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Review: Wheels of Destruction (PS3)

May 10, 2012

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Wheels of Destruction adds a slick coat of paint to the tried and true car combat genre. Does it make the grade, or crash and burn? Car combat hasn’t really changed all that much from the earliest days of the genre. If you really think about it, are things all…

Retro Review: Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards (Wii Virtual Console)

May 10, 2012

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Many key Nintendo franchises made their way over to the Nintendo 64, bringing some modernization along the way. Rather than try to live up to the 3D overhauls made by Zelda and Mario, Kirby stayed true to the classic formula. Unfortunately, this also made for a very safe, if not…

Xbox Live Update- yep, it’s Minecraft time

May 10, 2012

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Is there anything other than Minecraft in this week’s update to Xbox’s online marketplace? Yes. Is there anything that you’re likely to care about? Uh, no probably not. I have to admit, I never really got into the whole Minecraft ‘thing’. It just didn’t hold any interest for me, but…

zombie-pimples

May 9, 2012

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Does the idea of playing another zombie game leave you flat? What if I told you they had giant zit heads and you got to play dermatologist? Yes, giant zit heads, you read right. See, in Zombie Burst on iOS most of the world’s populace has been turned into zeds…

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May 9, 2012

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The grandaddy of the first person shooter is 20 years old. Wolfenstein 3D kicked off the FPS craze only a scant pair of decades ago- and now it’s free to play. One of the first PC games that I personally COULD NOT STOP playing, Wolf 3D was a classic the…

Review: Conquest: Medieval Realms (iPad)

May 9, 2012

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The Lordz Game studio is one of my favourite game developers. These are the guys behind the rather excellent Panzer Corps, and the Commander series of games that has appeared on everything from PC to Nintendo DS. Consistently, Lordz produces wargames that are a nice mix of accessibility and depth.…

Serious Sam HD Second Encounter DLC announced, free multiplayer to be released on May 15th

May 9, 2012

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While Serious Sam: The First Encounter embodied almost everything fun about the purely twitch-based shooters of the 90s of PC gaming, Serious Sam: The Second Encounter was almost undeniably better. It was more crazy, more varied, and a bit more brutal. It’s also not hard to argue it may be…

Tecmo Koei is killing it in the market right now

May 9, 2012

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Tecmo Koei is going good in the market. Even given the critical panning that Ninja Gaiden 3 suffered (not by us, mind you), the publisher sold 630,000 copies of the game, and profit for the company was up 69 per cent across the board. Plenty of good quality Warriors releases…

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May 9, 2012

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There’s an interesting piece over at IGN about one of the more prominent PlayStation Mini developers. Firma Studios has done a great job giving gamers great Minis to play (Zombie Tycoon, A Space Shooter for 2 Bucks), but, dissatisfied with the return on investment, they’re looking to produce full-featured PSN…

Retro Review: Jumping Flash! (PSN)

May 8, 2012

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Super Mario 64 is often cited as the first major 3D platformer, but that’s just what it was – major. Several other titles beat Nintendo’s launch title to the punch, and although it differs greatly in mechanics, Jumping Flash is one of them. It’s not nearly as impressive as it would…

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