Category: 2013
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The Bit Socket Blooper Reel 2013
Well, nobody’s perfect…
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Games of the Generation – Part 4: The Sublime
In the age of the Romantic poets the idea of the sublime came to mean an overwhelming, almost religious feeling of awe in the face of nature; an intoxicating mixture of pleasure and fear. The Romantic poets and wealthy patrons flocked to the Alps in droves, and those snow capped wonders to them couldn’t have…
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Highly Questionable – An Appointment With Inevitability
James asks whether the video games industry’s battle for reality could end up in all-out war?
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Call of Duty: Ghosts season pass confirmed
Activision has announced the content on Call of Duty: Ghosts season pass. Retailing at £34.99, the season pass will include four downloadable map packs; Onslaught, Devastation, Invasion and Nemesis will be released episodically throughout 2014. “A four-part episodic Extinction experience” will also be available in the season pass, no details have be released about this…
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Bit Socket – Why 2013 has been the worst year in gaming for a long time
It’s time to drop some truth
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Games of the Generation – Part 3: The Heartfelt
No longer satisfied with the usual pretexts of captured princesses and alien invasions, as videogames matured they attempted to tell bolder stories and give players greater motivation and emotional investment in the gameplay. Over the last few years certain works have emerged to challenge the popular notion that games are mindless entertainment, standing up to…
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Bit Socket’s 12 Days of Christmas – NES Remix Challenge
The boys decide who deserves the title of Ultimate Nintendo Fan
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New Dead Rising 3 update causing problems for some
Upon booting up Dead Rising 3 you’ll likely be on the receiving end of an update notification telling you to download a bulky 5GB patch for your game. Great, right? Who knows what magical bounty lies within all these gigabytes? That’s an enormous size for an update to a game. Some have noted seeing visual…
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Games of the Generation – Part 2: The Intense
As a tactile, multi-sensory media, videogames are very good at getting under your skin. Whether it’s the sensory assault of Bayonetta, the twitch reflexes of shooters like Battlefield 3 or just the fact that the universe is about to be annihilated by Reapers, the most bombastic games grip you with a vice like intensity. And…
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InGame – Black Flag – A Companion Strategy
John finds the companion app for AC4 Black Flag to be more than it seems and shares his insights.