• Orc Attack Preview – Now We’re Cookin’ With Gas

    Those pesky humans just can’t leave the poor Orcs alone!  The human-centric fantasy world is a thing of the past.  For quite a while, games...

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    Those pesky humans just can’t leave the poor Orcs alone!  The human-centric fantasy world is a thing of the past.  For quite a while, games like Warcraft have tried to offer a more rounded view of what it’s like to live a world filled with multiple intelligent species, and in the upcoming game Orc Attack...
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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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    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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  • BattleBlock Theater Preview

    The Behemoth is far from the lumbering monstrosity that the name implies.  The Behemoth is actually the indie developer of the cult hit Alien Hominid,...

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    The Behemoth is far from the lumbering monstrosity that the name implies.  The Behemoth is actually the indie developer of the cult hit Alien Hominid, and the wildly popular downloadable multiplayer beat ‘em up Castle Crashers. Both were sleeper hits, created by a small and ironically-named team.  Their next game, Battle Block Theater uses the...
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  • Hands-On With Crush 3D

    Some games just cry out for 3-D.  While there have been quite a few 2-D classics ported to the Nintendo 3DS, many of them just...

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    Some games just cry out for 3-D.  While there have been quite a few 2-D classics ported to the Nintendo 3DS, many of them just use the 3-D effects for a bit of added visual flair, but others use this extra dimension as an integral part of the world.  Crush 3-D which just released a...
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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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    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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  • Explore the Heart of Darkness In Spec Ops: The Line

    The Spec Ops franchise is in a tough field for little guys.  As a modern military shooter, it will find itself being defined as “Not...

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    The Spec Ops franchise is in a tough field for little guys.  As a modern military shooter, it will find itself being defined as “Not Call of Duty” by many gamers. Even though the series has been around since the days of the original Playstation, it hasn’t appeared in this console generation or the even...
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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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    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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  • Guild Wars 2: Hands On Preview

    The release date for Guild Wars 2 was just announced, the server “Stress Test” was held earlier this week, and this eagerly anticipated sequel to...

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    The release date for Guild Wars 2 was just announced, the server “Stress Test” was held earlier this week, and this eagerly anticipated sequel to ArenaNet’s subscription-free MMO is almost here.  The many fans of the first game are dying to get their hands on it, but what about the rest of the gaming community? ...
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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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    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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  • Hybrid – Preview

    Gamers can be forgiven for looking at the upcoming XBLA shooter Hybrid and dismissing it as just another third person shooter.  Because… it IS another...

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    Gamers can be forgiven for looking at the upcoming XBLA shooter Hybrid and dismissing it as just another third person shooter.  Because… it IS another cover-based, multiplayer-only shooter for Xbox Live Arcade.  Yet Hybrid has a gimmick to set it apart from the multitudes of other shooting games, and it’s a pretty good gimmick too....
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