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de Blob 2, Reviewed [PS3, 360]

Colourful! It’s the one word I would use to describe de Blob 2 above all others. Everything about the game revolves around being artistic with your palette and spreading the vibrancy to anything in your vicinity.

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Nukoda’s Game of the Year 2010

Game Of The Year. The title has weight. It is the first day of a new year and with the passing of 2010 it is time to anoint a single, solitary champion of the year in gaming. It takes a lot to stand out amongst what have been a banner year for good games. There are [...]

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Must Have Games for Your New Console

Welcome to the current generation of consoles. Now you can put away that PS2 you’ve been lovingly keeping alive all these years and start gaming for real. Nowadays, it’s rare not to have a couple of games in your stocking, especially if your loved ones are any kid of coordinated but that doesn’t mean they’re [...]

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Must Have Games for Your New iPod/iPad/iPhone

So you’ve opened that new present you’ve been waiting for all year – a brand new shiny (or perhaps, hand-me-down) iPod touch, iPhone or iPad. No doubt your loved ones scrimped and saved and pooled their money for this revolutionary and/or magical device. Now what to put on it? If you’ve got an iPad, Virgin [...]

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WWE Smackdown Vs RAW 2011, Reviewed [PS3]

In the long-running yearly tradition, the holiday season sees a new addition to the THQ WWE Smackdown Vs RAW series. After a vastly improving the series with the 2010 edition, can THQ take the same sort of leap in the game, or is it more a case this year of refinement and tweaking?

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Vanquish, Reviewed [PS3, 360]

In an industry where sequels top the chart week after week, new IP announcements place a lot of pressure on the developers to deliver a game capable of holding its own against already successful franchises. Following on from one of the best new IPs of the year so far, Bayonetta, Japanese developers Platinum Games are once again [...]

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Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Reviewed [PC]

There are very few recent horror games that actually go for all out scares. Around the time of Resident Evil 4 the action element took precedence over the horror resulting in hordes of undead that could easily be replaced with irate soldiers. Few developers understand how to provide even basic scares, whether it be Resident Evil 5′s gung-ho [...]

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Sonic Adventure, Reviewed [PSN/XBLA]

When asked to remember Sonic‘s greatest moments, very few of them will feature a 3D version of gamings most iconic hedgehog. In fact, the only 3D entry in the long running series any fan would even consider mentioning is Dreamcast best-seller Sonic Adventure. Seen as a technical marvel back in the late 90s, can the [...]

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Left 4 Dead The Sacrifice DLC, Reviewed [360, PC]

Left 4 Dead The Sacrifice DLC, Reviewed [360, PC]

After a month of comics, trailers and an attempt at a week of rolling updates two things were evident. First, the Left 4 Dead team shouldn’t try and mimic the Team Fortress tradition of teasing content each day mixed with humour as it simply doesn’t work with a game that is serious. Second is that the combo of the comic and the downloadable content does work, so well in fact that [...]

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Borderlands Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution DLC, Reviewed [360, PC, PS3]

  Ever since Borderlands was released every fan has wanted to do one thing: shut those damn claptraps up. It’s rather fitting then to find that you get to do just that with the final piece of DLC, Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution. Going full circle, the game picks up on the notable ending of the [...]

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