Malaria’s most prominent symptom is sudden-onset dizziness and blurred vision which disappears almost instantly when you take a malaria pill. Still, if it hits when you’re just about to cross a bridge, expect to smash through the guardrail and face a watery death. In Africa, guns rust in a matter of hours. As long as […]

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For those of you like myself who never had the chance to try out Typing of the Dead on a Dreamcast, you’ve missed out on one of the funniest games I’ve ever played. Granted, it’s no Psychonauts, but when you’re being rushed by zombies with decade-old graphics and you have to type “NEED MY PANTS” […]

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When they said you’d be fighting bugs in this game, I think I mistook their meaning.

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One of my first impressions when I started playing Crysis was that it was a heck of a lot like Far Cry, albeit better looking. Aside from standard FPS mechanics, both titles let you toggle lying prone, and both contain a meter next to the mini-map to indicate enemy awareness of you, not unlike the […]

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So it looks like there’s a new teaser site up for Bioshock 2.  I’m sure they’ll do something clever soon like add hidden links in the flash after everyone’s exhausted themselves on a fruitless pixel hunt. I wasn’t as big a fan of Bioshock as everyone else seemed to be, but it was entertaining. Anyway, […]

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This is the best thing I’ve seen on YouTube in a long time. Being a huge fan of Half-Life, seeing a really well-produced fanfilm made in that universe makes me giggle like a little girl. Look at the Combine Airship! From what I’ve heard, the Purchase brothers made this film on a $500 budget, which […]

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I’m just beginning the fourth chapter of Dead Space, and I’ve found myself pleasantly surprised about a number of things. I’ll admit that in many ways it feels like a direct copy of Doom, but Dead Space calls itself a survival horror game rather than a shooter. As such it borrows concepts from the earlier […]

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At this point of time, I think it’s safe to say that I’m done with Gears of War 2. I’ve fought through the campaign multiple times, finished all 50 levels of Horde mode and ground out every achievement that I can reasonably expect myself to get.  I have no desire to play the game’s multiplayer […]

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For years, I’ve been following the work being done by the talented folks over at Black Mesa: Source. What they’ve been working on is a full remake of the original Half-Life game, using the source engine. Most importantly, they’re re-creating all game assets. Voice tracks, music, character models, textures, multiplayer maps, artificial intelligence, everything. Plus, […]

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I’ve got to say, overall I’m a bit disappointed in Fallout 3. What I’d wanted was a game much closer to Fallout 1 and 2. That is to say, a role playing game with turn-based strategy elements. What I got instead was something much closer to Oblivion, which is of course not a bit surprising […]

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