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All Bark, No Bite

I enjoyed the first Kane and Lynch – it captured the feeling of classic “heist” movies – and I wanted to like Dog Days just as much. Unfortunately, I didn’t. The game consists of a raw, job gone bad plot – containing a few scenes that would have made a Soprano squeamish [...]

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I think there might be a Frasier or a Niles inside of my mind that’s desperately trying to break out. I’m ever increasingly finding myself not as assumed by funny little Youtube-clips and Video Game inspired mashups as I used to be; but yet will lose 15 [...]

You can’t go wrong with transforming robots wielding huge weapons beating each other into scrap metal. This is a recipe for fun, and Transformers: War for Cybertron is certainly fun — but unfortunately that’s all it is. The game doesn’t do anything wrong — the combat feels rewarding, the levels are vast, and the campaign [...]

Introduction
At the end of each month I like to take some time and write about what was great about it. You can call this action what you want — stopping to smell the roses, appreciating the simple things in life, taking stock of the present time — regardless of what you want to call it, [...]

…we shall fight on in the toy box, we shall fight on the kitchen table, we shall fight in the toy room and in the living room, we shall fight in the couch cushions; we shall never surrender… -Winston Churchtoy

The sequel to Toy Soldier’s, World at War, was released a few weeks back. In addition [...]