The Lego games have had great success drawing from popular franchises such as Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. Lego City Undercover didn’t draw from any such franchise (the closest comparison would be Grand Theft Auto), but the Lego games’ debut in the open world genre was warmly received. Lego City Undercover: The …
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Ubisoft Montreal has done something fairly amazing with their stand alone Far Cry 3 expansion, Blood Dragon. Instead of just magically duct taping on another 20+ outposts on the original Far Cry 3 for you liberate, they instead skin the entire game with a level of straight-to-VHS 80s action movie schlock that most people haven’t …
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Hey, did you know licensed games don’t have to be total coal-suckers? They can sometimes be perfectly acceptable, middle-of-the-road, kind-of-worth-playing games too. That’s the story of Star Trek: The Video Game. If vacuums had a scale of sucking, this would be somewhere around…well, that’s what the score at the end of this review is …
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What happens when an alien spider crash lands on earth? Alien Spidy has the answer. The adorable eight-legged freak from Aracnia has brought his adventure to Xbox Live Arcade, but he also brought some issues. This is one alien that should have stayed in orbit.
Alien Spidy is a twitch platformer, meaning that each …
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The first Dead Island set the gaming world ablaze with its glitzy debut trailer and cheeky in-game rap song, building the soon-to-be released zombie smasher toward unspeakable levels of hype. The final product proved that gameplay could stand above the mess surrounding, striding in what most gamers seek in a game. And like its …
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The Sacred series of games has always lived in the shadow of competitor Diablo as an isometic hack-and-slash loot-driven action roleplaying game. However, Deep Silver and SouthEnd have taken a different approach to their downloadble prequel to Sacred 3 with Sacred Citadel, a 2D sidescrolling beat-em-up reminiscient of games like the soon-to-be-remade …
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In the future prisons will dot the landscape. Instead of packing low rent housing complexes to the brim with those that no choice other than living in slums, crumbling concrete superstructures filled with steel bars and chain link fences will be a thriving colony for those deemed unfit to live with humanity. While some …
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In this burgeoning period of fighting games, where simplicity is king and the power of community is ever so clear, it’s hard to break into the fighting game scene on normal AAA merits. After the smash-hit success of the 2011 Mortal Kombat reboot, NetherRealm Studios is treading familiar territory in the DC universe. We saw …
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The bizarre story of magic infused whales and steampunk assassins continues in Arkane Studio’s downloadable content for Dishonored with the game’s first storyline expansion pack, The Knife of Dunwall. While priced to sell at $10, is it worth your time and energy?
Back to Dunwall
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Remember the SNES RPG era? That was a great time. How about the Playstation RPG era? Ah, 90s memories… Wouldn’t it be great to experience not one, but both of those times again? With Evoland from Shiro Games, you can. This PC title will take you on a trip through the evolution of RPGs, …
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