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Drop The Controller, Pick Up Some Dice And Start Getting Into Board Games
Board games are in so many ways the spiritual precursors to videogames, the not-so-distant ancestor of our digital hobby. What is a videogame at its core; a set of interwoven mechanics that dictate the player can and cannot do, hopefully resulting in a positive, fun experience. Of course the formula has evolved over the…
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New Hitman Game Delayed Until Next Year
IO Interactive have announced that their new Hitman game, which was due to arrive in December of this year for Xbox One, PS4 and PC, has been delayed until March 2016. “We’re going for a new release model where we put out a good chunk of the game when it begins and then release the…
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BioShock Collection Rumoured To Be Coming To Xbox One And PS4
South African outlet Raru.co.za has listed the BioShock Collection for Xbox One and PS4, claiming that the package will be coming out on November 27th. Of course this could be some sort of mistake, but Raru does have a certain reputation for leaking things well ahead of their actual release, and a BioShock collection of some…
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Mad Max Review – No Fast And Furiosa Joke Here
Platforms: Xbox One, PS4 and PC Reviewed On: PC Developer: Avalanche Studios Publisher: Warner Bros. Singleplayer: Yes Multiplayer: No Review copy of the game provided free of charge by the publisher. Earlier this year Mad Max: Fury Road was unleashed upon the world and the world responded with nothing but love for its glorious action…
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Act of Aggression Review – It’s The 1990s All Over Again
Platforms: PC Developer: Eugen Publisher: Focus Home Interactive Singleplayer: Yes Multiplayer: Yes Despite the fact that I’ve never been very good at them, often outclassed in the competitive multiplayer side of things, my love affair with real-time strategy games has been a long one that began with what remains one of my favorite titles of…
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Big Pharma Review – There’s No Cure For Being A Money Whore
Platforms: PC Reviewed On: PC Developer: Twice Circled Publisher: Positech Games Singleplayer: Yes Multiplayer: No Inevitably when you base a game around something as controversial as the pharmaceutical industry people are going to talk. Reading the forums on Steam it’s funny to see how some people are calling the developers out for daring to base…
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2013 Deadpool Game Being Ported To Xbox One And PS4
In a move clearly designed to capitalise on the popularity of the forthcoming Deadpool movie where Ryan Reynolds is set to don the sticky red and black suit Activision have announced plans to port the 2013 Deadpool videogame to Xbox One and PS4. It’ll arrive on November 20th as both a digital download and a…
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Release Date And Iffy Pre-Order System Announced
Square Enix have revealed that Deus Ex: Mankind Divided will arrive on February 23rd, 2016. They also announced a fascinating but frankly disturbing pre-order system dubbed “Augment your Pre-order,” which combines pretty much everything bad about the current pre-order culture into a single, irritating idea. Pre-ordering is inherently anti-consumer, and has only become worse over…
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Zombi Review – ZombiU Risen From The Dead
Platforms: PC, Xbox One, PS4 Reviewed On: PC Developer: Straight Right Publisher: Ubisoft Singleplayer: Yes Multiplayer: No Review code supplied by the publisher. Released back in 2012 ZombiU for the WiiU was an attempt to show that Nintendo’s console wasn’t just all about brightly colored plumbers and party games. For Ubisoft, though, the game didn’t seem…
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