For reasons both good and bad, here are the ten games that started the most conversations or got the most press in 2010. These were the video games that shaped the year, and won’t soon be forgotten (even though some of them might want to be). In (more or less) chronological order, here we go… [Side note: It feels odd not to include a game from either Kinect or PlayStation Move on this list — both motion controllers garnered probably more attention than anything else in gaming this year — but this is a list of games, not hardware. And neither device has yet to have that one, defining game Read more »
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Overanalysis of Commander Shepard's success rate against insurmountable odds
Let’s talk about Mass Effect. And how Commander Shepard can overcome anything. When the universe needs saving, humanity (as well as the Batarian, Salarian, Krogan, Turian races) turn to no one else but Commander Shepard. Overcoming odds that the Citadel and the Illusive Man would call impossible, he was brought back from the grave to do a Chuck Norris against the forces of evil. Bioware’s script for Mass Effect stressed, from time to time, Shepard’s extraordinary ability to lead a team into the very gates of hell, through it, and back. It was the precise reason that the Illusive Man invested two years into bringing the commander back to life, Read more »








