Dominique Pamplemousse – Review
Games are big business! Huge companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars paying massive teams of developers to slave away for years producing blockbuster online...
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Making The Game Should Be Enough
What consumers expect from a video game has changed over the last thirty years. In the 80’s there were cloth maps and thick manuals in...
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Deadly Premonition: Director’s Cut
Making a video game is hard. Having a good idea is only one small part of it. After the designer says “I got a great...
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Chivalry Deadliest Warrior
The Deadliest Warrior TV show has “Video Game” written all over it, and there have been some games based on the franchise, but none of...
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Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol: Pacific Skies
Aerial combat is a common genre of gaming, but it’s often so realistic and hardcore that casual players can get turned off. Sid Meier’s Ace...
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Capcom 30th Anniversary Character Encyclopedia – Book Review
The introduction to Capcom’s new 30th Anniversary Character Encyclopedia points out that Capcom got its start from arcade action and fighting games where story and...
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EA Mobile Announces Winter Line-up Including Plants vs. Zombies 2 for Android
When Plants vs. Zombies 2 hit iPhone earlier this year it gave tower defense junkies a dose of free-to-play heroin for the addictive franchise, but...
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New York Comic Con 2013 – Approaching “Peak Geek”
The Jacob Javits Center on Manhattan’s west side has folded up its cape and taken off its tights, changing back into its secret identity as...
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Hands-On With Montague’s Mount
It can take just one little thing to ruin an otherwise good game. Imagine a first-person narrative puzzle/adventure game that allows players to explore a...
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Cognition Episode 4: The Cain Killer Review
Cognition Episode 4: The Cain Killer – Review It has been a year since the first episode of the adventure series Cognition appeared, and the...
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Betrayer Hands-On Preview
Monolith Games made some amazing first person shooters, including the horror/shooter hybrid F.E.A.R. And the spy parody No One Lives Forever. A splinter group of...
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BioShock Infinite: Clash in the Clouds DLC
Bioshock Infinite divided its gameplay into clear sections where Booker and Elizabeth explored the floating city of Columbia in a story-based adventure, and other sections...
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Doodle Jump Kinect
When the Kinect was unveiled, hardcore gamers correctly deduced that it wasn’t going to have many games that appeal to the traditional Xbox fan and...
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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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Rising Storm
Red Orchestra 2 hit two years ago, introducing gamers to a very realistic World War II experience. A first person shooter that ignored many of...
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Hands-On With Doodle Jump Kinect
Before Angry Birds came along, Doodle Jump was that game your friends were always playing on their phone. In its mobile incarnation it’s a vertical...