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John Markley

Civilization V is coming this fall

February 25, 2010

Some very big news for for fans of the long-running Civilization series: Firaxis Games has announced that Civilization V will be coming out on PC’s this fall.

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Most “Xenos” ever in a post title: Xenogears/Xenosaga director bringing Xenoblade to Nintendo Wii

February 11, 2010

One of my all-time favorite games and the subject of some of my best gaming memories is Xenogears, the best RPG about a mecha-piloting martial artist with dissociative  identity disorder battling an ancient biotechnological superweapon pretending to be God ever released for the Sony PlayStation.  More recently, I had a lot of fun with the [...]

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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 single player trailer

February 8, 2010

You’d never guess it from any of the news coverage or Electronic Arts’ own previous marketing, but Battlefield: Bad Company 2 does in fact have a single-player campaign, and the trailer for it is now online and looks quite impressive.  I’m glad to see that the developers haven’t forgotten about those of us who just [...]

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Lufia series returns in Japan on the Nintendo DS

February 8, 2010

My fellow long-time veterans of RPGs may remember the Lufia series, which had two absolutely fantastic games on the Super NES and two follow-ups on Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance.  This month, Japan will see the release of a new Lufia game- or “Estpolis,” as it’s known over there-  for the Nintendo DS, [...]

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