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Posted 14 Aug 2010

MAG revisited

A few months ago I reviewed Sony’s epic online shooter, Massive Action Game. And I liked it, quite a bit. Boils, pimples and ugliness aside, it was an enjoyable online shooter experience where you and your best 255 friends could go online and fight for territory in maps so huge there was no way you’d ever learn to navigate them…. Continue »
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Posted 27 Jul 2010

It’s Happy Hour in MAG!

A new update to MAG – everyone’s forgotten online FPS MMO type thing. v1.07 will update Supression mode, to remove the faction dominance in some maps. Furthermore, the update will introduce “Happy Hour” which will dish out double XP for the first hour you play every day. A good way for people to be re-introduced with the title, for sure…. Continue »
Posted 19 Feb 2010

MAG Battle tips: Field Support

More MAG tips from the guys who made the game, this time Field Support. Personally this is the role I slot into in most games. You get twice as many points for saving someone as you do for killing Can’t be a bad thing. [PlaystaionBlog] Basic Tips You always want to maximize your points at the end of a round… Continue »
Posted 17 Feb 2010

MAG Developer tips: Comando (Vid)

We have a soft spot for the Zipper interactive shooter round these parts no mistaking it, that why we have covered it so extensively. Were not all PS3 fan boys or anything but because this game is so rich and multifaceted I genuinely do look for all the help I can get when playing it and so should you! In that spirit, here’s another Dev… Continue »
Posted 11 Feb 2010

Retail charts for UK and Ireland...

Well its pretty clear who won the battle of the exclusive with Mass Effect blowing all competition out of the water in both sales and review scores terms. Of course comparing the two is really about as futile as it gets. One being a now established franchise and the other a massive online only game that is designed to breath and grow… Continue »
Posted 09 Feb 2010

MAG tips straight from Zipper

Zipper interactive’s CJ Heine, dropped by the PS3 blog today and brought some tip with him on how to survive Suppression. If your Raven it may be worth watching because we get pwoned in Suppression. Here’s what he said: or players that are new to MAG, Suppression is one of the first game types they can play – keep these things in… Continue »
Posted 07 Feb 2010

Massive Action Game Review

Massive Action Game, or MAG as it’s been marketed as, is Sony’s triumphant announcement that indeed, PSN is a primary online platform for gaming. Whether recent rumours of subscription-based or pay-for services are next up for PSN, you cannot deny that MAG is a particularly epic showpiece for the service as it stands. Not since the release of Modern Warfare… Continue »
Posted 29 Jan 2010

MAG Launch: Launch Page

January 29th is upon us, the battle of the console exclusives. PS3 exclusive MAG is sitting on your local retailers shelves waiting patiently for you; housing that new game smell that we all love. So, luckily the game has been out since Wednesday for gamers in the land of the free; meaning there are plenty of new gameplay videos to go around. I’ll add… Continue »
Posted 27 Jan 2010

Want to play MAG with 255 other people?...

When I first heard about MAG, I wondered why 256, and would you care so much with that amount of people, I certainly don’t have 255 friends on my PSN But maybe you can join a MAG club and bring your PS3 along to a gaming night, it would look at lot like this and I like it! Â Add… Continue »
Posted 26 Jan 2010

Jan 29th MAG and Mass Effect 2

As we crawl like somnolent insects towards the end of January 2010 – tiered, cold and penniless we must have hope. As this Friday we get two of the most anticipated console exclusives on both PS3 and Xbox 360. Whats your poison going to be? Bioware’s rich expansive space opera or Zipper Interactives almost too good to be true stats driven… Continue »