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It just wouldn’t be The Sims without yet more ways for you to make a fool of yourself in public. Fortunately the latest expansion pack for The Sims 3, called Late Night, brings skinny dipping, table dancing, bad cover bands, puking in public, and yes, vampires, to the mix.
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Although its title places it almost 60 years in the future, Anno 2070 is very much a game for our present historical moment. It takes place in a world ravaged by climate change. Rising sea levels have altogether drowned many low-lying countries, completely changing the face of global politics. The
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It’s always hard constructing a detective story. They are hard enough to write – let alone to play. There’s just something about cramming that much intrigue and mystery into one discreet package that most authors, creators, and game designers find a little challenging. Not that they haven’t given
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CrimeCraft is a gritty multiplayer shooter from Vogster Entertainment, although they like to call it a “Persistent World Next-gen Shooter” (PWNS, get it?). Essentially it's an MMO shooter with some decent role-playing elements included. When it was first released back in 2009 it didn’t receive the best
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What do you do when your world’s been destroyed? That’s the question immediately thrown into the protagonist’s (known only as The Kid) face in Bastion. A minimalist presentation masks fairly heavy themes that would be trite in any other game, but Bastion isn’t just any game:
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Codename: Panzers Cold War is not a benchmark real-time strategy game. With the massive amounts of RTS titles that have recently been released for the PC it seems like it will have a hard time reaching gaming audiences due to a somewhat overbearing obscurity. It also does not help that
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Independent games always surprise me - not because they are always amazing, but because they always come up with something new. And that’s heartening, even if it's just a new take on an old format. The Book of Unwritten Tales, by German Developer King Art, is based
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Cogs is a classy little game. It’s an indie steampunk puzzle game, that gives the same sort of pleasure as a well-oiled piece of machinery. From the opening splash screen, with its sounds of whirring brass cogs as the main menu rolls into view, to the mind-bendingly difficult puzzles
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It’s been a while now since we’ve had a good old-fashioned city building release, so it was a pleasant surprise to be able to play and review CitiesXL, from Monte Cristo, the French simulation games company. While CitiesXL will be familiar to gamers who have played any of
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Waaay back in 2010, Conrad took a at Runaway: A Twist of Fate, a.k.a. the third instalment of Pendulo Studios’ Runaway series. I’m sure most of you know it: the adventure game trilogy about Brian Bosco, the nerdy physicist who accidentally saves a beautiful gal from some
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Launching an MMO in 2009 is easy enough. Getting people interested in it is challenging. Keeping those people you convinced to try it after their first month is up? That’s something few recent MMOs have had anything more than moderate success with. There’s a giant elephant in the
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Just when we thought it was all over, along comes another expansion pack for The Sims 2! The latest (and last) expansion is called Apartment Life, and includes some awesome new features that really add a great deal to the game - but is this release coming to us too