Category: "Editorials"

Will The Sony NGP Be Able To Compete Against Nintendo’s 3DS?

With the huge announcement overnight, people are deftly excited of Sony’s evolution of the PSP. The Next Gen Portable, or more likely the PSP2, offers everything the original handheld possessed but seemingly improves on it. It sure looks like this is going to be a killer device, but does it have enough steam to take on Nintendo’s reigning champ and its successor to the DS?

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GameBlurb’s Most Wanted: February 2011

February is for lovers…lovers of games where you kill everything in sight.

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Metal Gear Ranked: The Top Games In The Metal Gear Saga

I wonder if Hideo Kojima ever knew how big a franchise Metal Gear would become. After 7 games, the series continues to chug on whether people want it or not and each iteration always ends up being a stellar addition. But which ones shine the most? Which game provided the best all around Metal Gear experience? GameBlurb presents: Metal Gear Ranked.

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GameBlurb’s Thumbs Up/Down: Top 10 Gaming Villains

Let’s take a look back at the best antagonists in gaming history…

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GameBlurb: You Pick ‘Em! MegaCon 2011

Feel like dressing up someone you have never met in an outfit that will humiliate them? Well do we have the opportunity for you!

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The Evolution Of Tron

Instead of making another full-blown review on just Tron Evolution, we decided that it only seemed fair to review all Tron games, just in case you either don’t know/understand the hoopla or maybe missed one and are thinking of backlogging.

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The Case For CES Irrelevance

It is time to come to grips with the facts: The Consumer Electronics Show is ready to be quietly ushered into extinction…

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Gaming Resolutions 2011 – 14 Games You Must Play

“Oh no, now I have to join a gym!” “How in the world am I going to afford that trip to Italy?” “I have to learn Spanish now? I don’t want to learn Spanish now!” “Why in the world did I say I’d wear a Chicken Suit to my cousin’s wedding, why?!?!?”
Avoid these situations with our three top five lists of games to make your New Years Resolution.

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Mass Effect 2 Comparisons: The IGN Factor

The demo of Mass Effect 2 was released for the PlayStation 3 on Tuesday, December 21st and spawned a plethora of screenshot and video comparisons from the gaming community. GameBlurb was the first to release our Versus feature and was soon followed by Face-Offs, Head2Heads and other independent comparisons. But no matter the source of the comparison, there was a common consensus and three letters that were consistently brought up in the debate…”It doesn’t look like IGN”. We beg to differ…

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GameBlurb’s New Year’s Resolutions For Gamers

Ahh 2011…You are nearly upon us and it is the time of year where the chubby masses promise to slender down FOR GOOD this year! Well, I figured that I would skip the yearly dance of trying to get ripped and focus on some resolutions that I know I can accomplish: one’s that mainly involve sitting on the couch and minimally moving less than half of my fingers…

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Who Will Win The 2011 Gaming War?

2011 is looking to be a great year for gamers, but which company will hold their head high over the slaughter remains of their competition?

War…War never changes.

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Your Guide To The Region Of Skyrim

When Bethesda came out to make the announcement for the next Elder Scrolls game, I couldn’t help myself from bursting out with excitement. Other than a CGI trailer it seems like there is little we know about Skyrim. Not so fast! There’s enough lore about Skyrim for you to feed yourself on and you can even find it in Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

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iPhone Games: Too Cheap?

I’m not writing about games like Angry Birds or Bejeweled as these were designed with a cheap price point in mind. No, I mean games like The Sims 3, Chaos Rings, and Street Fighter IV. Read on to see why their quality suffers to give you that three dollar price tag and what could be done about it.

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GameBlurb Gift Wrap-Up: October/November

So your wallet maybe tight and there’s a huge pile of games out there on the shelf this month. You don’t know what to get? GameBlurb is here to help you with you ease your holiday shopping pains with our Monthly Wrap Ups for October and November!

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Welcome To The Uncanny Valley

Over the past 25 years, the videogame industry has pushed the limit on how to play video games: controllers that fit in your hand, vibrate, play wirelessly, and even capture your motions…the next big step forward will be graphically: characters so realistic that we will forget that we are manipulating a digital protaganist. While this sounds like an amazing step forward, the idea may actually harm humanity at large.

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Spike VGA Winners…Read It Here First!

So, have you been sitting in anticipation for the upcoming Spike Video Game Awards? I know I have, so I decided to get a jump on the voting public and give you the results a few weeks early!

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Thumbs Up/Down – Top 10 Locations for AC3

I must apologize for the Assassin’s Creed heavy posting today…I have been looking forward to this game since I first heard about it earlier this year. However, my impending joy of playing AC Brotherhood is eclipsed only by my desire to play AC III!

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