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Extreme Console Makeover: The Best Redesigns
Console manufacturers never get it right the first time around. Whether it's too big, too ugly, too dim or devoid of memory, you can count on a redesign to right a system's wrongs. In honor of the Xbox 360 Elite, we've picked the ten best console redesigns ever.
- 03/28/2007
- Dave Rudden
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Top Ten Addictive Games of All Time
One more game. One more turn. One more play. One more minute. One more day. If you're a gamer, you know the sublime feeling of gamelock. In many ways, it's why we play games in the first place, right? With this in mind, here's a list of the 10 most addictive games of the last 10 years.
- 03/20/2007
- Games.net Staff
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BARF! Ten Games You Should Never Play While Drunk
Whether you're pounding some beers with friends at home, or capping off a night of drunken revelry, there are a few fun games that lose their appeal when your blood alcohol content grows. Here's some otherwise fun games that aren't recommended for when you're three sheets to the wind.
- 03/15/2007
- Dave Rudden
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Ten Biggest Gaming Breakups
Yeah, love is dandy and all, but it often ends in heartbreak. Whether it be a firing, company split, or a gaming couple calling it quits, these ten breakups affected more than just the unlucky couple--they changed the gaming industry. As Seinfeld has proven, there's no mutual breakups, so we've listed the dumper before the dumpee for each entry.
- 02/13/2007
- Dave Rudden
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Ten Best Butterface Games
In the real world, a butterface is an otherwise attractive woman with an ugly mug--everything looks nice "but her face". A butterface game is one that is that has ugly-looking graphics, but manages to impress with superior gameplay. These games may not look nice, but they have personality.
- 02/08/2007
- Dave Rudden
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Top Ten Gaming Annoyances
Like people who bite their nails or talk on their cell phones in public, video games have a couple of annoying habits that can sometimes affect, if not downright ruin, your enjoyment. Come along with us as we list ten gaming annoyances that drive us to distraction.
- 01/25/2007
- Tae Kim
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Ten Fine Next-Gen Firearms
With the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii offering new levels of immersion via high-def visuals and motion-sensitive controls, gamers can embark on amazing new adventures in gorgeous interactive environments. Also, the guns look freakin' fantastic now. Here's a list of the top ten firearms that will provide the real memories of this console generation.
- 01/19/2007
- Dave Rudden
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The Ten Best Apocalypses in Gaming
Shows like Heroes and Jericho are only realizing now what gamers have know for years... that the Apocalypse is freaking awesome. We've compiled the ten best instances of Armageddon and posted them from out of our top-secret bunker.
- 01/11/2007
- Dave Rudden
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Dude... sick! The ten worst bodily expulsions in games.
These may be byproducts of our bodies, but they're still gross. We've got the ten most disgusting things to come from the bodies of gaming's various digital creations. Which game will be number two?
- 12/14/2006
- Dave Rudden
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Top Ten Games Lost in the Holiday Shuffle this Year
With hundreds of games releasing during the holiday season, there's always a few games that fall through the cracks. Here's some would-be hits that picked the wrong time to come out.
- 11/29/2006
- Dave Rudden
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Top Ten Thanksgiving Traditions Translated to Games
Happy Thanksgiving from Games.net! To help celebrate the holidays, we've compiled a list of ten games to best prepare you for the many travails of Turkey Day.
- 11/22/2006
- Dave Rudden
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Top Ten Launch Titles of All Time
Launch titles. We're so quick to use them as the basis for a system's failure or success, but plenty of hit systems like the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS have survived without quality games out of the gate. Regardless, it's still nice to have a great game to play on day one. Here's our definitive list, including a title or two from this year's newcomers.
- 11/16/2006
- Dave Rudden
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The 10 Best Hip-Hop Game Soundtracks
While the film and game industries have been awkwardly attempting to mate for a good ten years now, the music biz has largely stayed within its historical confines. In the past few years, though, they've been making rapid progress, to the point where one couldn't imagine an EA Sports game without someone gettin' ill on the mic. Fight Night is particularly notable for its hip-hop influence, and it turns out that it's just one of many games that have brought muscular grittiness, conscious lyrics, and thug life odes into the homes of millions of gamers. Below is a choice selection of the best stuff we've seen yet.
- 09/15/2006
- Sid Shuman
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The Ten Best Underground Games
Some have already arrived. Others are waiting in the wings. Get the scoop on what you've been missing, and what you shouldn't miss.
- 08/30/2006
- Sid Shuman
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The 10 Most Important Modern Shooters
Quake, Doom. Duke Nukem 3D -- all senior citizens! It's time to make room for new blood, and these are the first-person shooters to do it. Here are the ten most innovative, influential, and downright important shooters of the modern era.
- 07/20/2006
- Sid Shuman
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