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Game Review – Mass Effect 2 (PS3)

Space. The final frontier. Well, actually there’s enough movies, comics, tv series, books and video games based on space exploration that it doesn’t really seem all that “virgin territory” anymore. However, the science fiction side of role playing games is relatively untouched with only a handful actually being a successful series. The last one of …

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Game Review: Sonic Colours (Wii)

Okay, hands up all those people who remember when Sonic the Hedgehog games were good. Now, out of those three people, who has any hope left for the blue rodent? That’s right, none of you and you have very good reason. It’s not even a case of “once burnt, twice shy”, Sega have been pumping …

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Game Review – Marvel Vs. Capcom 3

Crossover games are great. And the crazier the better. What would a fight be like between a monkey and a shark? Or a disco samurai and an electric spetznaz? TV shows like “greatest warrior” only work on statistics and “what ifs” and “maybes” but the beauty of the video game industry is we get to …

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Game Review – Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (Xbox & PS3)

I love games that come out where I can gloat and say “I told you so”. Usually it’s when a game gets hyped up and I tell everyone it’s gunna be crap. This time around however, it’s the other side of the same coin. I’ve been telling everyone to get their hands on this new …

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Game Review: Donkey Kong Country Returns (Wii)

Ah, it’s finally here. The reason why so many Nintendo fans, the real DIE HARD fans, still count the Super Nintendo as their all-time favourite console (and rightly so). Sure, Mario Kart started a lot of addictions, some of us even started our Final Fantasy obsessions on the 16bit wonder machine but the game that …

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Game Review: Goldeneye (Wii)

The true gaming royalty is a list of undeniable greatness throughout videogaming history. Mario, Halo, Duke Nukem, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Zelda, Doom, Sonic…. let’s face it, the list is quite long now but most of these games have numerous titles in their franchises and their roots have been elaborated on and fleshed out, given …

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