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  • Review: Nexuiz

    Review: Nexuiz

    Posted on March 26, 2012 | 2 Comments
    It’s time to party like it’s 1999 in Nexuiz, a multiplayer shooter that manages to accomplish what its designers apparently set out to do: Recreate the same kind of deathmatch vibe that Unreal Tournament gave us when it rocket-jumped onto PCs back at the tail […]

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  • Review: Warp

    Review: Warp

    Posted on March 1, 2012 | No Comments
    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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  • Nexuiz’s Dynamic Mutators in Action

    Nexuiz’s Dynamic Mutators in Action

    Posted on February 16, 2012 | No Comments
    Launching February 29th as part of the Xbox Live Arcade ‘House Party’ promotion, with late arrivals on PC and PS3 digital download networks scheduled for the spring, Nexuiz is a modern take on old school multiplayer first-person twitch arena shooters, fueled by CryENGINE 3 tech […]

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  • Microsoft’s ‘House Party’ Promotion Brings Beyond Good & Evil and Torchlight to XBLA

    Microsoft’s ‘House Party’ Promotion Brings Beyond Good & Evil and Torchlight to XBLA

    Posted on January 6, 2011 | No Comments
    ‘House Party,’ Microsoft’s first big Xbox Live Arcade promotion for 2011, is shaping up to be a real doozy when it kicks off five weeks of downloadable game releases beginning February 16th with the debut of Konami’s Contra successor, Hard Corps: Uprising. After that, the […]

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