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Impressions: Fallout: New Vegas

In my PC heyday, I powered through the original Fallout incarnations. I was younger and found them slightly cumbersome, but I reveled in the life of a vault-dweller. Then Fallout 3 surfaced and turned my world upside down. As finicky as its enormous, detail-rich world could be, Bethesda Game Studios’ near-masterpiece was a vast improvement upon the classic installments in many ways, making it so much more than just, as many put it, Oblivion with guns. And I eagerly sat down to play it the following Christmas right after its release, basking in its newness and uniqueness.

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Preview: Battlefield Academy

Battlefield Academy has quite the peculiar background. Its first iteration was a flash-based tie-in created specifically for the BBC TV series Battlefield Britain. The free-to-play adventure attracted a healthy drove of gamers because of its slick interface and surprising substance hidden behind the surface. It came as no surprise then that Slitherine, a small developer who specialises in niche strategy games, would swoop in to shape this fledgling browser game into something with more oomph.
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Review: Whisper of a Rose: Gold

RosePortal Games has quite the hit on its hands with the stunning Whisper of a Rose: Gold. As a devout follower of the ways of the staunchly traditional role-playing game of old (yes, including Japanese RPGs) I found it to be a magical departure from the modern mechanics of beauty before substance and million-hit-points before character development world we’ve somehow found ourselves in with newer titles, and one that managed to transport me back to the innocent days of after-school grinding rather than yawning over news of the next “big” game. And for that, I pronounce it a smashing success. It’s not perfect, but it’s compelling, familiar, and depressing all at once. It’s been a while since a game has evoked such emotion from me, and so I must praise it.

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Preview: Battlefield Heroes

With all of the fervently-paced, action-packed FPSs available for various types of gamers, when a brand new one is released it really needs to stand out above the rest. Something needs to give it that extra oomph so that it will move units, draw more players in, and rise above the rest of what’s out there.
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Review: Tank Universal

It’s been a pretty long time since a game has sucked me in for hours, to the point that I forget that I might need to be cooking food to eat, or getting the laundry out of the washer…or even the fact that I should be doing something more productive. Tank Universal, a fantastic retro throwback very much reminiscent of Tron, is that very game. Since I got the opportunity to check it out, I’ve logged quite the amount of hours basking in the glow of my little laptop that could.
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