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EVE Online has somewhat of a reputation for being a cutthroat, unforgiving game. So is Dust 514, a first-person shooter running parallel to the EVE universe with cross-game interaction, financial consequences for death, a complicated levelling system, the ability to capture planets, manage inter-corporate wars and even influence the NPC factions. The whole thing seems inaccessible to anyone who hasn't played the game before. But is it? ...

Return To Greenvale It’s been quite a ride for the developer known as “Swery65” and his cult hit, Deadly Premonition. What started as a way-too-obvious homage to Twin Peaks morphed into the game known as Red Seeds Profile in Japan and was finally released as an obscure 360 only title for Western shores back in 2010. That’s when the weirdness began. This is a game that, by...

The inclusion of state-of-the-art realism in modern videogames is a tricky topic with many avenues available to development teams keen to push the envelope. Some will burn through millions of dollars ensuring that the latest and greatest shooter to hit the market has the most ultra-realistic environments available. Others will be content with engineering a lopsided museum of modern art and merely encourage...

Know When to Hold ‘Em When Poker Night at the Inventory was released in 2010, Telltale Games was a relatively unknown developer. The company had a small but loyal following amongst the glorious PC master race due to episodic classics such as Sam and Max and Tales of Monkey Island, yet they were hardly a mainstream player. Things are much different...

Are You Ready For The Rad-ness? The typical kind of DLC gamers expect now is pretty pedestrian; some new skins for characters or weapons, or if you’re really lucky, a new, bite sized adventure that carries on the shenanigans of the core game that was originally purchased. Ubisoft however, have done something unusual; the latest add-on, downloadable content to last year’s Far Cry 3 has absolutely nothing...

There's a certain kind of party where before you've even managed to remove your jacket and shoes you're pretty sure you want to leave. A quick glance around the room and you notice that only one other person (who you don't even like) has shown up. There's no music on and the host is in a bad mood. You've come, though, and it would be...

The Indies Keep Coming Sony continues its mandate to bring unique, independent games to the PS3 and Vita (one of the reasons probably being the Vita is in dire need of titles) and Thomas Was Alone is the latest addition to the parade. Like quite a few of these indie titles, this isn’t actually a new game, having originally debuted last year on the PC and Mac....

Finally the school yard arguments can be settled. Who would win in a fight between Batman and Wonder Woman? Could the Flash run circles around Green Lantern? Would Doomsday really kill Superman in a rematch? Injustice: Gods Among Us might not send out the signal through its title to anyone other than the most dedicated DC fan, but this just might be the finest superhero fighting game to ever...

If you haven’t been following the development of Defiance, roughly two years ago the SyFy channel finally got the ball rolling on their dream to create a trans-media event. They made a single universe split down the center of your television screen. Coming in through the cable box is a weekly, hour long science fiction show about a human-alien colony trying to survive in a dystopian version of St....

Guacamelee — a game in which a Mexican wrestler can transform into a chicken to reach hidden areas, where he might learn from his mystical goat master how to suplex skeletons in sombreros. Sure, it may sound like someone drank too much tequila out in the hot sun, but it’s also one of the best indie experiences on your Playstation 3 or PS Vita. The creation of...

It’s pretty obvious just by reading the title that Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel is meant to be played with a friend. You and your friend (or AI partner if you decide to go about this game alone) will work your way through each scenario, for the most part, together, and that’s the best part about this game. Playing with a friend is enjoyable; figuring out who is...

Poking The Beehive When Bioshock first landed on consoles many console veterans didn’t know what to expect. PC gamers, on the other hand, expected a dark, moody, atmospheric game that breathed life into its characters via audio recordings, and put players through a gaming experience by turns filled with unique mechanics and occasionally even threw out some scares. What no one expected was the level of uncompromising...

Q-School I may not be the biggest golf fan in the world but the game has certainly been a familiar friend over the course of my life. When I was in my early teens I actually played golf on a regular basis. I was never the best, and it was common for me to turn in scores of 110 or even 120 on the par 72 course....

Going into Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3, I had next to no experience with the franchise, aside from a couple brief matches with one of the earlier games in the Ultimate Ninja Storm series. I haven’t ever read the manga nor have I seen an episode of the anime. So I went into this game as a complete blank slate Naruto-wise, and that had me a little nervous....

  Revisiting The Rage The tale of Kratos came to a pretty definitive conclusion with God of War III, but naturally, with a series this successful, it’s hard for Sony to walk away. As a result, we once more travel to the past of the god/family/everyone else killer to get a little more insight into what drives a man to such extremes. Mind...

DarkStalkers Resurrection is a competent re-release and upgrade to a storied, and somewhat neglected franchise. The only real let-down is the lack of the sheer shine of a new title - but, the wait for fans is over, in some sense of the word. It may be something we've played upwards of 15 years ago - but for Morrigan junkies, it's better than nothing. Street Fighter ,...

Now that it’s March once again, that means it’s time for yet another installment of Sony’s venerable baseball franchise, MLB The Show. When I reviewed last year’s installment, I waxed philosophic about how each installment of a sports franchise is scrutinized closely for being worth another investment, to justify its existence as more than just a series of updated rosters and players. MLB 12 was a fantastic game, which...

A Walk On The Pharmaceutical Side The Atelier series has always been more of a marginal franchise compared to the larger, more established JRPG properties like the mighty Final Fantasy or even Namco’s Tales series. Despite that smaller niche within a niche, Gust has managed to crank out 14 of these games since 1997, and the latest one, Atelier Ayesha carries on the tradition, albeit in a...

New Beginnings Reboots have been a pretty big thing in recent years. They have a singular purpose; taking an established property that is well known—and perhaps a tad too familiar to audiences by this point—and going back to the start. Reboots tinker with origins, change details and subsequently perceptions of the property, hopefully also changing the attitude of the audience, making a stale character seem new, fresh...

One of the prettiest shooter franchises in modern memory is back for another high jumping, car kicking, cloaking good time. Crysis 3 again has players nano-suiting it up as series protagonist "Prophet" returns to New York City 23 years after the events of Crysis 2. It's the city so nice the series has visited twice. This time around the bright lights of the city that never sleeps have been...