Divinity II: Ego Draconis lets down the player in more ways than one.
The SideQuest Episode 204: PrE3dictions 2010
Dali, Yaniv, and Mike are finally rejoined by Ryan, who has awakened from his hibernation to spill the beans about Alan Wake’s greatness. Mike discusses his sourness on Red Dead Redemption. Yaniv plays a game (for realz!) and Dali is still trudging through Final Fantasy XIII, but spares the recap and decides against damaging the ears of the listeners.
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Steam on XBox? Grand Theft Auto V? Star Fox? Killzone 3? Yup!
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LTTP Review: Prince of Persia (Xbox 360, PS3)
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,…
Review: Red Dead Redemption (Xbox 360, PS3)
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…
Review: Alan Wake (Xbox 360)
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…
My Desk is 8-Bit
My Desk is 8-Bit, by Alex Varanese, is a conceptual video done with stop-motion animation. The video depicts an 8-bit sidescrolling helicopter flying and blasting through a city, complete with explosions, lost lives, and blocky graphics.
DLC Review: NIER – The World of Recycled Vessel
. 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…
Review: NIER (PS3, Xbox 360)
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…
Acquisition Nation
In recent months, the video game industry has seen the same hard financial times that the rest of the world has. There are, it seems, plenty of publishers and developers with targets on their foreheads, ready for acquisition.

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