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| 1. | The only new hardware release of 2011 came from this company: | ||
| Microsoft | |||
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Nintendo | ||
| Sony | |||
| Sega | |||
| 2. | Year of the Threequel! This was the only franchise below to not release a third entry this year: | ||
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Mass Effect | ||
| Gears of War | |||
| Battlefield | |||
| Uncharted | |||
| 3. | Modern Warfare 3 was a much better title than this one, which it also could've been called: | ||
| Call of Duty 6 | |||
| Call of Duty 7 | |||
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Call of Duty 8 | ||
| Call of Duty 9 | |||
| 4. | If at any point in time this year you were playing as Cole Phelps, you were playing this game: | ||
| Saints Row: The Third | |||
| Infamous 2 | |||
| Driver: San Francisco | |||
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L.A. Noire | ||
| 5. | We really enjoyed that new Assassin's Creed game this year, Assassin's Creed: ummm...what was the subtitle for it again? | ||
| Revolutions | |||
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Revelations | ||
| Reloaded | |||
| Righteous | |||
| 6. | This long-awaited Blizzard product finally hit shelves in 2011: | ||
| World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria | |||
| Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm | |||
| Diablo III | |||
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None of the above (come on, it's Blizzard!) | ||
| 7. | The animated film Rio had a tie in with this game: | ||
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Angry Birds | ||
| Farmville | |||
| Minecraft | |||
| Rock Band | |||
| 8. | If you were hoping for a new game featuring this classic Nintendo character in 2011, you had a pretty disappointing year: | ||
| Kirby | |||
| Mario | |||
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Samus Aran | ||
| Link | |||
| 9. | Which EA sports title below is listed with its correct cover player? | ||
| NCAA 12: Cam Newton | |||
| Madden NFL 12: Aaron Rodgers | |||
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FIFA 12: Landon Donovan | ||
| NHL 12 : Alexander Ovechkin | |||
| 10. | Downloadable content released this year for this game included Old World Blues and Lonesome Road: | ||
| Dragon Age 2 | |||
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Fallout: New Vegas | ||
| Mass Effect 2 | |||
| Portal 2 | |||
| 11. | This iPhone game eventually found its way to the XBox 360 as a Kinect game: | ||
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Fruit Ninja | ||
| Cut the Rope | |||
| Pocket Frogs | |||
| Angry Birds | |||
| 12. | It was another banner year for Nolan North, the hardest working man in video game voice acting. Which of these 2011 blockbuster releases does he not provide a voice for? | ||
| Batman: Arkham City | |||
| Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception | |||
| Assassin's Creed: Revelations | |||
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Modern Warfare 3 | ||
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By way of explanation.....
He's The Penguin in Arkham City, and has been Nathan Drake in all the Uncharted games, as well as Desmond Miles through the entire Assassin's Creed series. |
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| 13. | Duke Nukem Forever, a game that has been in development since approximately 1973, was released this year. Work on the game was finished by the company best known for this game: | ||
| Gears of War | |||
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Borderlands | ||
| Doom | |||
| Call of Duty: Black Ops | |||
| 14. | This online service was taken down by some dastardly hackers for a few weeks earlier this year: | ||
| Steam | |||
| XBox Live | |||
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PlayStation Network | ||
| OnLive | |||
| 15. | We pour one out for this video game magazine which finally folded towards the end of 2011: | ||
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GamePro | ||
| Nintendo Power | |||
| Game Informer | |||
| EGM | |||
| 16. | Lo, and Apple declared this time-waster to be their iPhone Game of the Year: | ||
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Tiny Tower | ||
| Sword and Sworcery | |||
| Words With Friends | |||
| Angry Birds | |||
| 17. | The surprisingly awesome Saints Row: The Third contains voice work from each of these, um, celebrities, except for: | ||
| wrestler Hulk Hogan | |||
| porn star Sasha Grey | |||
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rapper T-Pain | ||
| actor Burt Reynolds | |||
| 18. | For those who didn't want to see their loved ones over the holidays anyway, a new MMORPG set in this universe launched in December: | ||
| Lord of the Rings | |||
| Battlestar Galactica | |||
| Star Trek | |||
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Star Wars | ||
| 19. | We were going to have a question about Skyrim, but then we took an arrow to the knee. Oh, sheesh, fine. In a world full of side quests, misc. objectives and the Thieves Guild, what's the name of the primary antagonist? | ||
| Paarthurnax | |||
| Ulfric Stormcloak | |||
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Alduin | ||
| Lydia | |||
| 20. | The Kid showed those Windbags who's boss by writin' those trivia questions about the year in games. He's ready for a break, but the Calamity had some other ideas. Like asking you what game contains this running commentary about The Kid: | ||
| Limbo | |||
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Bastion | ||
| Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet | |||
| Renegade Ops | |||
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