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Review: Raskulls (XBLA) - windingdown.net

windingdown.net writes, "The singleplayer experience is packed with humor, over 50 levels, numerous unlockables and the multiplayer experience is an absolute blast to play for hours on end."

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Halfbrick cuts 41 jobs as it navigates "challenging period for the games industry"

"These changes are driven by organisational and strategic priorities, not individual performance," says mobile developer

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Halfbrick Studios is cutting jobs in Australia

The Jetpack Joyride developer said it is attempting to navigate a 'challenging period.'

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The Enduring Legacy of Xbox Live 1.0

Sure, there was online gaming back in the day but the modern age of online video gaming began almost twenty years ago with Xbox Live 1.0.

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Magog1759d ago

The origin of paid online.

PrimeVinister1759d ago

Lol it definitely deserves its mention

franwex1759d ago (Edited 1759d ago )

Haha. Yep. To be fair, I feel that it was actually worth it because it kept a good minimum standard. There was horrible lag back in the day and a lot of cheating/hacking. More so than today.

PrimeVinister1759d ago (Edited 1759d ago )

That is arguable seeing as how good similar PC services are these days. The lack of cheaters on console is the closed ecosystem rather than extra effort by MS/Sony

XbladeTeddy1759d ago

"To be fair, I feel that it was actually worth it because it kept a good minimum standard. There was horrible lag back in the day and a lot of cheating/hacking. More so than today."

The horrible lag back then was due to peole not having the speeds needed to run games, peoples internet speeds were all over the place. Hacking is as bad today, if not worse than back then. People now have access to sophisticated hacking programmes that were nowhere near as prevalent as they are today. Anticheat software was also available way before Xbox Live and the paid online services became a thing.

I gamed online a lot from 1999 onwards and had great times playing without having issues with people cheating and no one had to pay for an online subscription.

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