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Darren Price
Consumer & Gaming Writer - Australia
Darren 'VicBStard' Price has been playing video-games for nearly 40 years and writing about them for the last ten. Darren hates sport, but loves sports video games - which he puts down to a mixture of being annoyingly contrary and extremely lazy. While he is completely tone deaf, he considers Rock Band and Guitar Hero to be his guilty pleasures. A geek from way back, Darren builds his own computers, collects comic books, owns several lightsabers and is a sucker for video-gaming merchandise. Since 2012 he has lived in Sydney where he writes reviews and reports back on the local gaming scene.

Stories by Darren - Page 24

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Codemasters' Dirt Rally comes to consoles
Sun, 10th Apr 2016
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Codemasters' Dirt Rally steers into consoles, promising a pure, thrilling rally sim for motorsport enthusiasts.
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World of Tanks interview with The Chieftain, Nicholas Moran
Fri, 8th Apr 2016
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NetGuide's Darren Price chats about tanks with Nicholas Moran, Wargaming America's Director of Militaria Relations.
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Just Cause 3 gets jet-propelled DLC
Sat, 26th Mar 2016
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Square Enix are now extending Just Cause 3's mayhem with the release of the game's first DLC expansion, Sky Fortress.
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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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D-Link gets serious with security
Mon, 29th Feb 2016
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Netguide’s Darren Price takes a look at a couple of indoor and outdoor networked cameras from D-Link's Vigilance range.
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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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Project CARS gets more Kiwi content
Fri, 29th Jan 2016
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Project CARS, a game that is possibly the best all-round road racing game available at the moment, gets another iconic Kiwi upgrade.
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Tyson enters the octagon in EA Sports UFC 2
Thu, 21st Jan 2016
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Boxing legend Mike Tyson joins the UFC fray in EA Sports UFC 2, landing knockout potential in gamers' hands from 17 March.
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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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Hands-on review: Crucial BX200 2.5-inch SSD 480GB
Wed, 2nd Dec 2015
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Darren Price tests the Crucial BX200 SSD, a boon for gamers craving speed and space to conquer lag and load times.
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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 fuels up the new-gen with a reboot of 'Need for Speed', but can it outrun its legacy?.
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Kiwis invited to sign up for the 2016 Hearthstone Championship Tour
Thu, 26th Nov 2015
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Blizzard Entertainment have announced the 2016 Hearthstone World Championship, the largest Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft tournament in the world.
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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.