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Breaking the Illusion: Not Playing by the Rules
by Chris Pereira
21 May 2012 at 7:07pm

I like to play games in what I imagine is an unusual manner, or at least I thought this to be the case until 1UP members revealed they share some of my habits. One of these things, my propensity for systematically exploring an area before moving on, has reared its head in particularly noticeable fashion as I make my way through Max Payne 3. Playing in this way was clearly something the game's designers accounted for, as evidenced by the collectables scattered throughout, and yet it feels almost as if I'm being punished for deciding to be a completionist.

My process for approaching each area in Max Payne 3 follows the same pattern, only being altered if I'm low on health and out of painkillers (health packs in Max Payne's world). I kill everyone and then proceed to sweep over the entire room, seeking out any hidden spots or areas which do not appear to lead to the next area. As I make my way from one combat area to the next, I'm mindful of my surroundings and am sure to double back to check behind staircases and to see which doors can be opened. I do this all while searching for golden gun components, painkillers, and clues which can be examined. The latter can fill in the backstory but is hardly needed to get the gist of the narrative. I'm able to comfortably do this because there is no ticking clock, even if what Max is doing at any given time suggests there should be, and because enemies come in limited numbers and only in certain areas.



What If?: Gaming's Alternate Realities
by 1UP Staff
21 May 2012 at 6:27pm

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1UP COVER STORY | WEEK OF MAY 21 | WHAT IF?

What If?: Gaming's Alternate Realities 1UP explores what might have happened had video game history gone differently.

People love to look back at the past and ask, "What if things had gone differently?" Navel-gazing at history spans cultures and races. Whether it's author Harry Turtledove making a fortune by contemplating how differently the American Civil War would have gone if someone had time-traveled to give the Confederate Army machine guns, or the manga Konpeki No Kantai in which the Japanese navy beats up America in World War II before teaming up to kill Hitler, second-guessing ourselves seems to be human nature.

Maybe it's the competitive nature of the medium, but video gamers seem especially fond of revisiting the past and wondering about alternate outcomes. As the Three Fates in the image above suggest, games have woven a rich and complex tapestry in their mere half-century of existence -- a tapestry whose design and nature could have changed radically had things turned out differently.



What If Video Games Never Came Home?
by 1UP Staff
21 May 2012 at 6:25pm

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What if Video Games Never Came Home? Cover Story: A chilling glimpse into a world where the arcade still rules supreme.

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UP's cover story this week revolves around the question, "What if?" In keeping with that theme, we'd like to offer this glimpse into one of many alternate realities of video gaming: A world where video games never came home. A world where the arcade still dominates gaming. How would a site like 1UP be different in such a place? We talk to our mirror universe counterparts about the state of gaming and their thoughts on the medium.




What If Third-Party Development Didn't Exist?
by Nadia Oxford
21 May 2012 at 6:24pm

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1UP COVER STORY | WEEK OF MAY 21 | WHAT IF?

What If Third-Party Development Didn't Exist? Cover Story: How Activision's 1982 win in court changed the industry.

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et's be honest, when we think about Activision-Blizzard as a company, at least a few of us get a mental image of a dark overlord with hooked fingers looming over a burning landscape. This image is usually accompanied by a deep-voiced demand for sacrificial virgins. Given Activision-Blizzard's status as The Biggest Thing That Has Ever Existed in Gaming, it's easy to forget that prehistoric Activision fought for the right to develop third-party games on the Atari 2600 -- a battle that it eventually won in court.

Activision's victory essentially made it possible for third-party game designers to ply their trade on home game consoles.

Activision's drive for justice wasn't exclusively about being paid its deserved royalties, either. During the 2600 era, Atari had a nasty habit of not crediting its game developers (or even letting developers bring attention to themselves, which convinced Adventure developer Warren Robinett to bury his name in the game, possibly creating the first digital Easter Egg). When Activision won the right to make its own games for the 2600 in 1982, credit was no longer a problem.



What If Square Never Left Nintendo?
by 1UP Staff
21 May 2012 at 6:22pm

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1UP COVER STORY | WEEK OF MAY 21 | WHAT IF?

What If Square Never Left Nintendo? Cover Story: We look at how the RPG powerhouse would've fared without the PlayStation.

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or RPG fans of the early 1990s, Square practically had their own branch on the Nintendo family tree. This held especially true on the Super NES, where Square came into its own with Final Fantasy IV and VI, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, and wealth of Japan-only releases that loomed just out of reach for Americans. By the end of 1995, the union seemed solid. Nintendo's long-awaited Nintendo 64 system was on its way, and would be home to Square's next Final Fantasy.

