IGN: Skyrim. What's Their Point at PlayStation's Expense? (Gaming)

Its not really of us to attack someone else for a stated opinion though, sometimes they need to be called out. The question is really, whom has the guts to do so? So, I guess we're going to be the ones to step in and say something about it. "So... My friends, who are reporters, tell me that there's absolutely nothing in the word that makes their editors day like controversy and bad news. So, to all our esteemed members of the Press I say: "You're Welcome." -- Jack Tretton (CEO/ Sony Computer Entertainment America)He goes on: "To our third-party publishing partners, you guys have been with us for over fifteen years making tremendous games and I know the network outage was costly to you., and what's been incredibly inspiring is your support...

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'The Last of Us.' Why This Excites Me (PS3)

PS3 Over the weekend, Naughty Dog have announced their newest game coming from a secret second team at their Santa Monica Studios. We've learned about the basic setting for the story, the globe-trotting nature as well as our protagonist. We've learned that famed BEST GRAPHICS developer Naughty Dog will be developing the game that will obviously be exclusive to the PlayStation 3. We've learned that Ellie will be voiced by Ashley Johnson of 'Growing Pains' so many years ago, man has she grown, and Joel will be voiced by Troy Baker of Two-Face fame from Batman: Arkham City. Both of which will be covering their own mo-cap as well. (Nothing however, has been said of Nolan North as to whether he will play a character in the game and stay on...

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Metal Gear Rising is About Revenge and Vengance (PS3, XBOX)

PS3 XBOX Even though the trailer had leaked before the VGA's took off, Hideo Kojima still took stage to announce that speculations and rumors would come to a halt concerning the direction that Metal Gear Rising would be taking in the future closing out the night with its trailer at the Spike VGA's last weekend and I think that viewer's were completely shocked by the announcement and since the trailer's release, the forum's and comment sections have been abuzz as to exactly what was shown. Metal Gear Rising has been retitled: "Metal Gear Rising: Revengence" and has been given a sort of 'Megadeath' look to the games logo and the trailer's audio track sounded like something I would have heard when I was seven or eight watching a commercial...

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How Will 'The Last of Us' Fare Against Uncharted?(PS3)

PS3 Well, it seems that those crazy dogs down in Santa Monica at Naughty Dog Inc. are at it again this time working on 'The Last of Us' that's obviously, exclusive to the PlayStation 3. It appears to run on the same Naughty Dog Engine that Uncharted ran on and by the looks of the trailer shown at the VGA's, tells of a girl named Ellie, who seriously looks like Ellen Page and may be voiced by her? Eh? No? Alright... and Joel, a guy that looks sort of like Dom Santiago from Gears of War 3 and is going to be a zombie survival game that we thought was rumored to be made my Epic Games as they may have hinted so long ago. Naughty Dog is therefore apparently hard at work on a zombie sort of game, which we've seen a lot of in the past. Yet, it...

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BioWare's Next Project Is For EA: Command & Conquer (PC, PS3, XBOX)

PC PS3 XBOX Who in the world would have ever expected BioWare to contract out a game for Electronic Arts to follow up their Mass Effect franchise? What does EA have BioWare up to? Well, BioWare will be learning how to use a new Engine altogether using EA's not Crytek Engine 3, but using and promoting Dice's Frostbite 2 which is really impressive. While nothing has been announced as far as platform goes, it looks like primarily PC for now but, that doesn't mean that PlayStation Move can't be integrated into the game as well as Kinect functionality. Heck, the game would even work well with Nintendo's Wii U controller selecting units and guiding them using A STYLUS! Sync the PlayStation Vita to the PS3 to work likewise. You don't always need...

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What Our Game of the Year Was and Why We Felt It Deserved 'Game of the Year!' (3DS, ANDROID, iOS, PC, PS3, VITA, WII, XBOX

By Neal "NeoMahi" Evans "There are many that may come close to the crown and the glory thereof but, to come close is just never good enough. To be crowned King, to win the Gold Medal, you can never come close; because to come close is to hit the line or straddle that line and when you straddle that line, there's always that chance you can still falter. No, coming close is never good enough, you always need to be spot on. Those that are spot on, are ALWAYS the champions that never say 'DIE.' " So its that time of the year and the XZONE has been really excited to go through the process of selecting our FIRST EVER 'Game of the Year.' But, before we go into all of that, its extremely important to us that we first thank all those who helped...

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Epic Games Announces Fortnite

360 PS3 Wii Cliff Bleszinski was at the VGA's tonight to announce their big announcement which we discovered is titled Fort Nite. While we don't know exactly who within Epic Games will be developing it or whether Epic Games themselves will be developing. It almost looks like it could be a downloadable game. While nothing was made mention as to which platform or whether it would intergrate motion control like Kinect, PlayStation Move or Wiimotion Plus or Wii U, we've yet to discover. Nether-the-less, is this the Zombie game rumored to come from Epic? It wasn't announced as a PS3 exclusive, again no platform was mentioned for the game so we'll have to find out in the coming weeks. But, here you go. Epic Games "Fortnite." Fortnite From Epic...

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