Review: UFC Undisputed 2010
UFC Undisputed 2010 is the sequel to last year’s UFC Undisputed 2009. Last year’s title was a good game that lacked in some key areas. The most noticeable was a complete lack of left handed, or southpaw, fighters. Lack of features like that hurt what was overall a well made game. With 2010, THQ and ...
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Review: League of Legends
League of Legends is like going out on a blind date with a boring guy to a restaurant that has free breadsticks and lots of alcohol. You don’t have to pay for anything, and there’s enough there to keep you entertained, but it’s a little boring and the company isn’t great. League of Legends is ...
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Review: Alan Wake
Alan Wake was supposed to be an early highlight for the Xbox 360; proof that it was both a powerful machine and capable of giving us entertaining, visually stunning games. Sadly Alan Wake fell by the wayside, and games like Mass Effect took up the crown of gaming quality as Wake began to look like ...
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Review: Splinter Cell Conviction
Sam is angry, that much is certain. He moves now with a predator like pace, an animal let wild onto the streets. His every actions exude both extreme strength and perfect calm. He’s also hurt however – his daughter dead and the actions he performed in Double Agent have left him a shattered man no ...
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Madonna/Whore
How to Avoid Turning Female Gamers Off When entertaining myself, especially when I was younger, I was always kind of quietly resigned to pretending that I was a boy. This came up everywhere: movies, TV shows, even the Goosebumps style Choose Your Own Adventure books forced you to be a boy. The biggest heartbreak came ...
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Review: Metro 2033
Ukraine likes Fallout it seems. Who could blame them? It is a pretty good game – a hallmark of the PC RPG and a game that is referred to and respected by many developers. There’s just one little problem though with Ukraine’s love: they may be missing the point somewhat. Fallout, for all it’s set ...
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Review: Final Fantasy XIII
To some, 13 is an unlucky number, and I wonder if that holds true in Japan as well. Its industry is in the middle of a crisis in that it doesn’t know how to improve, how to change and how to get back out there as a powerhouse for RPG’s. The likes of Fallout 3 ...
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P For Piracy
I have something to confess, something I’m reminded to be ashamed of whenever I see my peers unabashedly and almost proudly practicing the act over and over again. It’s piracy I’m talking about, a phenomenon that continues to plague the video game industry relentlessly, and the confession involves my previous, brief practice of it. Where ...
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