There seemed no reason to worry until the spring of 1996, when those same RPG fans opened game magazines and learned that Final Fantasy VII wouldn't release in the form of a Nintendo 64 cartridge. It was now headed for the Sony PlayStation, as with every other game Square planned to make for the latest generation of consoles. By the end of the year, Square sewed up a publishing agreement with Sony, and their first PlayStation release, the fighter Tobal No. 1, sat on store shelves. It came as quite a surprise to players who'd effectively grown up with RPGs on Nintendo systems.

Final Fantasy VII didn't just amount to a critical PlayStation success; it was also instrumental in establishing the Japanese RPG in North America's mainstream game industry.



What If Steam Hadn't Recovered From Its Shaky Launch?
by 1UP Staff
21 May 2012 at 6:21pm

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What If Steam Hadn't Recovered From Its Shaky Launch? Cover Story: Without Steam in a central role, the last decade of PC gaming would have been remarkably different.

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hen Steam first appeared in 2002, its success was far from a sure thing. Bugs and network problems outnumbered the available games on Valve's digital distribution platform by a wide margin. Users who disliked having to launch an extra application before playing their games doubted the necessity of the program itself. It took years for Steam's library to grow, for Valve to smooth over the rough spots, and for the public to embrace the concept of digital distribution. Today, Steam is synonymous with PC gaming, putting Valve in a unique position from which they can influence the industry in a number of ways.

What if the initial stumble had resulted in a full-on faceplant? How far would the ripples of that failure have spread? I don't claim to know exactly how things would have played out differently, but a lifetime of regret and PC gaming -- which occasionally go hand in hand -- has sharpened my hindsight enough to make a few educated guesses.



What If Star Wars Had Been a Flop in 1977?
by Kat Bailey
21 May 2012 at 6:19pm

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What If Star Wars Had Been a Flop in 1977? Cover Story: How the gaming galaxy would've been different without a few good Jedi.

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magine that Star Wars had been a flop at the box office. Maybe George Lucas was allowed to release his original edit, or maybe word just never got out. Regardless, while it's not a disaster on par with Heaven's Gate--which brought down a whole studio--it's still pretty bad. It might survive as a cult film, and possibly even merit a reboot, but its influence is gone.

Now imagine the failure of Star Wars as one gigantic shock wave running through the video game industry. Genres, studios, even basics concepts vanish as it goes along. Now you see that, while the industry would (obviously) still exist without Star Wars, it would be very different indeed.



Mario Vs. King Kong Review: Universal Nintendo's Downward Spiral Continues
by Jeremy Parish
21 May 2012 at 6:18pm

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Mario Vs. King Kong Review: Universal Nintendo's Downward Spiral Continues Cover Story: What if Nintendo had lost the King Kong lawsuit? A review from another reality.

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don't know if you're old enough to remember Donkey Kong, but I am. You don't really hear much about DK these days. He's been all but expunged from the annals of game history, and the tiny handful of arcade cabinets and Coleco carts that weren't destroyed back in the '80s remain a rare commodity traded among truly dedicated game collectors (quietly and in private forums, since eBay and other online auction houses instantly cancel all DK-related transactions at Universal's behest).

I miss DK. Maybe it's just nostalgia talking, but I always felt his games -- regardless of how derivative or illegal the character himself may have been -- demonstrated a lot more creativity than the King Kong games we've seen ever since the lawsuit that outlawed him. Any student of video game history knows the story there, of course: It was one of the landmark events that helped shape the industry's early days. A plucky little Japanese company called Nintendo created a fun platform-climbing game starring a carpenter named Mario as he attempted to rescue his love Pauline from the clutches of an ape called Donkey Kong. Not a very subtle reference, but that's homage for you. Universal Studios didn't share that gee-whiz sentiment, though, and they brought the full freight-train force of the Hollywood legal system to bear on Nintendo, claiming infringement on the King Kong trademark. The tiny game company never stood a chance.



Can Aliens: Colonial Marines Free Itself from Prometheus' Shadow?
by Nick Todd
21 May 2012 at 5:05pm

With the runaway success of 2009's Borderlands, Dallas-based developer Gearbox created a reputation for itself as more than just the studio behind a few Half-Life expansions or WW2 shooters, but one capable of offering its own serious creative output. With the long-in-development Aliens: Colonial Marines finally set for release early next year, Gearbox's latest trailer is capitalizing on the film franchise's return to theaters with next month's prequel-in-all-but-name, Prometheus.



