26 Mar

Casual Thursday: GlueFO 2.0

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by gSathe

Okay. It needs to be said.
And really quickly.
GlueFO 2.0 is awesome! It’s one of the coolest takes on Asteroids in a really long time. Other games, like Echoes, for example, or Geometry Wars, refined the original concept. Dodge was an excellent example of how the original game could be turned on its head – [...]

15 Oct

Review: Dead Space

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by Ravi Sinha
EA Redwood Shores and their premier blockbuster horror actioner Dead Space (the Xbox 360 version reviewed here) brought forth the main concept. What if we took a maddening romp through Neverland on alien infectious LSD, with the strategic dismemberment of limbs played out against the backdrop of big-budget environments and surreal sound? It [...]

29 Sep

Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood (Review)

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by Ravi Sinha
Sonic the Hedgehog was always touted by Sega fans as Mario’s one true competitor, before Sega discontinued hardware manufacture and brought the famed blue furball to all major consoles.
Nonetheless, leaving his recent bungling 3D forays aside, it was always a given that Sonic could match up on the action/platform level and past iterations [...]

18 Sep

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames [Review]

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by Kuriakose Saju
I’ve been seeing explosive trailers of this one for some time now. And when I say explosive, I mean that in the most literal sense of the word. In the sequel to the 2005 smash hit Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, we are reintroduced to our renegade heroes Mattias “the Animal” Nilson, Christopher “the [...]

9 Sep

Spore grows on you

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by Kuriakose Saju
Spore… one word that has gamers everywhere huddle together in hushed whispers. It’s been eight years since development on this title began and the end product is finally here. Courtesy Will Wright, the man behind The Sims, and the team at EA Maxis, we now have the ultimate simulation game. In fact, it [...]

2 Aug

Red vs. Blue – The Blood Gulch Chronicles – Season 1

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by Kashif Ali
I was thinking to myself, wouldn’t it just be the shit if I wrote this review as a tribute to Memento (all rise) and had all you oxygen wasters going ape shit trying to figure out what the hell I was going on about. But then I thought some more and it just [...]

24 Jul

The Brick Knight, anyone?

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by Kuriakose Saju
July 18, 2008, was a landmark day for me. After close to seven months of keeping a close watch on YouTube for new trailers and reading up on message boards on the most obscure fan sites for any information on the latest cinematic outing of Gotham’s caped crusader, The Dark Knight finally hit [...]

23 Jun

MGS4: Guns of the Patriots Review – So long Snake!

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by gSathe
Beware! Here there be spoilers!
It’s finally, painfully, over. I’ve played all the Metal Gear Solid games to some degree or the other, though I hadn’t played the original Metal Gear games. But I never managed to sit through any one of them completely.
I like sneaking games, and one of my favourite games to date [...]

9 May

One last look at GTA IV

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by gSathe
It’s been a long week for me now, exactly seven days since I got my hands on GTA IV. It’s been a very violent week, filled with strange characters and shocking events. Well. Okay. Just strange characters – if you’ve seen enough movies then the events aren’t really all that shocking. And while Niko [...]

8 Mar

Chains of Olympus: Not quite GoW

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by gSathe
Chains of Olympus takes us into badass hero Kratos’ past, and for the most part provides a satisfyingly gory experience, with a story which, while it lacks the length and depth of the games on the PSPs bigger siblings, is still pretty entertaining. When you consider that the action is taking place on [...]