Author: Simes
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Arc System Clash
If you like anime-style video games, or just utter craziness, you probably know and love the work of Arc System Works. Maybe you’re a fan of the insane BlazBlue: Continuum Shift (Ready Up’s Dan certainly is), perhaps even going so far as to enter our recent BlazBlue competition. Maybe instead you’re a Guilty Gear fan,…
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Board Game Favourites
I think it’s a given that if you are here, on this web site, reading these words, you probably enjoy the occasional game. If not, then you have probably stumbled in here by mistake through some bizarre combination of pornographic search terms. In either case, many of you probably know that gaming is not necessarily…
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Scrap Metal
I often feel that games development, and perhaps other “creative industries”, would benefit greatly from having one guy in a team whose job it is to ask awkward questions beginning with the word “why”. Scrap Metal is certainly one of those games which would have come out of the process greatly improved. Here are some…
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Just Cause 2 Preview
I was quite a fan of the original Just Cause when it came out late in 2006. While not without its problems, there was enough fun to be had in grappling, parachuting and exploding your way around the island of San Esperito to keep me going right to the end and the full 1000 gamerscore…
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Razer Naga MMO Gaming Mouse
Razer is a well-known brand in the PC gaming arena, making a wide variety of gaming-oriented mice and other peripherals. The Naga is their mouse which is tailored to the specific needs of MMO players. So what is it that MMO players need that players of other games might not? Buttons. Lots of buttons. The…
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Defense Grid: The Awakening
Defense Grid: The Awakening is a tower defence game. I have mentioned these in passing before; it’s a genre I enjoy, combining as it does elements of puzzle-solving and of shooting things in the face until they are dead. Defense Grid (as I shall call it from here on) was originally a popular Steam release…
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Bite-Size Morsels of Joy
You know how it is. You want to get your game on. You’re desperate for a challenge, a foe to vanquish, a tricky puzzle to pit your wits against. But you’re trapped. Trapped at your desk. Or trapped in a meeting which you had to attend even though nobody quite knows why. You can’t play…
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Batman: Arkham Asylum
Batman is one of the most interesting comic book heroes around. He’s your regular everyday millionaire tycoon driven to forever bring criminals to justice after watching his parents murdered in front of him when he was a small child. Just like anyone, really. But he’s also been around for ages in a variety of different…
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The Secret of Monkey Island SE
Right. Hands up everyone who doesn’t know what The Secret of Monkey Island is. Bloody kids today, don’t know they’re born, when I was your age, etc. For the benefit of today’s ill-educated youth, The Secret of Monkey Island was one of the great adventure games from the heyday of LucasArts, in a time when…
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Mechwarrior!
So I hear on the Internets that there’s a new Mechwarrior game coming. I found out about this a few days ago. As you may know, I quite like my big robot games; my subsequent internal monologue went something like this: New Mechwarrior game! Awesome! Christ, I hope it doesn’t suck. Woo! New Mechwarrior game!…