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The violent game debate is over
A year after Newtown, the industry is getting all the defense it needs from games it never wanted to make in the first place
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Game On: The Winners of 2013
From grassroots to giant robots - who ended the year at the top of their game?
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Game Over: The Losers of 2013
You charge too little and you charge too much for your games - and you want to own our living rooms? Here are the stumbles of the past 12 months
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Crowded Out: 2013 was the year the masses ruled
It no longer grabs the headlines it once did, but crowd funding showed in
2013 that it will be a powerful force in games for many years to come
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Let's Not Play - The Copyright Battle Turns Ugly
Intellectual property laws have failed to keep pace with change - now they're hurting both the rights holders and the content creators.
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Nintendo in the Firing Line
As PS4 and XB1 enjoy successful launches, comparisons with Wii U look stark - but Nintendo has a track record of confounding the doomsayers
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Fun Is Not A Metric
Developers and publishers can't tweak their way to entertainment, but need to focus on fun
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Is this the start of the Paymium generation?
New consoles, new business models - but the reception to "paymium" has been anger and outrage. Until its instigators start respecting their customers, that won't change
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Roundtable: What Will Be This Generation's Biggest Disruption?
With new consoles on the market, the GamesIndustry International staff looks at what could define this generation in the years ahead
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Blinking Lights of Death Herald The Next Gen
Two big console launches in a week - and we're all so old and cynical that all we care about is overheating hardware. Has the RROD fiasco scarred us so badly?
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The Next Generation Race is a Marathon, Not a Sprint
Sony can take pride in the opening-day success of PS4, but the next gen has a long way to go before it proves itself
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Xbox One Source promotion misleads, misfires
Microsoft's super-sized Xbox One marketing campaign insulting to fans' intelligence
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Roundtable: The Games That Defined This Generation
As we prepare for next-gen, the GamesIndustry International crew looks back fondly on some of the biggest innovations of the last eight years
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PS4 launch exclusives largely underwhelm reviewers
Critical Consensus: Resogun impresses, Killzone maintains, Knack disappoints
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The Massive Nintendo Paradigm Shift
Nintendo hasn't changed much, but the industry has changed massively - so we need to change our views on Nintendo
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The difference between a crash and an explosion
Why gaming's expansion shouldn't be haunted by the spectre of '83
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Xbox One, PS4 and the elusive dream of "good enough"
Excitement builds for new hardware, but their greatest competition may come from an unlikely source - the past
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How Sony Can Win the Next-Gen War
The [a]list daily looks at winning strategies for Sony in its multi-front battle to be number one in gaming
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Brazil: New Consoles Have It All To Play For
It may have the cheaper console, but Microsoft again fumbled its marketing message at the Brasil Game Show
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Still Catching 'em All
Pokemon's success speaks to Nintendo's strengths, proving the demand is still strong
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Bruce Wayne's Millions Can't Buy F2P Success
Game designer Ethan Levy examines why Warner Bros' Arkham Origins isn't matching the F2P stats of Injustice despite the popularity of Batman
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Let Slip the Watch Dogs
Ubisoft's delay won't impact the success of the next-gen consoles this Christmas - but one stumbling block does remain...
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PS4, Xbox One take "painful body blow" from Watch Dogs delay
Chris Morris looks at the ramifications of Ubisoft's last-minute delay of one of the hottest new IPs in the industry