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Civilization 4 and Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock Music Nominated for Grammy Awards?

"I’m not sure what’s going on over at the council where folks are being nominated for Grammy awards, but apparently some video gamers are sneaking their way onto the voting board."- Shanghai Six

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SockMaster4911d ago

Hopefully Megadeth get it, they are such an awesome band...they deserve it some much to be honest!

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How ideas of civilisation have shaped gaming

Philip Boyes:
When I was a kid, I played a lot of Civilization 2. I played a lot of strategy games in general, but having a deep love of both history and sci-fi, the epic sweep of Civ 2 from prehistory to the stars held a particular appeal. I loved taking my little people from their huts and ziggurats to the world of science and advanced space-flight.

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Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1 billion hours played, and 66 versions

LAS VEGAS -- Civilization is one of the gods of strategy games, where you oversee the creation of a whole society in competition with other civilizations. It debuted in 1991, and now at 25, it has become one of the cultural touchstones of the game industry, something that everyone recognizes or has played in the past.

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-Foxtrot3014d ago

Maybe I'm saying this because my PC is shit but I really would like a good console Civilization game on par with the PC ones.

Civilization Revolution wasn't half bad...just dumbed down a bit

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Silly Mammo3013d ago

Interesting stats, but they missed the most important ones- how many relationships were ruined? And how many jobs were lost?

ravinash3011d ago

I still remember the day my dad finally convinced me to go and peel the potatoes by turning off the power to the entire house.
I think I lost about 5 hours worth of game play that day.

Mirdus3013d ago

Nuclear-Gandhi still give me the creeps

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On the Eleventh Day of Christmas, My True Love Gave to Me: Eleven Guitar Heroes Shredding

"Going back a few console generations, gaming experienced a surge of rhythm-based games. From shredding out in Guitar Hero to hitting the floor in Dance Central, game started crossing the line between general, real world practices and digital entertainment. Like most other genres, rhythm games became saturated and dipped off in popularity." --PlayStation Enthusiast

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Abnor_Mal3060d ago

Stop these articles, christmas is over. At the least come up with a different title, I mean its January 4 already.

Razputin3060d ago

It's already January 4th. Hence the title on the 11th day of Christmas.

It's a series of titles referencing the days after the 25th which are the 12 days of Christmas.