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  • Review: Thor: God of Thunder

    Review: Thor: God of Thunder

    Thor is the ‘God of Thunder’, but is he also the god of superhero movies and licensed video game tie-ins? No, I’m afraid he is not. Well, I don’t know about the movie side of things (the reception has largely been positive from what I’ve...

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  • Review: Portal 2

    Review: Portal 2

    Portal is probably THE surprise hit of the past decade, mostly because…well, it was such a big surprise! Most gamers went into The Orange Box seeing the game as more of a side curiosity to play with once they were done with Half-Life 2 and...

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  • Review: The Tomb Raider Trilogy

    Review: The Tomb Raider Trilogy

    Ever since the first Tomb Raider, the series had been in gradual decline for years, hitting rock bottom with the notoriously buggy Angel of Darkness (it wasn’t as bad as most critics made it out to be, but it definitely played like an unfinished product)....

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  • Review: Legend of Fae

    Review: Legend of Fae

    The indie gaming scene is really booming right now, for all platforms but particularly on the PC. I swear – every week it seems like there is some cool new game sprouting up out of nowhere and blooming into a hit on digital download sites...

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  • Review: Magicka: Vietnam

    Review: Magicka: Vietnam

    Back when I reviewed Magicka in early March I made a strong case that you should buy this game immediately! Now that the Vietnam DLC is out … I am struggling a bit with what to recommend. To put it in perspective, I started writing...

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  • Review: The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky

    Review: The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky

    It is very common to use acronyms to condense longer titles – LotR: RotK for Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, SW:KotOR for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and so on. The Legend of Heroes franchise is not new to the...

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  • Review: Split/Second (PSP)

    Review: Split/Second (PSP)

    Last spring Disney Interactive released Split/Second on PC and consoles, a thrilling arcade racer that got top-notch reviews for providing tense racing action and an overall great experience. The game has since been ported over to the PSP, so let’s see how it plays! Split/Second...

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  • Review: PlayStation Move Heroes

    Review: PlayStation Move Heroes

    Whenever a major franchise gets outsourced or transferred to a different developer than the original creators, the results are rarely good. Spyro plummeted once he left Insomniac’s care, Crash Bandicoot fell off when Naughty Dog moved on to new things, Treyarch’s Call of Duty games...

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  • Review: MLB 11: The Show (PSP)

    Review: MLB 11: The Show (PSP)

    Every year you can count on the release of sports games to mark the new season for each sport. And while there may still be snow on the ground at my house, baseball season is here, and with it a new release of MLB ‘The...

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  • Discussion Review: Crysis 2

    Discussion Review: Crysis 2

    New York City, and the human race, is on the verge of annihilation as a viral outbreak and alien invasion turn the Big Apple into a chaotic war zone between U.S. Marines, a private military force called C.E.L.L., and a race of squid-like aliens known...

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