As the title suggests, as this is now the sixth God of War game, what can they really do to keep combat feeling fresh?

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Dave Castelnuovo, the co-creator of popular iOS game "Pocket God, " said Wednesday that more than 50% of the game's player base uses an iPod Touch.

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But in the game of playing God, Dr Bodenschatz is bidding fair to achieve the status of a minor deity.

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"Thank God I was able to play the game of baseball for so many years, " Rivera added.

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In other words, this part of the game evokes the "voice of God" from those grainy NFL Films from the 1970s, with John Facenda's baritone narration and swelling music.

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All but neglected in the rush of publicity are the implications, good and bad, of a game that allows the player to act, in effect, like God--fashioning people out of nothing, imbuing them with specific characteristics, providing situations and decisions that have consequences large and small.

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For the past several months, a friend of mine has been telling me about the potentially game-changing implications of an obscure (at least to me) metal named Thorium after the Norse god of thunder, Thor.

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