Counting down the top 10 video game heroes of all time was more difficult than I anticipated. When I was 5 years old there video game heroes did not even exist, unless you count a pong paddle as a hero. Over the past 30 years video games have become a cultural phenomenon, and as video games started to approach Hollywood movies in terms of production quality, characters we can identify with have become more prevalent. That does not mean that our list of the top 10 video game heroes of all time...
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There are some around the net that have recently suggested that we are fast approaching the era of Peak Mobile. They reason that with the recent arms race in the exploding smartphone industry we’ve swiftly reached the point where phones are so powerful (eg: sporting quad core processors and upwards of 3 gigs of RAM) that users will no longer have a compelling reason to upgrade when the latest and greatest phone comes down the pipeline. Their theory is a valid one, and I do believe we...
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The 2000s was a massive decade for the video game business. Over that span video games overtook movies as an entertainment medium, with some of the most powerful game franchises earning hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. That ten year span saw PC software giant Microsoft throw their hat in the video game ring with the successful launch of their Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles. Nintendo faded in the early part of the decade, but came back stronger than ever following the reason of their...
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