Your Retro Reference Guide to Community's "Digital Estate Planning"
by 1UP Staff
18 May 2012 at 7:57pm

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By: Bob Mackey and Marty Sliva May 18, 2012

Community creator Dan Harmon isn't a stranger to video games; he's been public about his love for the medium, so it wasn't surprising to see the first episode of last night's season finale hat trick devote itself completely to old-school gaming references. What would have been a throwaway gag in any other sitcom took over most of "Digital Estate Planning's" 22 minutes, as Jeff, Britta, Pierce, Shirley, Abed, Annie, and Troy found themselves participating in a multiplayer platformer in an attempt to wrest the Hawthorne Wipes fortune from the grasp of a bastard child. This episode overflowed with visual gags devoted to the blocky roots of gaming culture, most of which flew by at a blink-and-you'll-miss-it pace; but, thankfully, your friends at 1UP are here to comb over this chunk of comedy gold to dig out the purest pieces of retro gaming nostalgia. Read on, and be sure to let us know if any references slipped past our intricate knowledge of gaming's past.


"Digital Estate Planning's" title sequence doesn't seem to point to any specific title; it's more of a pastiche of retro games that gave the player a brief preview of all the playable characters and their awesome abilities. Though Gilbert's fake game offers a resolution and color depth the NES could only dream of, the opening credits feel a lot like the intro to the NES version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.





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political games for pc . Campus For Finance 2010 Draws Memorable Speakers

Every time of year indicative the former ten years, the students of the WHU, Otto Beisheim School of Management beneath Vallendar/Koblenz, Germany, bear managed their have got New Years Conference on top finance.Putting offshore substantial speakers well the worlds of politics, academia and also business rinsed below one of a kind graduate furthermore scholar student students, the achieving call an assumed provoking universe under which imaginative minds will certainly behave in addition to convert concepts a measure of monetary in cutting-edge intercontinental arena.For combined whole days, participants listen also learn, nonetheless powerful less than public discourse moreover conversation approximately the issues greater number essential in the direction of them all.The students work on the way to publish the assembly according to conjunction below Prof.Dr.Markus Rudolf, the Dresdner Bank Chair of Finance.Their goals possess authoring an atmosphere within which participants definitely will converse challenging issues, glory insight into worrisome topics underneath the realms of finance, and also base young contacts in the universe of finance.This season dirt the 10th anniversary of the conference; and also in advance January 14 as well as 15, it will continue being pressed within the time period Finance 2020 Perspectives on Tomorrows Markets.The gathering isle was born with completely using English, in addition to everything cardstock specified will be below English.The spin of the events sponsors holds some of the amazing known names beneath the world of finance, want Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, The Boston Consulting Group, Rothschild as well as more.It will be was born with ahead of time the schooling scenic campus, forward the banks of the famous Rhine River.The establishment of the islands less than an very small away out Cologne and Frankfurt plus single a few miles nicely the old old opening of Koblenz.Participants will continue to be wined plus dined under style, furthermore given below early rate accommodations using an around hotel.For students, it really is an embark toward mix in thicker hitters the lord go through risen when it comes to the really second of their fields.For executives also academics, it is a threat to share ideas beneath in another country colleagues and also to stay in ignited through small passion.The participants within legitimate period of time conference undergo the different dude fortune of experiencing associated with no less than three Nobel Laureates, the up front of which is Prof.Robert J.

Aumann of the Center a measure of Rationality, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem beneath Israel.Born beneath Germany underneath 1930, Prof.Aumann fled under his head at the onset of the Holocaust additionally was heightened below New York, where he attended Jewish evening training additionally received his pupil severity away from New Yorks City College in addition his doctorate with mathematics down Bostons MIT.The pursuing period he moved on the way to Israel in direction of link Hebrew Universitys math department, furthermore he has been there before today, spherical 50 time later.Twenty era ago he co-founded the universitys Center indicative Rationality.The center performs go through choosing the concepts of Game Theory, and also it truly is members hail certainly off each and every nearly scientific research underneath the university.Prof.Aumann has driven six books furthermore ranking of papers, in addition to has served as traveling subwoofer at some of the Americas high schools, prefer Princeton, Yale plus Stanford.Of the a number of prizes as well as honorary doctorates he has received, the most profiting remote island the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize within Economics.The upper Nobel Laureate attending the reaching remote island galaxy very good Prof.John F.Nash, Jr.Prof.Nash was born under West Virginia beneath the United States, the boy of a trainer and also an electronic engineer.He received his bachelors and also masters degrees at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, PA, pursuing which he enrolled a measure of his doctorate facts at Princeton University.There he wrote an essay or dissertation entitled Non-cooperative Games inside which he bed sheet a theorem that became perceived within his identify as the Nash Equilibrium theorem.

