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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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  • Screenshot Saturday: PAX East 2012 Edition

    Screenshot Saturday: PAX East 2012 Edition

    PAX East rolled into Boston this weekend, so for our latest edition of Screenshot Saturday we’re taking a closer look at some of the show’s headline games as well as various other gameplay images that surfaced over the past handful or so days. Browse along […]

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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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  • Kingdoms of Amalur’s First DLC Expansion Tells the Legend of Dead Kel

    Kingdoms of Amalur’s First DLC Expansion Tells the Legend of Dead Kel

    Have you finished exploring Amalur’s Faelands yet? No? Me neither–too much Vita and other stuff has been stealing away from my Amalurian adventures. Well, don’t rush too much because there’s still nearly a month to go before the already massive open fantasy world grows even […]

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  • Review: Shank 2

    Review: Shank 2

    Side-scrolling games, once considered the golden age form of game design, were the mainstay on early consoles because of the limitations of hardware processing power.  But as hardware has become more advanced, game development has also advanced.  3D objects have replaced flat sprites and game […]

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