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I Am Alive – Review

I Am Alive – Review

At Ubisoft’s 2008 E3 press conference the first trailer for I Am Alive was shown off. Gamers [ everywhere were intrigued at a potential game in a post-apocolyptic setting that put a strong emphasis on realism. As time passed and no updates were given on …

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Awesomenauts Review (Xbox 360, PS3)

Awesomenauts eschews the genre’s real-time strategy origins and top-down perspective in favour of a more console-friendly side-scrolling aesthetic. Despite this fundamental change, the game will still feel very familiar to MOBA players – two teams of players (preferably human, but there are bots available in …

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Less Than The Sum Of Its Parts

Modern 4X games like Civilization V typically alternate between two phases: building an empire by founding and developing cities, and blowing up everyone else’s empire with the armies you’ve been recruiting. The lines often blur, and some games and playthroughs emphasize one to the near-total …

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The Walking Dead: Episode One – A New Day (X360) – Review

The Walking Dead franchise has been one of the multi-media runaway success stories of this millennium. First conceived as a gruesome black-and-white monthly comic book series in 2004 by Robert Kirkman, and still going strong 96 issues later, it was also the subject of an …

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Risen 2 Review

Pirates meet RPG in Piranha Bytes latest RPG – but is it as good as that sounds? Find out in our review. Risen 2: Dark Waters proves that RPG developers can be a fickle lot. Once they stray from convention and offer twists on standard …

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