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Sim Brother Experiment Day 4: The New House Guest

Another late night for over half of the house, but as the minutes ticked past each House-guest got weary and eventually went to bed. Only Obsidian remained, feeling fully refreshed from his good sleep. Obsidian was faced with a choice…

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Age of Conan: Unchained. Now free-to-play

Funcom, apparently not wanting to be left behind, have decide to make Age of Conan free-to-play under the name ‘Age of Conan: Unchanged’. They’ve tried free timed trials of a week; then they tried a ‘capped at level 20’ method.…

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Skyrim NPCs Are a Development Priority

According to Bethesda’s oracle and resident director, Todd Howard, the absolute focus of the Skyrim team right now is improving interaction between players and Skyrim NPCs. “The big things for us are still — and we still struggle with —…

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‘Prototype’ xBox 360 Game Review

Following on from the huge enjoyment I experienced from playing Batman: Arkham Asylum, I delved once again through the xBox 360 Platinum Hits shelf at my local video game score. With yet more sage advice from a mate, I picked…

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Sims 3 Sim-Brother Experiment

Akin to the popular reality TV program, Big Brother, I’m setting up a little Sims 3 experiment. I’ve created eight stereotypical Sims, I’ve turned up the AI and now I’m going to throw them in to a large house together…

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Sim Brother Experiment Day 1: It Begins

The first day of the Sim Brother Experiment. ***** Almost across the board, the first thing the house-guests did was to start gaping and gasping at the objects of the house. From the windows down to the big-screen television, the…