In 2006, the author of The Player of Games, once famously missed a deadline because he was busy playing Civilization.
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Indeed it was, and now with the inclusion of the mode in the next God of War, it just might be the last bastion of single player games that has fallen to the lure of online play.
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Part of my job involves reporting the Friday sittings of the Commons, when private members bills are debated - and Mr Nuttall has emerged as an enthusiastic player of the tactical games played by a group of Conservative back-benchers to kill off many of those bills (they see it as an exercise in legislative hygiene, stopping what they see as unnecessary and burdensome bills).
Indeed, Okposo has been the Islanders' best player through the first three games of this surprisingly competitive series, which Pittsburgh led 2-1 entering Tuesday.
Victoria Azarenka certainly looked like the world's No. 1 player in winning 12 of the last 14 games in her first-round match against Alberta Brianti.
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Michigan point guard Trey Burke, the Big Ten player of the year, tallied 206 touches in two games this weekend, according to SportVU data, and the Wolverines wouldn't mind if he had even more.
Will customers who have purchased the most games, or even certain types of games, be considered as a test player for the Steam Box?
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One of the most popular solitaire games, Tomb Raider, does this by putting the player in control of a comely adventuress who must both act out a role in a story involving a search for treasure and engage in more straightforward video-game fighting.
It was initially expected that he would miss the first three games of the championship, but the Bath player has said there is a chance he could be fit again in time to face Italy at Twickenham on 12 February.
It was the four-time world player of the year's 34th league goal in 22 games.
However, those versions lack the two-player option, quite possibly the most appealing feature of GameCam interactive games.
He is the type of player who can make the difference between you winning and losing games.
This is why I appreciated Spec Ops: The Line so much - not because I fully agree that we, the player, are complicit in the acts of violence we commit within video games.
Arsenal striker Gervinho put his team ahead in the 21st minute with his second goal of the tournament, but the Elephants needed to wait until two minutes from the end before two-time African player of the year Toure curled in his second in two games.
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The penalties for a Circumvention under Article 26 range from team fines to player fines to forfeited draft picks and games to the voiding of SPCs and even suspension of a team employee, player or player agent.
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David Cage, Quantic Dream: Getting the player emotionally involved is the holy grail of games.
We continue to see the power of our player network, launching three games, each achieving top 10 status with more than 6 million daily players.
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The ride, for now, is showing no signs of slowing for Vanek, only the sixth Sabres player to reach 20 points through his first 10 games of a season.
They said that characters who had died during previous games in the series, as a result of player actions, would not be present in ME3, and that other actions in previous games could also lead to the death of supporting characters in the game.
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Another concern many fans have raised is that with the advent of an MMO, Bethesda will stop focusing on its single-player games in the franchise.
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The Toy Box in Disney Infinity may be similar to LittleBigPlanet, but I love the idea of more games building off of player interaction and collaboration.
Buck became only the fourth major league player in at least 92 years to reach 19 RBIs in the first 10 games of a season, according to STATS research dating to 1921.
As the largest seller of video games on the planet, GME has more information than any other player and benefits from seeing data across multiple publishers and platforms.
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The Vikings are betting that he's going to return to the durable player that played in all 16 games from 2008-10, when he became one of the productive and reliable receivers in the league.
Horizon unleashes the power of Windows 8 and brings multi-player games to life with its gigantic screen, dynamic graphics and 10-finger touch.
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Details of an immersive video games display system that projects images of the title's environment around a player's room have been revealed in a US patent belonging to Microsoft.
His stay in New York reached its nadir during these playoffs, when the highest paid player in baseball was routinely replaced by 40-year old Raul Ibanez in the late innings of tight games.
Some of the new elements include the addition of neutral zone sites like Cowboys Stadium for big games and introducing more on-field vignettes that capture player chatter and more of the atmosphere that separates the college game from the pro product.
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Context is what's going to make this next generation of games that much more involving for the player.
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