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Dark Sector Review

“With great power, comes great responsibility” is what I think I was supposed to gather from Dark Sector, Digital Extreme’s new super-powered and superhuman third-person action game. The title has been a long time coming – four years to be exact – and at times its existence only as a shiny tech demo led […]

April 2nd, 2008 | Will | 0 comments | Continued
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Fool’s Day Madness: MGS4 and Assassin’s Creed Mash-Up Video

A few mildly entertaining things have happened in the gaming world this April Fool’s Day, but there sure hasn’t been anything like this. A video has appeared from an unnamed and unknown source, featuring gameplay footage from what appears to be the first level of Metal Gear Solid 4. But this isn’t your regular gameplay […]

April 1st, 2008 | Will | 0 comments | Continued
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Rumour: Banjo and Kazooie travel back through time in pursuit of the witch’s giant T.I.T.

In the spirit of April Fool’s Day the folks at Rare have offered several possibilities concerning the plot for their upcoming title Banjo-Kazooie 3. Here are five different plots and only one of them holds truth. We expect to be pursuing T.I.T later this year.

Rumour One: Banjo and Grunty team up against a new threat, […]

April 1st, 2008 | Will | 0 comments | Continued
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Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Review

Back in 2006 there were two games duking it out for your attention; Gears of War and Rainbow Six Vegas. With the hype meter on overdrive for Epic’s stop and pop shooter, it was surprising when Ubisoft Montreal’s reboot of the Tom Clancy tactical action game busted down the holiday doors and stole some of […]

March 30th, 2008 | Will | 0 comments | Continued
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Rockstar Social Club

Today Rockstar announced a new endeavour, The Rockstar Social Club website. Its a Grand Theft Auto IV stat tracking extravanganza and it will also be compatible with future Rockstar titles. Here is the press release for all the details:

On April 29th Rockstar Games will release the most anticipated game of 2008, Grand Theft Auto IV. […]

March 27th, 2008 | Will | 0 comments | Continued
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Turning Point: Fall of Liberty Review

Here’s a little history lesson: World War II began on September 3rd 1939, and ended six years later on August the 14th 1945. And, today is your lucky day because I have another; the first WWII game came out in 1984 and we have seen a flood of them ever since. Now, for those of […]

March 26th, 2008 | Will | 1 comment | Continued
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Condemned 2: Bloodshot Review

Grab a liquor bottle, chug the whole damn thing, pick up another and smash it in the face of a crazed and rotting lunatic, who probably needed therapy rather than the face full of glass you just served him. Now, what could this possibly be? Hopefully not your Sunday afternoon… this could only be Condemned […]

March 23rd, 2008 | Will | 2 comments | Continued
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Sins of a Solar Empire Demo Released

The demo for Stardock and Ironclad’s new copy-protection free 4X RTS is finally out. The demo is now on Gamespot so in the time it takes to download 580MB you can know if you have what it takes to be an intergalactic warlord.
A game as deep and complex as Sins needed a demo far […]

March 22nd, 2008 | Will | 0 comments | Continued
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The Sims 3 Announced for 2009

EA announced that their mega hit family simulator will make a return on the PC in 2009. The game will feature an open living neighborhood, new personalities for your Sims and a hefty amount of customization. Will Wright, mastermind of the franchise, won’t be developing this title. However, Rod Humble, Head of The Sims Studio […]

March 20th, 2008 | Will | 0 comments | Continued
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Mario In Reality?

So you’ve been wondering what Mario might look like on some jazzed up pixel pushing hardware, or maybe if you saw him at the local supermarket. Well wonder no more, because over at pixeloo.blogspot.com, a master of photoshop has produced a vision of Nintendo’s famous plumber to completely horrifying results.
The most frightening vision of a […]

March 17th, 2008 | Will | 0 comments | Continued