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Is "fun" a quantifiable, measureable thing? Researchers seem to think so.

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2012 may have some great games waiting for us still, but it looks like 2013 is going to blow our minds, in this list of five games that we simply cannot wait for.

Can the future of gaming really be sustained with free to play titles? Big gun studio Crytek certainly believes so, and will actually be gambling with that possibility in the future when they switch to freemium games.

Listen gaming industry, if you're going to remake old games, could you at least use these gems from the past?

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