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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 [...]

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 [...]

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? [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]