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Free-to-play game isn't particularly fun-to-play

Free-to-play game isn’t particularly fun-to-play

By Roy Herrera | October 21, 2012

With today’s economy, it is difficult to buy all of the most popular games on the market. As a result, game companies are not making as much money as they would like. Instead of making the consumer purchase the game at a full retail price, the game...

New bundle offers Doom game classics

By Roy Herrera | October 16, 2012

As Halloween gets closer, TV channels are showing marathons of popular scary movies like Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street. While the movies are great and scary, they can’t provide a frightening experience like a video game can. Survivor...

Apple rumored to unveil new iPad model in near future

By Roy Herrera | October 15, 2012

Is your iPod Touch screen too small? Is the iPad too big for your taste? Well, Apple came up with the perfect solution: the iPad Mini. While the name may not be official, this is the next product experts believe Apple will release in the very near future....

Reviews don’t always tell the whole picture

By Roy Herrera | October 14, 2012

When a new game comes out, people generally look for reviews to see if it’s any good. If the critics give it a high score, readers will most likely go out to purchase it. If it receives low ratings, people probably won’t purchase it. The problem with...

New NBA game offers extra features, modes

By Roy Herrera | October 8, 2012

With the NBA season just weeks away, there is no other way to get your daily dose of NBA basketball than to play NBA 2K13. Over the years, 2K Games has done a wonderful job making the best basketball simulation games on the market. With the September...

World of Warcraft expansion pack worth the time, money

By Roy Herrera | September 30, 2012

Last week, Blizzard Entertainment released the fourth expansion pack, Mists of Pandaria, to its beloved World of Warcraft, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game. Since the release of the previous expansion, Cataclysm, Blizzard lost about 2 million...

‘Avengers’ DVD offers audio commentary, other features

By Roy Herrera | September 25, 2012

One of the biggest summer blockbuster movies made its way to DVD and Blu-ray Tuesday. Marvel’s The Avengers unites beloved superheroes like Captain America (Chris Evans), Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo)...

iPhone 5 has improvements, drawbacks

By Roy Herrera | September 24, 2012

The highly anticipated iPhone 5 made its debut Friday. With customers starting to line up in front of Apple stores early last week, one can assume they were excited to get their hands on the newest version of the phone. Apple claims they have made various...