CD Projekt Red - The Good Guys Of Game Development

It'll be no surprise to you that gaming is big business. In this current generation of gaming, development budgets are huge, marketing budgets are bigger and the incentive for financiers to recoup their investment has never been greater. This has lead to an annoying disparity for gamers over the last few years. It started with DLC on the last console generation, downloadable chunks of a game that we were encouraged to pay over the odds for to...

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Why You Should Play P.T. While You Can

So news came out over the weekend that the upcoming Silent Hill reboot, Silent Hills, has been cancelled. Co-director Guillermo Del Toro dropped the news at a conference and the game's IRL star, The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus, confirmed that the game wasn't going to be made. This, of course has caused a lot of upset for people around the world who were looking to a proper, scary as hell reboot of the now stagnant Silent Hill franchise. Of course,...

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Are We Undermining The Quality Of Modern Games?

So the saying goes, opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one. Everyone is a critic to some degree and everyone wants to have their opinions heard. It's human nature and these opinions can create some of the best and most interesting debates, especially when you have two opinions that are opposed but equally passionate. But if we focus primarily on gaming, you only need to have a cursory glance across the comments sections of Eurogamer or IGN...

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Are Social Features Ruining Gaming?

The internet is a wonderful thing. The world is getting smaller every day as it gets easier and easier to communicate across the world in an instant. This in itself has been such a wonderful thing for the human race as we're all now closer than ever. I myself have friends across the world from Canada to Australia who I talk to more than I do with the friends I have who live in the same town as me. With the surge in popularity of social networks...

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The Gadget Addicts Blog: Some Thoughts

Hi there. This site has been pretty inactive for nearly two years, in fact I believe the last post I made on here was coverage of the iPhone 5S release announcements. A lot has happened in that time. Since then, I've largely abandoned the gadgety end of my output, focusing primarily on the gaming side of things and growing my YouTube channel. At this point I'm approaching 100,000 views and well on my way towards 1000 subscribers. Some of you will be sat there saying "so why are you still The Gadget Addicts if you're not going on about gadgets?"...

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Apple Announces New iPad Air and A Host Of New Updates

Well, that was a busy conference wasn't it? An hour and a half of nothing but updates to Apple's non-iPhone ranges. We've got a lot to cover, so let's get going:iPad Air:Firstly, updates to the iPad range. The new iPad air is the first major redesign of the iPad since the iPad 2:The iPad Air is thinner, lighter and more powerful than any previous model. At just over 7mm thick it's only marginally thicker than the iPad mini, but the big statistic...

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Apple Media Event Tonight

At 10am PST (6pm UK time) Apple CEO Tim Cook will once again take to the strage at Cupertino and provide us Apple geeks with more to salivate over.What can we expect though?Rumours are abound that the iPad 5 and iPad Mini 2 will be formally revealed today. Since the iPhone 5S was released, the rumour mill has been going ballistic about thinner, lighter iPads and more powerful Minis.It's also widely expected that the redesigned Mac Pro will get a...

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