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Divinity II: Ego Draconis lets down the player in more ways than one.

More and more, the influence of the casual gaming market is being felt in traditional or hardcore games such as RPGs and adventure games. Simplified interfaces and gameplay are becoming more common – complicated multi-button attack combos are being replaced by single button attacks, huge inventory lists are narrowed down to short categories and icons,…

Vitals Game: Red Dead Redemption Developer: Rockstar Games Release: Available Now Platform: XBox 360, PlayStation 3 I suppose I should start out by confessing that I had to invoke the Twelve-Hour rule on Red Dead Redemption. The Twelve-Hour Rule absolves me as a reviewer (and a gamer, first and foremost) from having to play more…

Alan Wake is a game that puts its protagonist in a situation where they must reunite with a loved one by using light to overcome the darkness.  Videogames usually have similar struggles occurring within them to give the player enough incentive to take part in the game and keep playing.  But there’s also the meta-struggle…

. Released earlier this month, NIER‘s first (and thus far only) downloadable content is available on both Xbox LIVE Marketplace and PlayStation Network for 560 space bucks / $6.99.  The DLC pack, entitled “The World of Recycled Vessel”, will see you assuming the role of Nier the younger, previously found only in the Japanese PS3…

VITALS Game: NIER (NieR Gestalt) Developer: Cavia Released: April 27, 2010 Platform: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 . I began playing NIER fully expecting to hate it. I looked forward to ripping it apart come time for review.  I actually took notes while playing just to be ready for all of the awful dialogue and design…

You could call the original Picross DS, the bastard lovechild of Sudoku and Minesweeper, one of the most addictive puzzle games on a hand-held console.  Using numeric clues, you use logic and the process of elimination to correctly fill grids with patterns of dots that result in a picture once the puzzle has been solved.…

How to Train Your Dragon is better than being just a licensed game, but it doesn’t surpass mediocrity at being a better video game.

By: Nathan Andrews, Editor Part 1 – The Single Player Experience Let’s face it. From the beginning of the franchise, with the fantastic Battlefield: 1942, DICE’s Battlefield games have been about one thing: Multi-player combat. The entire Battlefield series set the bar for online multi-player combat, and they set it high. Prior to Bad Company…

VITALS Game: God of War 3 Developer: Sony (Santa Monica Studio) Released: March 16, 2010 Platform: PlayStation 3 . I’ll start by saying that I, Aaron Kirchhoff, am a God of War fanboy.  I, without even owning a PS2 at the time, purchased and played the original God of War on a friend’s console.  I…