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  • Review: Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

    Review: Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

    When it comes to games, a name says a lot about what players expect to get out of the experience. Whether there is a 2 or a 14 after a title, players have an expectation that there will be a familiarity to the gameplay as […]

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  • Review: South Park Pinball

    Review: South Park Pinball

    Any time Zen Studios announces a new pinball table, I find myself giddy with anticipation. Usually Zen teases a table months in advance. This time around, when the South Park tables were announced on the first of the month, there was almost no time for […]

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  • Extra Life: Gaming for a Cause

    Extra Life: Gaming for a Cause

    With all the negative that seems to be focused on gaming due to the circus known as #GamerGate, it is nice to highlight a moment in time when gaming is being used in a positive light. This weekend gamers from all over are spending their […]

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  • Review: Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments

    Review: Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments

    Designing a game around the world’s greatest detective is not an enviable task. No, I’m not talking about Batman–Rocksteady has cracked that case with the Arkham titles. I’m talking about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. Nevermind the BBC’s modern take on the genius detective, Frogwares’ […]

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  • Review: Diablo III: Reaper of Souls – Ultimate Evil Edition

    Review: Diablo III: Reaper of Souls – Ultimate Evil Edition

    By now I’m guessing regular readers of this site would think I’m tired playing Diablo 3, having already reviewed the original PC release and its Reaper of Souls expansion. But I’m not. When I first played it on PC two years ago, I found the game […]

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  • Review: Whispering Willows

    Review: Whispering Willows

    Even though I love video games, I also grew up reading all manner of horror fiction. Splatter punk, demonic possession, supernatural, and gothic horror were all sub genres that helped form my dark and twisted self of today. While I devoured Stephen King as a young […]

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  • Review: Marvel Pinball Deadpool

    Review: Marvel Pinball Deadpool

    In addition to getting to spend some quality Marvel Pinball time with the Guardians of the Galaxy, I also got to shoot the bull with the Merc with the Mouth. Deadpool’s very own table came out at the end of June, but I didn’t get […]

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  • Review: Marvel Pinball Guardians of the Galaxy

    Review: Marvel Pinball Guardians of the Galaxy

    Here’s the thing about pinball: It is always the same. Shoot a ball up to the top of the slanted table, forcing the ball to roll back down where a set of flippers is used to keep the ball from falling all the way to the […]

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  • Review: Blue Estate

    Review: Blue Estate

    Comic books are a passive activity. Opening the book and turning pages are the extent of the activity related to reading a comic, so it makes sense that they often translate well from one passive medium to another, like movies, without much effort by the […]

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  • Review: The Stanley Parable

    Review: The Stanley Parable

    Originally created as a Source engine Half-Life 2 mod, Galactic Cafe has taken the original idea behind The Stanley Parable and crafted it into a full standalone release, telling the story of a mindless office worker named Stanley who suddenly finds himself in his place […]

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