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Darren Price
Consumer & Gaming Writer - Australia
Darren Price has been playing video games and messing with technology for 45 years. For the last fifteen years he’s been writing about games and tech, as well. He hates sport, but loves sports video games - which he puts down to a mixture of being annoyingly contrary and extremely lazy. Whilst he is completely tone deaf, he considers Rock Band to be his guilty pleasure. A geek from way back, Darren builds his own computers, collects comic books, owns several lightsabers and is a sucker for video-gaming merchandise.

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Dirt Rally gets real

Wed, 23rd Mar 2016
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Codemasters put their money were their mouth is and sets out to show NetGuide's Darren Price just how close their rally game is to the real thing.
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Telltale gives Minecraft it's Story Mode

Sun, 20th Mar 2016
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Open-world block-building game Minecraft gets the campaign mode you didn't know you needed in Telltale's Minecraft Story Mode.
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Developer interview: Brian Hayes Creative Director for UFC 2

Wed, 16th Mar 2016
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Netguide's Darren Price caught up with EA Sports' Creative Director Brian Hayes to talk about the new modes and other improvements in UFC 2.
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EA Sports UFC 2 gets us back in the octagon

Fri, 11th Mar 2016
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EA Sports' newcomer of a franchise kicks off this year's barrage of sports sims with its second outing, UFC 2.
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Wargaming.net delivers new (real) tank

Mon, 7th Mar 2016
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Wargaming.net, famous for it's free-to-play World of Tanks game has just delivered a real tank to the Australian Armour & Artillery Museum in Cairns.
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Is Dying Light: The Following Enhanced Edition worth a look?

Mon, 7th Mar 2016
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It's time, once again to run, jump and hide from the zombie horde in Techland's Dying Light: The Following Enhanced Edition.
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Unravel: a yarn with a difference

Sun, 21st Feb 2016
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Unravel weaves a unique tale as Yarny's charming platform adventure tugs at the heartstrings, offering a fresh spin on the genre.
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Virtual tramping in Firewatch

Sat, 20th Feb 2016
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Virtual tramping reaches new heights in Firewatch, an interactive narrative that blurs the line between gaming and storytelling.
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PC gamers strike back with XCOM 2

Mon, 8th Feb 2016
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XCOM 2 ignites epic resistance in a high-stakes guerrilla war against alien oppressors, testing gamers' strategic mettle to its limits.
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Rise of the Tomb Raider comes to PC

Wed, 3rd Feb 2016
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PC owners finally get to play what can only be described as the definitive version of Lara Croft's latest adventure, Rise of the Tomb Raider.
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World of Tanks now available free on PlayStation 4

Thu, 21st Jan 2016
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Armour up on PS4! World of Tanks rolls out free; special tanks and offers await new recruits till January's end.
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PlayStation 4 gets Beyond: Two Souls remaster

Wed, 13th Jan 2016
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The remastering trend continues with Quantic Dreams 2013 PlayStation 3 exclusive adventure game, Beyond: Two Souls, getting a new-gen makeover.
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Digital mayhem: Just Cause 3 review

Thu, 3rd Dec 2015
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Prepare yourself for some nose-bleed inducing mayhem as gaming's homage to over-the-top action movies gets its third entry.
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The Force is strong in this one: Star Wars Battlefront review

Sun, 29th Nov 2015
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In advance of the most long-awaited movie of the year, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, comes the year's most anticipated game, Star Wars Battlefront.
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Running rubber with Need for Speed

Fri, 27th Nov 2015
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Ghost Studios returns with Need for Speed, aiming for a reboot on new-gen consoles. But does it accelerate past its predecessors or stall at the start?.
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Sandbox mayhem: Just Cause 3 preview

Fri, 20th Nov 2015
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In the week before PAX Australia Netguide's Darren Price was invited to an exclusive look at Just Cause 3 at Square Enix's Sydney office.
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Star Wars Battlefront: play it for free right now!

Sun, 15th Nov 2015
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Netguide checks out a preview of EA Games' upcoming Star Wars Battlefront and reveals how you can play it for free right now!.
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Wandering the wasteland of Fallout 4

Sun, 15th Nov 2015
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Bethesda's summer tent-pole game has arrived giving gamers the chance to leave vault 111 and wander through the post-apocalyptic world of Fallout 4.
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Hands-on Review: Lexar JumpDrive M20i and JumpDrive M20c

Sat, 14th Nov 2015
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Netguide's tech guru, Darren Price, puts Lexar's next-generation of flash drives, the JumpDrive M20i and the JumpDrive M20c, through their paces.
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Shooting some hoops with NBA Live 16

Sun, 8th Nov 2015
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EA's NBA Live 16 hits the court, offering an accessible yet strategic basketball experience for the armchair sportsman.