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  • Review: Professor Layton and the Last Specter

    Review: Professor Layton and the Last Specter

    Practically a genre unto itself, the Professor Layton games have carved out their own little place in the handheld gaming landscape.  The love children of Myst and a book of MENSA brain conundrums, these titles have done well for Level-5 with their unique brand of […]

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  • Review: Saints Row: The Third

    Review: Saints Row: The Third

    It’s not 2004 anymore.  I know it might be a little difficult to hear for some people, but that was eight years ago.  Two presidential terms ago.  Thirty-two changes of the seasons, enough time for a human being to be conceived and develop an independent […]

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  • VGBlogger 2011 Year in Review: Game of the Year Tournament – Championship Match

    VGBlogger 2011 Year in Review: Game of the Year Tournament – Championship Match

    Every game I have written about in the last two parts was great and should be played.  Since not everyone has the means, time and the necessary desire to play titles that are published for each platform, the fact that some are system exclusive may […]

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  • VGBlogger 2011 Year in Review: Game of the Year Tournament – Semifinals

    VGBlogger 2011 Year in Review: Game of the Year Tournament – Semifinals

    The first part of this series saw the whittling away of a field of great contenders to two matches of four remarkable games.  I am sure that I am wrong on all of these decisions, but at least there is a good record as to […]

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  • VGBlogger 2011 Year in Review: Game of the Year Tournament – First Round

    VGBlogger 2011 Year in Review: Game of the Year Tournament – First Round

    Determining what is the “Game of the Year”, the best video game to be released in twelve calendar months, is an inherently unfair process.  Lets say that in 20XX, despite vital utilities being compromised due to the vile progenitors of Mavericks, a game came out […]

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  • Review: Battlefiel​d 3

    Review: Battlefiel​d 3

    It has been a long time since Battlefield 1942 came out in 2002 and there have been nearly twenty releases in the Battlefield series since. Now what has been called the next step in the Battlefield franchise has arrived.  The package that is Battlefield 3 […]

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  • Review: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

    Review: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

    For over sixteen years, the Elder Scrolls series of games have made their mark in the role playing landscape with expansive worlds and non-linear gameplay.  There were some spin-off games in the series that were more focused in their scope, but the main, numbered titles […]

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  • Review: Batman: Arkham City

    Review: Batman: Arkham City

    As the sequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum, a game lauded by many as the best title of 2009, there were concerns that Arkham City would just be a quick slop job designed to cash in on the success of the first game.  It is probably […]

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  • Review: Xotic

    Review: Xotic

    As there are a lot of first-person shooters out there, it can be to a developer’s benefit to have their game be different.  A hook of some sort that tells the game buying public, “This isn’t like other things.  You can appreciate this on a […]

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  • Review: Crysis (PS3)

    Review: Crysis (PS3)

    When the game Crysis came out for PC in 2007, it was touted as the next big technological step in graphics and world immersion.  At the time, people were going around saying crazy things about how there probably wasn’t a system available capable of running […]

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