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Review: Asura’s Wrath (X360)

Asura’s Wrath is an unusual game. It’s short, at around five or six hours, and heavily scripted with Quick Time Events telling you what to do. It’s a wash of chaos, blinding colors, and cosmic explosions interrupted only by a … Continue reading

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Review: Kingdoms of Amalur – Reckoning (PS3)

Bethesda Softworks’ first Elder Scrolls game, Arena, took FRPGs by storm in ’94 packaging an entire continent on a set of eight 3.5″ discs requiring only 25MB of space on your hard drive and experiencing it all in first-person. The … Continue reading

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Review: The Darkness 2 (Xbox 360)

Jackie Estacado isn’t your typical Mafia Don. He’s young, brash, and possessed by a gut ripping terror from beyond known only as the Darkness. For him, the voices in his head are all too real. In the last game, it … Continue reading

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Review: Rage (Xbox 360)

id Software isn’t known for strong, single player storytelling. They usually leave that to others such as Raven Software. Anyone that has played their games knows that they’re more about eye candy and blistered trigger fingers replacing favorite fictional moments … Continue reading

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Grand Theft Auto 5 gets a huge logo

Rockstar greeted everyone hitting their homepage today with a dramatic flourish by revealing a huge, Grand Theft Auto V logo and word that a trailer is coming on 11-2-11. It was pretty much a foregone conclusion that we knew Rockstar … Continue reading

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Review: Shadows of the Damned (X360)

Suda 51 is not your normal game designer. Just looking at his history, from Killer 7 to No More Heroes, should tell you that he doesn’t go in for formulaic looks, cliched settings, or stories that take themselves too seriously. … Continue reading

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Review: F.3.A.R. (X360)

I remember scrambling through the terror-laden corridors and rooms of the first F.E.A.R. years ago. Monolith had crafted a place that not only fed the blazing barrels of my arsenal but struck the chords of my spine with every twitching … Continue reading

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Let’s finish it – the Gears of War 3 campaign trailer

The campaign trailer for Epic’s upcoming blitzkrieg, Gears of War 3, is out showing off a bit more of what players can expect from the single-player storyline aiming to finish the trilogy. The last time we left Cole and Fenix, … Continue reading

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Starcraft II – Heart of the Swarm trailer rolls out, but don’t hope for a release date yet

A short tease was released for the next chapter in the Starcraft II saga, Heart of the Swarm. Unfortunately, this doesn’t mean that the game might actually be coming out this year. Earlier this month, Activision had their quarterly financial … Continue reading

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Developers Feel PSN Downtime Crunch

Computer and Videogames has a story in which they spoke to the producer of the upcoming action RPG, Dark Souls. Kei Horono admitted that “I would be lying if I said the problems with PSN hadn’t caused us some problems, … Continue reading

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