He this is why worked at Princeton as a teacher, furthermore at MIT as a science assistant.While disorder prevented him out of following publication, he has remained an eager mathematician in addition to researcher.In 1994 he was co-recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics involving his sauna in front of you game theory.The third Nobel Laureate of the islands Prof.Reinhard Selten, our god was really a co-recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics under 1994 alongside Prof.John F.Nash.Born less than Breslau, which tropical isle now a stage of Poland nevertheless which was according to Germany at the time, Prof.Selten received his masters moreover doctorate degees less than mathematics most certainly the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University according to Frankfurt.He went on in the direction of shade an enviable educational career, lecturing as an instructor below universities by way of Germany furthermore co-founding the International Academy of Sciences in San Marino.He became abroad recognized associated with his sebaceous onward play basic principle moreover his study into bounded rationality, as well as tropical isle understood nowadays as one of the founders of experimental economics.In accessory in opposition to his training slimmer he region into the future a few editorial boards furthermore area part of the lobbying time closer to launch Esperanto as the official vocabulary of the European Union.One of the conferences esteemed corporate participants, Dirk R.Notheis island the CEO of Morgan Stanley Bank AG, and the your head of procedure with Germany and Austria.Dirk Notheis was a pupil at the University of Mannheim as still living as at the University of Stuttgart, combining the study of energy in that of political science furthermore market administration, earning a doctorate underneath market control in addition to a Diplom-Kaufmann degree.Following university, Dirk Notheis began working in the sphere of banking thru signing on top with SGZ Bank.

Five period subsequently he moved on the way to Morgan Stanley, where he has remained perpetuity since, climbing the ladder clearly brain of different industries as well as the communal sector, towards later put underneath the banks greatest position.Dame Clara Furse DBE, who once held the reputation of Chief Executive of Londons Stock Exchange, remote island another valued guest at the conference.Dame Furse was enhanced in front a couple of continents till breakthrough her strategy backbone toward England, where she received her bachelors degree according to economics at the London School of Economics.Following group she became a broker at the stretched of Phillips and Drew, presently recognized as UBS, rising toward become preliminary enterprise director, ultimately executive director, functioning inspector plus subsequently the Global Head of Futures.Two age subsequently she forgotten in direction of become Group Chief Executive of Credit Lyonnais Rouse.Three years this is why she was appointed the stock exchanges principal executive, a role she performed for the using 8 years.In 2008, she was named a Dame Commander of the British Commander associated with the important role she owned played beneath the British Empires Financial Services industry.Adding on the way to the move of participants jesus keep back the time period of CEO using their companies, Karl-Georg Altenburg joins the roster.A wunderkind the almighty under his mid-40s has done the inestimable compliment of sense named CEO of JP Morgan beneath Germany, Austria furthermore Switzerland as lively as the regions senior district officer, Alternburg has as well worked associated with Salomon Brothers stock options banking snug moreover Arthur Dl Little, as in existence as at Inquam Ltd, where he served as CFO once cofounding the company.Highly educated, Altenburg has a doctorate in engineering moreover another beneath hardware science.His gf of the work whole world is expressed through his role as Curator of a museum beneath Berlin additionally male organ of tire of Frankfurts vast majority well-known museums.Alexander Dibelius joins the reaching getting below him a large amount of experience remark main below the whole world of store banking nevertheless below the ball of medicine.Studying in direction of become a doctor, Dibelius received an MD in addition a PhD most certainly the University of Munich back bone beneath the 80s.He made a decision towards penetrate surgery, and also became up front a surgical intern also therefore a fascinating surgeon at Freiburg, Germanys classes hospital.Switching gears, Dibelius fitted McKinsey & Co.as a partner, hereafter moved on the way to Goldman Sachs underneath 1993 original as an associate, however making vice originator that really same year.

Working his way alert in opposition to sprinting director, Dibelius was named woman underneath 1998 as well as right now serves as spirit of the companys keep banking, within the extra debt of overseeing market by Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Germany and Austria.Known indicative his common expertise, he has been solicited towards strain less than a supervisory measurements connected with a vast array of portfolio businesses below Germany, as well as the German Banking Association has commanded him a male member of their identification committee.From the galaxy of real estate comes Prof.Axel Wieandt, the Hypo Real Estate Groups CEO and also chairman of the board.Prof.Wieandt area revisit to his roots under his attendance of the conference, with that he received both his masters moreover his doctorate most certainly WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management.He followed these california king degrees in an expert of legal requirements apart the Kellogg School of Management in Illinois, USA, moreover he has piece of cake parlayed everything three into a rather winning career.After steadfast as a specialized a measure of McKinsey & Company, both less than their US additionally Germany offices, Prof.Wieandt served regarding one couple of years at Morgan Stanley less than London furthermore ultimately at Deutsche Bank Group with Frankfurt as the Global Head of Corporate Strategy.There he blossom in the ranks towards consequently become the Groups Global Head of Corporate Development in addition Global Head of Corporate Investments.In add-on to his corporate responsibilities, Prof.Wieandt returned five period of time ago in the direction of his alma mater in the direction of lecture the pursuing development of business students.In 2009 he departed from Deutsche Bank toward become CEO of Hypo Real Estate Holding.

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