Glossing over the mechanicals of the game, production, budgets and infrastructure, what jumped out was the values he assigned to the making of the popular shoot-em-up game: attitude and passion for the game were topped the list.

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The youngster had a superb game against the Tigers making several superb breaks out of defence and playing a major part in the Blues last-minute try.

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Around that same time, Antonick claims that EA began expanding the Madden game to new consoles and kept him out of the decision-making process.

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It's time for someone over at IDC to pop the champagne, as its 2007 projection about the end of rear-projection TVs turned out to be only a year off, now that the last company still making them has announced it's getting out of the game.

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Eighth seed Lopez edged the first-set tie-break before making the vital break in the ninth game of the second and served out for the match.

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Gerrard publicly apologised for the tackle immediately after the game and insisted he had attempted to pull out of making any contact with Naysmith.

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Cabrera, one of the more unheralded superstars in the game, stands out as the man making the most money among those who are statistically earning their pay.

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But Hearts saw out the remainder of the game - including five minutes of injury time - with Balogh making a comfortable save from Dods after substitute Jon Daly had laid off Caddis' clever pass.

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Just as you were cheerfully knocking out guards and stealthily making your way through a level, the game threw some kind of gigantic armored boss at you, shattering the fiction the game had established and forcing the player through some strange hoops before the narrative resumed.

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