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When Motorstorm first debuted along with the PS3 here in NZ, many people didn’t quite know how to react. The console was new, we were blinded by Sony’s bright lights and flashy marketing jargon and Motorstorm looked fantastic. However, the difficulty level and tough-to-master controls made the game
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My crew and I have entered the bank and scoped the place out. Two of them find the bank manager, who has the keycard that we need; while I wait in queue at the tellers, and another teammate is upstairs with a view of the whole room. Once the time
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Bioware’s 2002 classic Neverwinter Nights practically reinvented the Role Playing genre on PC, adding in copious amounts of nifty new stuff (not least of which was the killer Dungeon Master mode, allowing your pen & paper role playing group to transfer their gaming experience to the computer, complete with
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Oh yeah, those lovable eyeliner-wearing, grog-swilling, parrot-accessorising scoundrels have come to Sims Land, in this new expansion - er, adventure pack - for The Sims Medieval. Remember The Sims Medieval? It was the breakaway title from EA that took out most of the spontaneous sandbox play from The Sims 3,
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While gamers are saving their pennies for the big-name titles, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning may have slipped past their radars - I know it slipped past mine when it released last month. But a copy for the PC graced my mailbox last week, and I’m certainly glad it did.
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What a difference five years makes. Back in ‘07 I was pondering the fate of a favourite genre; now I can’t believe how decisively Adventure Gaming has come back onto the scene. From Dreamfall to Phoenix Wright, and more recently Heavy Rain and Gemini Rue, gamers are gobbling up
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Another day, another adventure game. The renaissance of the point & click is in full effect and, I couldn't be happier. Today's title, developed by XII Games, can be downloaded for just a few bucks; to find out if you, too, should jump in, read on.
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What do you get when you take the tried-and-true formula for and flip it on its head? The answer is (apparently) Anomaly: Warzone Earth, an indie title from 11 Bit Studios, where the player controls invading forces battling through tons of defensive guns. First, let’s elaborate on this "
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Built with the same engine as 2008's Spore, Darkspore is an action role playing game (RPG) in the same vein as Diablo and its ilk. There are a few things that set it apart: Darkspore has a sci-fi setting instead of fantasy, and also has the player using
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DC Universe Online is a new MMO that lets players create their own hero or villain to fight aside such comic icons as Superman, Wonder Woman, The Joker and Lex Luthor. But what happens when you give the unwashed masses a taste of power and let them loose in Metropolis
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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