Remember that time when video game players saved the world? No? Well… just wait. It can’t be too far off from now. In the mean time you’ll have to settle for a group of gamers accomplishing in three weeks what scientiests have been attempting to do for almost a decade now — mapping the enzyme [...]
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Modeling Toy Soldiers: Cold War’s Avatar Awards
September 20, 2011
…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 [...]
Naughty Bear (1000 Character Review)
September 13, 2011
It’s Na-Na-Na-Naughty Time!
Naughty Bear is different; both in concept and gameplay.
With the protagonist cast as an unloved teddy bear, the objective isn’t merely to attack and kill the other, more adorable, teddy bears (who treat you very poorly), but to torment them. If you were to swap the amount of cotton stuffing shed for [...]
World of Keflings (1000 Character Review)
July 11, 2011
No Conflicts. Just Labors Of Love.
I don’t think games come more laid back than World of Keflings. Controlling your personalized Xbox Live Avatar you get to aid the simple minded — yet thoroughly humours — Kefling population with building their Kingdom across three distinct localities.
With the game play focus placed on resource and labor [...]
Spiderman: Shattered Dimensions (1000 Character Review)
July 5, 2011
With a hero as physically nimble as Spiderman is supposed to be, the first challenge Shattered Dimensions needed to tackle was the fluidity of character control. Thankfully game excels in the area.
There is hardly a moment in the game — save for a few instances where the camera zooms uncontrollably — where I felt [...]








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