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Doctor Who City of Daleks: Episode or Game?

June 6, 2010

Enjoy British quips and time-travel? Think yourself clever enough to take on a hoard of Daleks with nothing but your wits and a Sonic Screwdriver? Now is your opportunity in BBC’s new Doctor Who computer game series.

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War for Cybertron: Gamers, Roll Out!

June 2, 2010

If anyone is a fan of Transformers, it’s this girl. Giant mechs wailing on each other for the fate of the universe? Sign me up. For the first time, the start of the war between the Autobots and Decepticons is shown in video games in Transformers: War for Cybertron.

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Red Dead Redemption: A Brief Report

May 29, 2010

Rockstar Games’s newest game Red Dead Redemption is getting rave reviews across the board. Called “engrossing and superbly addictive” as well as “the ultimate sandbox game”, Red Dead Redemption manages to snag top scores from the biggest gaming reviewers. If you haven’t heard about this game yet, then get out from under that rock and [...]

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Marketing Overhype is Overkill

May 26, 2010

In some of the bigger titles, gaming companies have no problem announcing the new release of each version to create hype and then continue to drop teasers until the game is actually released. This is good marketing. It allows fans to spread the word and considering how expensive games are nowadays, start setting aside the [...]

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Eggs in One Basket: The End of Blizzard?

May 23, 2010

Since 1995, Blizzard Inc has produced one game or expansion a year, all of which involve one of three games, Warcraft, Diablo, and StarCraft. World of Warcraft, the most popular MMORPG and possibly game in the history of video games, has roughly 11.5 million users world-wide. Even with such a large user and fan-base, would [...]

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LittleBigPlanet 2: Not So Small World, After All

May 16, 2010

Creating your own simulated game has never been easier or more adorable than in LittleBigPlanet 2. The original game started out with fifty levels, but fueled by the creativity of the users, LittleBigPlanet 2 will be backwards compatible with over 2 million levels.

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NIER: A for Effort

May 15, 2010

A week and a half later from the release date, this gamer finally finishes NIER with mixed feelings of satisfaction and disappointment. The new Square Enix RPG is a nostalgic, oddly funny, character-driven traipse through an Alternate Earth slowly getting back on its feet after all life had been extinguished. Full of unique characters and [...]

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Wii Beware, Project Natal is Coming

April 29, 2010

Back in 2006, Nintendo reminded us that you do not need cutting-edge graphics to make a great game. The highly-joked about Wii blew us away with the simplest games like Wii Sports. The motion-capture technology was revolutionary to the gaming world, one that video game fans dreamed of. Yet, as it is with all technology, [...]

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NIER: Story or Bust

April 26, 2010

Disease, darkness and an old man, what could be a better combo in the newest addition to the Square Enix franchise? Set in a world where the Black Scawl virus runs rampant, 44-year old Nier is on a quest to save his sick daughter, Yonah. With gorgeous scenery and an innovated RPG gameplay, NIER is [...]

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Final Fantasy: When Graphics Attack

April 22, 2010

There is always a level of expectation you get when you hold a new game in hot hands, especially an established game series like Final Fantasy. It used to be that when holding one of these games, the expectation was a full-fleshed story-line, interesting characters, and a great plot-twist. Now? It’s graphics.

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