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Sun, May 22, 2011 | 16:45 BST

Saturday Shorts: Kain, SR3, LBP2, Zelda timeline, Vaz

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Loads of stuff out of Japan today, and loads of stuff regarding Sony as well. However, there was more stuff. Get that stuff in short-form after the break, and stuff.

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Fri, Feb 18, 2011 | 06:33 GMT

FrontierVille creator: Hardcore games aren’t going away, but new opportunities elsewhere

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Social gaming this, social gaming that. It’s a topic near and dear to many developers’ hearts, but it couldn’t be further from hardcore gamers’. The resultant reaction, then, sounds something like this: “Boring casual games are killing real games. Hardcore vs. casual. Good vs. evil!”

However, FrontierVille creator Brian Reynolds – once the lead designer on games like Civ 2 and Rise of Nations – doesn’t see a battle or an opposition. Just change.

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