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Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit DLC Content Insights

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit DLC Content Insights

Now the DLC for Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit can range from purchasing a single car to buying a pack of cars with extra career content.  Here is a little break down of what is worth purchasing and... Read More

Exclusive Hunted: The Demon’s Forge Preview

Exclusive Hunted: The Demon’s Forge Preview

We recently got a chance to preview and play Hunted: The Demon's Forge in NYC, my favorite place I might add for a Bethesda event.  The event is where we also got a chance to play as well as previe... Read More

All Gamers Are Still Children: The Delusional Marketing of Dead Space 2

All Gamers Are Still Children: The Delusional Marketing of Dead Space 2

Video game marketing strategies need to grow along with the gamers they target.

Pokemon Black and White: When Can You Expect Our Review?

Pokemon Black and White: When Can You Expect Our Review?

It's almost here, folks. We're on the last lap, and as only twelve days remain that separate us from the next installment in one of the biggest franchises in gaming, I'm sure there are loads of you gu... Read More

Downloadable Content and the Death of the Reasonably Priced Expansion

Downloadable Content and the Death of the Reasonably Priced Expansion

There's a trend in the industry that is skewing players toward paying for content that has already been completed. How far are we willing to let that go?

Mass Effect- Then And Now

Mass Effect- Then And Now

BioWare has always been known for making great games, but they have never gone through a time as good as the seventh generation of gaming. They have given out some great games, the best of which has t... Read More

Almost Classics: Too Human

Almost Classics: Too Human

There have been several attempts to translate the elegiac mythology of the Norse culture into games. For the most part, they involve players waving axes and hitting people with them while yelling thin... Read More

Handheld Gaming- Year In Review 2010

Handheld Gaming- Year In Review 2010

2010 has been a great year in gaming- this is probably something you must have become sick of reading by now, especially here on GamingBolt. But it's true. This year truly has seen some truly memo... Read More

How The Wii Reclaimed The Hardcore Gamer In 2010

How The Wii Reclaimed The Hardcore Gamer In 2010

The Nintendo Wii is a bit of a conundrum, probably the biggest paradox that has ever existed in the gaming industry. Here you have a console that literally exploded in retail overnight, going on to se... Read More

PC In 2010- Just How Good Was The Year For The System?

PC In 2010- Just How Good Was The Year For The System?

As we have done for the PS3 and the Xbox 360, today we are doing a "Year In Review" article for the PC, where we will be looking at all the four quarters of the year for the PC, and how good/bad they ... Read More

Next Island Could Become The Next Best MMO

Next Island Could Become The Next Best MMO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOkO0qh8710 Some of you might be saying, "What the hell is Next Island?".  Next Island is an MMO created by David Post that is built on a real economy system that i... Read More

Xbox 360 had No Games in 2010…Say What?

Xbox 360 had No Games in 2010…Say What?

In this second part of our “Year in Review” series, we take a look at how Microsoft’s Xbox 360 performed throughout the year 2010.  Against common belief, my analysis shows that the Xbox 360 ha... Read More

Was 2010 the Greatest Year for the PlayStation 3?

Was 2010 the Greatest Year for the PlayStation 3?

2010 is almost coming to an end and what a year it has been for Sony’s PlayStation 3. In our first part of our “Year in Review 2010”, we take a look at how the PlayStation 3 performed throughout... Read More

Zombies!

Zombies!

I think part of the wild popularity of the zombie genre – in film, comic books, TV shows, and prose fiction – is part of the zeitgeist for our generation: we’re stuck in a world that values our ... Read More

You Have Not Met The Prerequisites To Read This Article

You Have Not Met The Prerequisites To Read This Article

Call me an old fogey, but I prefer the Team Fortress 2 of three years ago, when it first released. You know what comprised the core of the experience back then? Getting the intelligence, or pushing th... Read More

Your Favorite Franchise Sucks: The Hidden Cost of A Franchise Dominated Industry

Your Favorite Franchise Sucks: The Hidden Cost of A Franchise Dominated Industry

Trying to argue the negative impact of franchise gaming is a tough sell. Anyone dumb enough to try is immediately bombarded with the impact of each franchise, the popularity of its main character or t... Read More

Donkey Kong Country Returns: A Retro Revival

Donkey Kong Country Returns: A Retro Revival

Retro Studios have their task cut for them- the Texan game developers, who shot to fame in the early 2000's following their masterful revival of Nintendo's sci fi space trotting series, Metroid, with ... Read More

Why Fable III Might Be The Game The First One Should Have Been

Why Fable III Might Be The Game The First One Should Have Been

The story of the Fable series is incredibly interesting- it is a tale of crushing disappointment, bitter resentment, and unfulfilled promise on the one hand, and a charm that appeals to everybody,... Read More

Top 10 The Legend of Zelda Games Of All Time (#5 – #1)

Top 10 The Legend of Zelda Games Of All Time (#5 – #1)

First of all, we would like to apologise to all our readers for keeping them waiting for these next five entries for so long, and for postponing this list again and again. However, here is the list no... Read More

A Look At Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood

A Look At Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood

Assassin's Creed is probably one of the biggest names in the industry, and for every different person, it evokes different feelings. Some call it repetitive, predictive, boring, and "vague." Other... Read More