brand's launch, present and future in an interview with Edge.

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The week in games

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:54:00 GMT

Here's what's happenning this week...
As if your bank balance isn't already crying from the sudden onslaught of games this autumn, there's even more out this week, dominated by the twin releases of the two biggest games of the year, Modern Warfare and Elder Scrolls. Still there's also a few other titles outside of these two behemoths worthy of your consideration (maybe) so here's what's on offer this week.

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The week in games

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:54:00 GMT

History Lesson: Koji Kondo

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMT

Celebrating Nintendo's musical maestro...
"Koji Kondo is not the Mozart of videogame music. Mozart was the Koji Kondo of classical music."

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History Lesson: Koji Kondo

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMT

Celebrating Nintendo's musical maestro...
"Koji Kondo is not the Mozart of videogame music. Mozart was the Koji Kondo of classical music."

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