The word “forza” is Italian for “force,” an accurate description of Microsoft’s first-party racing franchise. Developed originally as the counterpoint to Sony’s Gran Turismo series, Forza has evolved significantly over the years, going from a super-simulator that ate casual gamers for breakfast into Forza Horizon, a game that masterfully blends simulation-like elements with arcade-infused accessibility. […]
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Racing games pre-date first-person shooters by years, with Pole Position appearing decades before Wolfenstein and Doom ever even entered into the franchise picture. Yet here we are, surrounded by FPS action, with racing titles appearing only sporadically to remind us of our collective need for speed. The challenge with the latest round of racing games
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For a little over a week now, I’ve spent my free time blowing up, crushing, drowning and tossing oversized inanimate objects to explode worms — and I had a ball doing so. Don’t be quick to judge me as a narcissistic lunatic just yet! I did all this through the latest Team 17 release “Worms
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There’s nothing stealthy about gamers’ love for the Assassin’s Creed series, apparently, as Ubisoft has announced that pre-orders for Assassin’s Creed III have broken every pre-order record for the publisher. Pre-orders of Assassin’s Creed III already have more than doubled those of last year’s Assassin’s Creed Revelations, Ubisoft’s previous pre-order record holder. Assassin’s Creed III
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Bethesda’s new game Dishonored, a first-person game that includes some Deus Ex-like elements, is getting three new DLC add-on packs for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. One will release in December, while the other two come in 2013. All Dishonored DLC will release at the same time on all three platforms; there will be no
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When Master Chief makes his Xbox 360 return in Halo 4 on November 6, another beloved feature will re-emerge on the console: the ‘season pass’ concept giving members discounted multiplayer maps for their up-front commitment to future downloads. Today, Microsoft announced the Halo 4 War Games Map Pass, which will give owners a 15 percent
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Dance Central 3 is one of those rare sequels that doesn’t try to break the mold, doesn’t provide much innovation from previous outings, makes only incremental improvements yet still delivers an outstanding experience. The Dance Central series has been one of the best-selling Xbox 360 Kinect games to date, so it doesn’t really need to
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There was once a day when basketball fans had their choice of video games, choosing between arcadey titles and simulations. That landscape has since dwindled to the point that there are now only two options, one of which (NBA Ballers) is as much gimmick as it is serious contender. As a result, NBA 2K13 has
Microsoft has been highlighting its goal of thinking differently with regard to software and hardware, but while gadget geeks may have been the first to cling to those comments, educators may actually see the most immediate results. And it may come from a most unusual source: video games. Specifically, Kinect Nat Geo TV, one of
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The current console generation has come full circle, it seems. Nintendo came out of the gate swinging, selling millions of Wiis to families everywhere while Sony and Microsoft battled it out for the older gamer with the PS3 and Xbox 360, respectively. Now Nintendo’s aiming high (in age) with the Wii U, while Sony and
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