Megabits of Gaming

December 2010

Articles published by Megabits of Gaming in December 2010.

01 Dec 2010

10 most overrated games of this generation

It’s happened to every single gamer at some point. You buy a game that's had an endless stream of positive reviews in magazines and online, is ever present in the online

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01 Dec 2010

The Call Of Duty Effect

I found myself queuing on a bitter November night outside my local Gamestation, the clock crawling its way agonizingly towards midnight. It was a pretty long queue, a cro

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01 Dec 2010

Gaming gifts and how to justify them

The world is in financial crisis, economies are wobbling, deficits are mounting (don’t worry, this isn’t a political rant)… but it’s also Christmas time – the season of g

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01 Dec 2010

Megabits' pick of: underrated games

When assembling our recent Top Ten most overrated games (which some of you found rather controversial) we set a minimum level of entry: to qualify as being overrated it h

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01 Dec 2010

Panorama: Addicted To Games airs on BBC

The ‘games addiction’ debate goes primetime for British audiences tonight. The BBC’s Panorama series tackles the issue, which at the very least is sure to get gamers and

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01 Dec 2010

Review: Dance Central

The Kinect is a very special kind of hardware, both identical and polar opposite to the motion options of the Wiimote and Playstation Move. All three of them involve some

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01 Dec 2010

Review: Donkey Kong Country Returns

I’ve learned over the past year or so that making a retro-driven video game throwback is not quite as easy as it seems. Merely applying new textures for HD television scr

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01 Dec 2010

Review - Fallout: New Vegas

Fallout: New Vegas is the much awaited follow up to 2008's brilliant and addictive Fallout 3, and I have to say I haven’t been disappointed. Although you find yourself in

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01 Dec 2010

Review: Gran Turismo 5

Remember feeling goosebumps all those years back in 1997 when you first played Gran Turismo on the PlayStation? There was a sense that games simply couldn’t get any bette

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01 Dec 2010

Review - Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit

Welcome to Seacrest County. Please drive safely. Everybody likes cops and robbers, right? It’s a tried and tested formula that’s been reworked for decades… For those of u

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01 Dec 2010

Review - RDR: Undead Nightmare

Yup. It’s a zombie game. I need another beer. Some corporate executive at Take-Two made a trip to Toronto one day and attended our annual zombie march. (And yes, Toronto

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01 Dec 2010

Screenshots: Forza Motorsports 4

Forza Motorsports 4 is coming... and judging by this rather tasty announcement trailer, Gran Tursimo 5 should be worried... There's scant information at present but the g

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01 Dec 2010

Should you get yourself Kinected?

Staring back at me as I write this sits my shiny new Kinect camera - Microsoft's new gadget that brings motion control to the Xbox masses. The larger-than-you'd expect un

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01 Dec 2010

Sweet 16 for Sony's PlayStation

Remember those halcyon days when SEGA and Nintendo fought it out to dominate the world of gaming, when the Master System and Megadrive were pitted against the NES and SNE

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01 Dec 2010

The Twelve Achievements of Christmas

Have a quick trawl back through the weekly sales charts for this quarter and you get a pretty clear idea of what games are going to be under the Christmas tree-since the

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01 Dec 2010

VIDEO: Dance music gives nod to 8-bit era

Check out this fantastic music video that pays homage to some of the greatest retro classics. Avicii & Sebastien Drums have crammed plenty of old favourite 8-Bit games in

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01 Dec 2010

VIDEO: Geek and Gamer Girls music video

Following on from us stumbling upon the music video that features some 8-Bit classics we mentioned a few days ago, Megabits has uncovered this funky tune. EMBED-Geek and

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