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We don’t have too much longer to wait before we can jump into Zipper Interactive’s MAG, the 256 player online shooter. If you’ve been lucky enough to take part in the beta, you’ll know that there’s a whole lot to Zipper’s latest. Between the various game types, numerous PMC careers and leadership abilities, [...]
Published on: 30th December, 2009
We count down the best games in the history of the Japanese RPG tradition.
If there’s one series that completely embodies the charm of the Japanese role-playing game, it’s Final Fantasy. This legendary series, which is now more than twenty years old, has grown into a universally recognizable entity, spawning spin-off action games, movies and more. [...]
Published on: 9th October, 2009
The fourth Fallout 3 downloadable expansion, Point Lookout, takes you on a ferry ride to an area that time forgot. It’s a swampy environment that sits just outside the Capital Wasteland filled with gnarled trees, foggy hillsides and inbred monstrosities that live in shacks. This is the area offered up for exploring in Point Lookout [...]
Published on: 9th October, 2009
Guys like me that have been into gaming since before there were even graphics to bitch about have often hopped on our high horse and proclaimed today’s games to be so coddling and hand-holding that one can’t possibly get the same sense of accomplishment as the experiences in the days of yore. It’s a bunch [...]
Published on: 28th September, 2009
You enter a room to see a gamer playing his PS3. His eyes are bulging and bloodshot, his hands are excitedly shaking and he is sweating profusely. No sound but the noise of dramatic bombs and fast paced gunshots – maybe the odd noise of a tank. This is the typical description of someone playing [...]
Published on: 28th September, 2009
New WarDevil screens have popped up on the game’s official website. The site, previously just a mere static image of the game’s protagonist, now scrolls through several different shots. The new screens show our hero facing off against some heavily armored soldiers, and could possibly even be gameplay shots.
The oft-antagonized WarDevil has had [...]
Published on: 10th July, 2009
When the original Soul Calibur released on the Sega Dreamcast back in 1999, it was quite possibly the finest-looking console game in video game history. It was really the first example of how the past superiority of the arcades was dying out, and fighting fans everywhere – especially those who attacked the arcades with fistfuls [...]
Published on: 6th July, 2009
If you’re a fan of off-road racing games, chances are, you’ve played a Rainbow Studios title in the past. Their most recent MX vs. ATV series has fared quite well and although the last iteration, Untamed, wasn’t quite as polished as we would’ve hoped, MX vs. ATV Reflex seeks to up the ante. The bottom [...]
Published on: 6th July, 2009
When it was first unveiled at E3 2006, soon-to-be PlayStation 3 owners marveled at the capability of Sony’s new machine, which launched in the US later that same year. However, Afrika slipped off the radar over the past couple of years for a variety of reasons, and for a time, it didn’t seem likely that [...]
Published on: 6th July, 2009
The original Lost Planet wasn’t quite the game I had expected it to be. After eagerly waiting for the PlayStation 3 port, I came to realize that it’s hype was mostly that of its initially exclusive status to the Xbox 360. The controls were dull, and the action was tedious and slow. Needless to say, [...]