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EA Studio Showcase: Burnout Paradise

At last week’s EA Studio Showcase, GameCyte had the opportunity to sit down and try out the impending update to Burnout Paradise by Criterion Games. With EA’s Kevin O’Leary acting as our helpful GPS navigator, we were able to sit down and get some extended hands-on play with the game’s new motorcycles, and get answers [...]

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Straight From the Horse’s Mouth: Sponsored Sites That Trump Traditional Journalism

Aside from the occasional, unintentional leak, publicists basically control games journalism as we know it today. They can’t tell us how to think or stop us from criticizing their games, but to a large degree, they determine who gets what and goes where when they please. How?

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Enjoyment Optional, Part Two: Six Settings to Satisfy

Last week, we discussed seven games in which the options menu wasn’t merely a place to adjust your TV display, but rather the key to unlocking the full potential of some truly stellar titles. While the post was primarily meant to inform gamers of the remarkable possibilities they might have overlooked in their own collection, [...]

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Will DLC Finally Mean Something In Burnout Paradise?

Criterion’s creative director Alex Ward has been dropping lots of Burnout Paradise goodies this month, and if you clever newshounds have already heard that the sprawling Paradise is getting even larger thanks to a brand new series of islands, and that this archipelago will be totally free, then try this on for size:

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Zero Punctuation’s Yahtzee Rocks Our Socks Off; Interview at The Escapist

While we hope GameCyte will soon become your one-stop-shop for all things gaming, we recognize that (barring cloning — we’re working on it) there can be only one Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw. Thus it is without reservation that we recommend his uproarious and completely NSFW video podcast Zero Punctuation.

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