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  • Arma 3 and the Sandbocalypse

    The term “First Person Shooter” doesn’t truly sum up the Arma franchise. The Arma games are military sims that favor hyper-realism for players who want...

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    Charles Battersby
    by Charles Battersby
    The term “First Person Shooter” doesn’t truly sum up the Arma franchise. The Arma games are military sims that favor hyper-realism for players who want more than the “One man army” experience of most other shooters.  As in real war, there are no regenerating shields, guns aren’t magic wands that send bullets unerringly towards their...
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  • Hands-On With Doodle Jump Kinect

    Before Angry Birds came along, Doodle Jump was that game your friends were always playing on their phone. In its mobile incarnation it’s a vertical...

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    Charles Battersby
    by Charles Battersby
    Before Angry Birds came along, Doodle Jump was that game your friends were always playing on their phone. In its mobile incarnation it’s a vertical platformer where players guide a cute critter upwards through a series of platforms while avoiding enemies and trying to not miss any jumps. As a “Autojumper” it would probably be...
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  • Sanctum 2 – Hands On Preview

    Tower Defense is among the most heavily-refined genres in gaming.  The concept ain’t broke, don’t need no fixin’ and players have fun with these games...

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    Charles Battersby
    by Charles Battersby
    Tower Defense is among the most heavily-refined genres in gaming.  The concept ain’t broke, don’t need no fixin’ and players have fun with these games even though there has been little evolution since Tower Defense began as a Starcraft mod years ago.  But still, developers are always on the lookout for new ways to modify...
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  • Defiance: Hands-On Preview

    The marketing term is “Trans media franchise”.  It means a project that appeals to consumers over a variety of mediums like movies, toys, video games...

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    Charles Battersby
    by Charles Battersby
    The marketing term is “Trans media franchise”.  It means a project that appeals to consumers over a variety of mediums like movies, toys, video games and books.  Star Wars is the granddaddy of them all, quickly turning from an underdog film into a runaway toy line with novels, comic books, made for TV specials and...
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  • Hands-on With Neverwinter

    Dungeons & Dragons fans have an intense love for Neverwinter Nights, an amazing RPG series that dates back to the early 90’s, but was popularized...

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    Charles Battersby
    by Charles Battersby
    Dungeons & Dragons fans have an intense love for Neverwinter Nights, an amazing RPG series that dates back to the early 90’s, but was popularized by Bioware in 2002.  It captured the vast amount of choice that D&D offered to players when creating their characters, and let virtual dungeon masters make their own adventures and...
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  • Hands on: Nuvo Pro Game Grip

    Mobile gaming. It has certainly become a prevalent aspect of the industry, one that was expected to die of within the next gaming generation. But...

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    Martin Toney
    by Martin Toney
    Mobile gaming. It has certainly become a prevalent aspect of the industry, one that was expected to die of within the next gaming generation. But over the past few years there has been an incredible rise in the amount of people who are gaming on their mobile phones and smartphones. Since it’s inception the mobile...
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  • Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Preview

    Last week the HD version of Zone of the Enders arrived, and it came with a demo disk for Konami’s upcoming Metal Gear side story,...

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    Charles Battersby
    by Charles Battersby
    Last week the HD version of Zone of the Enders arrived, and it came with a demo disk for Konami’s upcoming Metal Gear side story, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.  We had our hands on this game before, but the new demo gives a much more in-depth look at this tale of a cyborg ninja and...
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  • Tomb Raider: Reboot or Deboot?

    When the original PlayStation arrived in the mid nineties, it brought GRAPHICS FROM THE THIRD DIMENSION!  Game designers were mostly baffled by this mysterious new...

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    Charles Battersby
    by Charles Battersby
    When the original PlayStation arrived in the mid nineties, it brought GRAPHICS FROM THE THIRD DIMENSION!  Game designers were mostly baffled by this mysterious new dimension, and many of the early PlayStation games used 3D character models that still behaved like they were in 2D worlds.  Then Lara Croft came along…She was an instant icon. ...
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  • Sifteo Cubes – Blocks For The 21st Century

    Console makers are scrambling to find new ways to let players interface with games.  They’re making some good attempts; say what you want about the...

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    Charles Battersby
    by Charles Battersby
    Console makers are scrambling to find new ways to let players interface with games.  They’re making some good attempts; say what you want about the kind of games available for the Kinect, at least the hardware allows players to control them in a new way.  The same is true for iphone games that rely entirely...
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  • Resident Evil 6 Preview

    They’re cranking out Resident Evil products by the bucketful this year. Resident Evil Revelations wowed 3DS owners, the new movie Resident Evil Retribution features some...

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    Charles Battersby
    by Charles Battersby
    They’re cranking out Resident Evil products by the bucketful this year. Resident Evil Revelations wowed 3DS owners, the new movie Resident Evil Retribution features some very attractive women fighting zombies, the animated feature Resident Evil Damnation hits DVD next week, and Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City was… well it had “Resident Evil” in the title...
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