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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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Microsoft: There will be a Halo Movie

There will be a movie, Microsoft’s Frank O’Connor said at a Halo panel at the Future of Television East conference last week. “We want to have Halo on any screen we have access to,” said O’Connor. After the panel, a high level network executive came up up to O’Connor and said, “We want to do something [...]

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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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Alan Wake The Writer DLC, Reviewed [Xbox 360]

  An imagination gone wild can be a dangerous thing, something which Alan Wake finds out in the final piece of DLC, The Writer. In a similar vein to the preceding DLC, The Signal, you find yourself trapped in the dark place struggling to hold onto your sanity amidst a landscape of warped versions of past [...]

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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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Dreamworks Wants to Make ‘Halo’ Movie. Success?

Sources have told New York Magazine’s online Vulture column that the success of Halo: Reach has sparked DreamWorks’ interest in making a Halo movie. Microsoft’s involvement is obviously the key factor in this case, with Bungie now out of the IP-holding picture. Which means Steven Spielberg’s potential involvement. After seeing the latest Indiana Jones movie, you [...]

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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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