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  • Updated Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer Infographic

    Updated Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer Infographic

    Multiplayer in Mass Effect 3. I don’t think many gamers took it seriously before the game launched or expected it to be a long-lasting draw once the campaign had been completed. However, in the two months since its release, the multiplayer component appears to have...

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  • First Look at Crysis 3 Gameplay

    First Look at Crysis 3 Gameplay

    Following up on the game announcement and a quick-and-dirty teaser trailer from two weeks back, Crysis 3 super jumps back into the spotlight with its first official gameplay trailer. OK, so I’m a bit tardy on posting this one, but it’s never too late to...

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  • NYC Becomes a Real Urban Jungle in Crysis 3

    NYC Becomes a Real Urban Jungle in Crysis 3

    Many players were disappointed by the narrower focus of Crysis 2‘s New York City setting compared to the open jungle landscapes of the first game. I didn’t see it that way as the jungle setting of the original just served to make getting from point...

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  • Review: Mass Effect 3

    Review: Mass Effect 3

    This is a review of Return of the Jedi. Another way to encapsulate that idea might have been to write that the big problem in reviewing a game like Mass Effect 3 (“ME3”), is to say that all of the problems that existed for movie...

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  • Review: Mass Effect: Infiltrator

    Review: Mass Effect: Infiltrator

    Many RPGs have fiction tie-ins.  Part of the appeal of any good role-playing game is a detailed setting that serves as the backdrop of the characters’ actions, hopefully ones chosen by the player.  Since fully fleshing out a world cannot always be accomplished with narrative,...

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  • Review: FIFA Street

    Review: FIFA Street

    There was a time when the concept of “arcade sports” meant wild, crazy and (often literally) on fire. NFL players jumped off alley walls wearing more bling than Flavor Flav. Second basemen, engulfed in searing flames, cold-cocked runners as they tried to stretch for a...

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  • EA Launches Tiger Woods 13 With a Kinect Lifestyle Demonstration

    EA Launches Tiger Woods 13 With a Kinect Lifestyle Demonstration

    Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 putts onto store shelves this week, the Xbox 360 version getting top billing as EA Sports launches its latest golf sim with a Kinect-focused lifestyle trailer demonstrating how the game implements full-body, controller-free, voice-enabled mechanics for the first time in...

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  • Final Fantasy XIII-2′s Heroes Dress Up Like Commander Shepard

    Final Fantasy XIII-2′s Heroes Dress Up Like Commander Shepard

    Mass Effect 3 is everywhere right now. About the only place the game can’t be found is in a downloadable content crossover with Final Fantasy XIII-2. Oh wait… Never mind. My bad! Piggybacking off of the smash-hit success of BioWare’s trilogy-closing space opera, Square Enix...

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  • App Review: Mass Effect 3 Datapad

    App Review: Mass Effect 3 Datapad

    With this game tie-in you get marginally more than you pay for.  The Mass Effect 3 Datapad app for iOS is a product that does not add much to the Mass Effect 3 experience, but it is free.  To have any worth to most users,...

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  • Review: Warp

    Review: Warp

    The telefrag: a convention of some first-person shooters, particularly older ones, where one thing being teleported into the same place as another causes death.  What was at one point largely a way to force players not to stand in a spawn point with a shotgun,...

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