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Game company Valve announced today that its well-known first-person shooter game sequel Counter Strike: Global Offensive will be released in early 2012 on Steam for both mac and PC, Xbox Live Arcade, and PlayStation Network in North America. The sequel features new game modes, weapons, maps, and characters to the franchise. This will mark the [...]
A new game trailor revealed recently that there will be three new characters joining the roster of 2011 fighting game Mortal Kombat. The first two downloadable characters will be Skarlet, a red female character based on a glitch in Mortal Kombat II., and Kenshi, a blind swordsman first introduced in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance. Skarlet [...]
Activision’s pre-E3 disclosure, Call of Duty Elite, demonstrates how organized games with weapons will work. Gamers worldwide have been issued a real call to duty. In particular the theater feature and gameplay analysis prove unbeatable. Activision will launch an online social service for Call of Duty. Call of Duty Elite is a service that will [...]
It may be easy to take one look at Super Mario Galaxy 2, see the same gravity-altering traps and spherical worlds from its predecessor, and dismiss this as a by-the-numbers sequel to the superb original. But by assuming you know what to expect from Mario’s latest adventure, you would be doing yourself and this game [...]
The original Call of Duty set the bar awfully high for war-based shooters, and very rarely has one been able to surpass it. The series has maintained its momentum, pumping out new entries to the franchise and winning substantial acclaim as the top series for World War II action. However, whereas most franchises would be [...]
When was the last time you felt totally lost in a fantasy gameworld? When was the last time you played a game with such a well-crafted and enjoyable story that you knew you’d remember it for a long, long time? Dragon Age: Origins is that kind of game, so rich and involving that you are [...]
As one of the most critically acclaimed shooters of all time, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a prime example of a tough act to follow. Yet, amidst a raging storm of anticipation and expectation, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has done it. The new campaign is chock-full of intense action and dramatic [...]
Set in the same instantly recognizable Liberty City as GTAIV (minus one island), Chinatown Wars tells the story of a power struggle within the Triad gangs from the perspective of Huang Lee, whose crime-boss father has recently been murdered. Huang flies to Liberty from Hong Kong to avenge his father, and predictably becomes embroiled in [...]
If you’ve ever wondered why movie tie-in games have such a bad reputation, Terminator Salvation can provide an instructive example. Though this third-person shooter is technically sound, it seems to rely entirely on the presumption that you’ll be so jazzed to be playing as characters from the movie that you won’t notice how boring and [...]
Necrovision is not a game that you should judge based solely on its first few hours of play. The early action can be great fun, but some clunky technical issues and frustrating missions don’t show this supernatural first-person shooter at its best. However, about a third of the way through, it leaps a great barrier [...]
