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by gSathe first published in The Hindustan Times, 7th August 2010. You can read the edited article here.

This review of Red Dead Redemption was written for The Hindustan Times and was first published on 26th June, 2010. The original unedited version is reproduced below, and you can also read the printed version here: Review: Red Dead Redemption (XBOX 360 version) Gopal Sathe John Marston is a man on a mission. He was [...]

Microsoft is holding its launch event for Alan Wake tomorrow at the Oxford Bookstore in Delhi, which seems fitting, because while Alan Wake might not have covered wars, but he’s been published, and apparently writing of some sort is required for fighting zombies, and shadowy undead things. Before the game hits the shelves and you [...]

If you’ve been keeping track of the rapidly developing news, you’ll know that Activision has systematically forced their way into Infinity Ward offices, dismissed two of it’s bosses (Jason West and Vince Zampella) and locked down the offices altogether. Oh, and they apparently haven’t paid IW any money from the nearly $1 Billion USD in [...]

By Ravi Sinha This year has already been hugely beneficial for both Sony and Microsoft, though it currently tilts more towards the Playstation 3. Nonetheless, by the second week of May, each console will have three AAA exclusives to each call it’s own. Which is all well and good, but what next after that?

By gSathe Assassin’s Creed 2 offered a far superior experience than the original game, and Ubisoft Montreal improved the fundamental aspects in lots of subtle ways. However, one of the biggest changes, and in my opinion, one of the biggest improvements, was in the change of protagonist and setting.

Tri-Ace and Square-Enix have always been tight, with the latter publishing many of the former’s RPGs like Star Ocean like Radiate Stories and the Star Ocean and Valkyrie Profile games. Apparently, when Tri-Ace director Takayushi Suguro was clarifying their relationship with SE, he let slip of a possibly new Star Ocean game.

By Ravi Sinha Sony Computer Entertainment recently revealed that God of War 3 will occupy 35 GB of Blu-ray bliss. They then stated that it features no CG cut-scenes so obviously that’s not the question here. No, it’s every bit as possible that the cut-scenes are pre-rendered.

By Ravi Sinha Having completed Mass Effect 2 for the PC, passing the suicide mission with only one casualty (that too of some one who mistakenly threw away their loyalty for me), I sat through the game’s admittedly short ending and let it all sink in. Every thing I had worked for – the upgrades, [...]

By Ravi Sinha With great power comes great responsibility, goes the old Spiderman axiom. But Peter Parker was permitted his douche-bag excesses every and now then, sans movie lore. So while Ubisoft Montreal, developer of Assassin’s Creed 2 with Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands and Splinter Cell Conviction to follow, delivers something a little [...]