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With the recent release of Homefront and its five hour campaign, gamers are bringing into question whether games are becoming too short to warrant to expensive price. We try to analyze why the industry has cut down on the length and added unnecessary features. Cheers!
Collectors are an odd bunch, I should know, I'm one of them lol, but one of OXCGN's team is also an avid collector, and looks at the changing trends in so-called collectors editions, or should I say, games passing themselves off as collectible items, in this neat article.
Come check it out, share your thoughts, I'm sure many have had the collectors bug at some stage, but most importantly, what do you think of current trends . . .
2010 has been another bumper year for gamers and it is now time to reflect on what games made this year so great. With 18 award categories including the overall game of the year award, there are several great games given the nod as the "best" in their respective category. So sit back and enjoy our awards and let us know what you think of our choices.
BrightHub gives you some more gift ideas for your PC game shopping needs with a couple of excellent retail titles. Feel like getting creative? Why not give someone a digital gift in the form of a downloadable title?
All Age Gaming's John Elliott brings us the 9th developer profile. This fortnight he looks at the System Shock 2 and Bioshock series developer Irrational Games. See inside for a look into the FPS developer.
2010 is shaping up to be one of the most jam-packed years in the gaming industry with many excellent games already released in the first-quarter alone. Here are ten can't miss games so far this year.
I think gamers as a whole can end the discussion on whether or not downloadable content that is on the disc is an okay practice. Keep discussions on whether or not DLC is a good thing at all, or whether it should always be free, but as far as being on the disc and charged for later, it's not okay.
GameZone's Luke "K" Wing takes a close look at BioShock 2, after the hype has died down and people aren't going crazy for it. The video runs about nine minutes long.
"You’re standing in a dank dungeon, looking for a door that doesn’t exist. The lights flicker, and you hear the raging scream of a distant enemy. Flump, flump – the steps are getting closer. Arming yourself with your favourite weapon, you peer around a corner in the low light and you see him: the Big Daddy. By this time in the game, you have crossed over a mysterious threshold – your brain has mapped itself into the undersea world of Rapture and all you care about is saving your own skin. An i..."
Bioshock 2 has been praised but remains in the shadow of Bioshock. Many gamers didn't find it as fresh as the original. Regardless of how you rate the game, it is the "shock" franchise that set a standard for involved, cerebral FPS play when first-person shooters were mindless frag-fests.
"Microsoft’s Games on Demand service for the Xbox 360 and Games for Windows – LIVE has had plenty of negative press since it’s arrival, yet Microsoft have persisted and continuously updated the catalogue on both formats. Over time, both marketplaces have evolved into competitive consumer outlets, while always maintaining the boundaries of later than retail, and slightly more expensive. Microsoft’s promise that the service wouldn’t tread on retail’s toes seemed to be holding true. However, only..."
"I’d like to take a moment to voice my opinion on Bioshock 2 and some of the reviews its received. Most notably the idea that it was more of an expansion, and that we shouldn’t have paid full price. I for one am a huge fan of the first game and was more then thrilled with the second, which was everything I’d hoped for and more."
All Age Gaming's Phong Nguyen bring's us the 29th AAG "The Week That Was". This week he discusses the overall sales figures for the Gran Turismo series, Nintendo's fining of an Australian man, Wii sales figures, Microsoft's X10 event, Alan Wake and more.
Bioshock 2's hacking is an integral part of the game - It's also impossible for many colorblind people to do.
Various members on the official forums have asked 2K Games to patch in some colour-changing options, as the colors in the hacking tool all look very similar to people with any form of color-blindness.
The first screenshot shows us what Bioshock 2's hacking looks like to people with 'normal' vision. But the other three screenshots have been altered ny Negativegamer.com to show u...
There's been some talk going around lately about the relationship between Nintendo and third party developers. An example being difficulty with hardcore third party titles. Lee Evans has posted a blog entry going over some facts and figures in an effort to shed some light on the matter and the severity of the situation.
"Needless to say, with its presentation of an objectivist utopian culture gone awry, the original Bioshock doesn't paint the philosophical concept in a terribly positive light. However, almost as though playing the devil's advocate, the sequel is poised to further demonize the ideals of altruism, a concept that is as near to a polar opposite as could be possible. Altruism isn't so much as a philosophical concept as it is an ideal; one that focuses on a general sense of benevolence and utilizat..."
"As of this writing, we’re already three weeks into 2010. The “new” year is already practically ancient, and pretty soon we’ll have run out of time to make wild, erratic, entirely factual predictions about things that will happen over the next 11 months. So with January nearly over, we’re going for the jugular and answering the question that’s on everyone’s mind: between the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and PC, which gaming platform will claim victory by the end of this year.
Experts antici..."
""With word coming today that BioShock 2 now has four different development houses (2K Marin, 2K Australia, Digital Extremes, Arkane Studios) working on the title, the question must be asked: What’s wrong with BioShock 2?""
"Infinity Ward is arguably the king of first person shooters. After producing the stunning Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, they are hard at work getting there latest game, Modern Warfare 2 ready for release in November."
"With fear of sounding like an old grouch, I recall days when the Internet was not so popular, or even not popular at all. For the video game world, this carried with it one wonderful positive: mystery. It's not that print media was completely free of giving us some juicy details months (even years) before we played a game, but it retrospect, it seems it was more tastefully done, and well-orchestrated, as opposed to what the rabidly curious nature of the Internet produces."
"It's almost 2 weeks until the Electronic Entertainment Expo for 2009 and it is hyping up to be one of the best yet. After the less than great few years E3 have had with a smaller and less exciting environment, publishers and developers a like are looking forward to showing off their future products. Here are a few of the many notable events and products which you should get excited about - whether they happen or not is another question?"
"So, we've heard the devs' opinions on BioShock 2. Unsurprisingly, they like their own game. But as Charlie pointed out in the intro to that feature, even the biggest BioShock fan must be skeptical. And that's where I come in.
Let’s just get one thing straight from the start. I adore BioShock. Seriously. To the degree that I could quite happily get into a knife fight to defend its honour. It’s a rare indulgence of the universe for a game to come along which seems to have been so perfectly d..."
OXCGN writers do their usual investigative digging and look at the new Bioshock 2: Sea Of Dreams Trailer as well as the excellent viral site, There's Something In The Sea.
Go check it out, and the walk-through video unearthing the various reports, from police, FBI, Interpol as well as first hand encounters. Definitely worth investigating the deeper depth of the underwater world of Rapture
![Box shot of BioShock 2 [North America]](http://i.neoseeker.com/boxshots/R2FtZXMvUEMvQWN0aW9uL1Nob290ZXI=/bioshock_2_frontcover_small_WRi0rDocmcgKxga.jpg)