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I play a lot of video games — and I’m making now apologies for that. I love these things. I appreciate them as pieces of art and story telling, I enjoy them for the mental challenge they provide, I love the co-ordination that takes place with multilayer games, and I certainly can’t write off the [...]

Tropico 3 is different. In a predominately first person shooter and third person adventure dominated console game world, the top down “Sim City” style game play was a refreshing break.
Between managing industries and balancing the happiness of your citizen’s various factions there are enough game play elements present to keep you thinking two steps [...]

I’ve recently praised Deadly Premonition as a sleeper hit for the Xbox 360. A trait of a truely great game is when you think about the characters and situations even once you’re done with it. Aside from an outragiously disapointing and “out of left field” final encounter, Deadly Premonition has given me a lot of [...]

For a Arcade game originally released in 1992, X-Men Arcade has done very well in standing up against the test of time. Released to Xbox Live Arcade nearly 20 years after it’s original incarnation, to appropriately review the game you really only need to ask one question: “Is the magic still there?” The answer is [...]

The first official game Trailer for Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has been released. Watching it for the first time my jaw dropped, my heart rate accelerated, and I’m pretty sure I started drooling a bit. I have been a huge fan of the Elder Scrolls series ever since Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind. In fact, I [...]