Review: Dirty Bomb

Review: Dirty Bomb
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Given the fact that the game is in its beta phase, it would be easy for it to be derivative and buggy. Surprisingly, this is not the case with Dirty Bomb. … read more

Review: Turmoil

Review: Turmoil
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Turmoil is an economy-building/money-making game that was inspired by the 19th century oil rush in America. … read more

Review: Sorcery 3

Review: Sorcery 3
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Sorcery 3 prides itself on being the open-world equivalent of traditional, linear gamebooks, and it’s an absolute blast to play, especially if you’re carrying a character over from the previous titles to really ramp up the time-traveling challenge. … read more

Review: Fighties

Review: Fighties
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The amount of tweaking needed to balance a roster of unique characters is something that takes dedication, so I was surprised to find that dedication outside of Street Fighter or Super Smash Bros. in the form of Fighties—a small title developed by a team of two people—for $5.00 on Steam. … read more

Review: 3D Streets of Rage 2

Review: 3D Streets of Rage 2
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3D Streets of Rage 2 Sega / M2 Reviewed on: 3DS (exclusive) Street: 07.23 Side-scrolling brawlers don’t really have a home on current-gen consoles, but with the wave of retro gaming, helped in part by Nintendo’s Virtual Console, they have a place carved out for them on handhelds. Streets of Rage 2 originally launched on

Review: Monopoly – Game of Thrones Edition

Review: Monopoly – Game of Thrones Edition
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Are you a low-to-moderate Game of Thrones fan and an average fan of board games? Then you are gonna lose your shit over this new Monopoly Collector’s Edition. Any above-moderate Game of Thrones fans, on the other hand … perhaps not so much. … read more

Review: The Water Diviner

Review: The Water Diviner
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  The Water Diviner (Blu-ray) Director: Russell Crowe Warner Bros. Street: 07.28 Gone are the days where I could watch the news and hear about how Russell Crowe pummeled a random person or threw a phone at the face of a hotel concierge. What we have now is a much more subdued Crowe—so subdued, in

Review: The Swindle

Review: The Swindle
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The Swindle is a cool little heist game with a nifty steampunk aesthetic. It’s set in 1849 London, where Scotland Yard is on the verge of implementing an end-all-be-all surveillance system—the Devil’s Basilisk. … read more

Review: Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess

Review: Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess
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I’m completely new to the Deception video games series, and I wish I wasn’t. Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess is a smart, original and, above all else, fun game. Let’s go back though to where it all started with 1996’s Tecmo’s Deception. It debuted on the PlayStation 1 and, unlike later titles in the series, was a first-person game that made references to—GASP—Satanism! … read more

Review: No Time to Explain

Review: No Time to Explain
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Despite the game’s title, let me try to explain this to you. A puzzling, at times challenging platformer in which a giant, interdimensional, time-travelling monster has kidnapped your future self, and it’s up to present you (as well as multiple alternate-reality yous) to traverse through dimensions, armed with a propulsion gun, trying to save yourself and find out what the fuck is going on. … read more