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November 2011′s Game Releases

It’s that crazy time of the year again where your wallet gets emptier faster than a fist fight would end between Batman and The Penguin. See that right there, the [...]

Life, The Universe, And Gaming — What’s In A Nickname? [Column]

In my previous column, a harrowing tale that delved into various topics of interest that I don’t even remember ever really talking about until I clicked that link above and [...]

Review: Battlefield 3

So, the war finally begins as many people wait in anticipation to see who will emerge as top dog between Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3 later next month. EA’s [...]

Review: Ace Combat: Assault Horizon

Ah, my youth, sweet and innocent youth. The last Ace Combat game I played was on the PS1 and well… well even in my ignorant youth, where pretty much every [...]

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A Gamer’s Perspective – Gaming It Like Gandhi [Column]

I’m afraid that those of you who were eagerly looking forward to the second instalment in my Gaming Efficiently mini-series will be sorely disappointed to hear that it has been [...]

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Should You Buy Deus Ex: The Missing Link?

Deus Ex: Human Revolution came as somewhat as a surprise this year. With its open-ended gameplay, engaging and engrossing conspiracy filled narrative, gorgeous visual design and outstanding soundtrack, Deus Ex [...]

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Indie Review: E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy

Divine Cybermancy, the name is actually a play on words and refers to Dante’s Divine Comedy (Just Wiki it, I know you heathens don’t know what it is). The storyline [...]

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Experience Points: The Death And Birth Of Consoles [Column]

After reviewing X-Men Destiny, the most absurdly crafted piece of rubbish to ever hit game store shelves (I’m exaggerating of course, nonetheless it’s still a pathetic game) I decided to [...]

Review: Batman: Arkham City

Batman: Arkham City feels like a game that I’ve had to wait forever for, but by that same token it’s the game I’ve always dreamed of having, being the obsessive [...]

Review: RAGE

id Software are no strangers to the FPS genre. In fact, they were pioneers in the shooting industry, producing instant classics such as Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Quake. These games [...]

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In A Nerd’s Honest Opinion: To Be Difficult Or Not [Column]

Urgh! Ugh! I can’t believe it. Damn you fail varsity computers! Jeez Tim, what’s the matter you might ask? The matter is that the LAN I’m working in decides to [...]

Review: X-Men Destiny

Marvel’s latest forays into film adaptations have yielded success with Thor, Captain America and X-Men First Class dominating the box office. However, in the arena of videogames this is predominately [...]

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Top 5 Most Awesome (FPS) Weapons

This feature has been a long time coming. In my honest opinion, you aren’t complete, as a gaming website, without a countdown of awesome weaponry. They define our gaming experiences [...]

Life, The Universe, And Gaming — Wait, What?! [Column]

Oranges! Okay now that we’ve got this column under way — I never quite know how to properly start these things off — I’d like to talk about something that [...]

Review: Dark Souls

I pose these questions to you. Would you like to die a whole lot and potentially develop a hernia through pure frustration? Do you mind terrible narration and a rather [...]

Gamers Vs Online Passes — Choose Your Side

A few months ago I posed the question of whether the gaming resale market could be considered piracy, in one of my famous Life, The Universe, And Gaming columns. Shameless [...]

A Gamer’s Perspective – Gaming Efficiently: The Art Of Balance (Part 1)

Like many others in life who share my insatiable love for games, I suffer from what some may call a “time management problem”. People of the less kind (and significantly [...]

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My Top 5 Game Endings

I think it’s appropriate to mention, before I get all excited and start ranting about my top five favourite game endings of all time, that there are most likely massive [...]

Camera Capps [Column]

So as a columnist I suppose I should be writing about the death of Steve Jobs, the problems with the BlackBerry network or something else of general news and mobile [...]

Review: Spider-Man: Edge Of Time

Spider-Man games have always been a bit of a “touch and go” subject in the gaming world, with their quality standards often varying in radical degrees. From the awful first [...]

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Review: PES 2012 – Pro Evolution Soccer

In all honesty, PES 2012 should have delivered more based on what it promised and isn’t so much a leap forward as it is a moderate upgrade of PES 2011. [...]

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rAge 2011: Uber Mega Edition & Final Impressions

It’s been an entire week since the gaming extravaganza that was rAge 2011 and some are still recovering from the exertions of last weekend. We have endeavoured to bring you [...]

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What Happened To Hitman: Absolution?

The Hitman franchise has always been both an interesting and awesome one, but perhaps the most questionable aspect of it – for me anyway – has always been its hiatus. [...]

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Experience Points: What Makes A Gamer A ‘Gamer’? [Column]

So it’s my turn this week to diligently write my column for all the eager readers. Following rAge, I’ve started the lengthy process of transcribing all my interviews and now [...]

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Why Game Critics Should In Theory Be Trusted (But Aren’t) – Part 2 [Column]

It’s taken a really really really extremely-catastrophically-and-unbelievably excruciatingly crazy long time, but I’m finally back again with Part 2 of my obnoxious attack evaluation on game critics and gamers and [...]

In A Nerd’s Honest Opinion: Pointless With Potential [Column]

rAge articles, reviews, feature pieces, the indie section, varsity presentations, varsity essays and research projects; even though I enjoy it immensely, it’s still a hell of a lot of work [...]

Review: F1 2011

Blazing hot temperatures, burning rubber, break neck speeds and gorgeous super models. If you encounter all of these factors every two weeks or so, then you’re probably not sitting on [...]

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Indie Review: Space Pirates and Zombies

Disclaimer: I tend to dislike RTS games. Especially, ones that involve spaceships. Sins of a Solar Empire and Home World are not my friends. You have been warned. However, I [...]

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Review: FIFA 12

EA Sports has taken a significant few steps towards revolutionising the FIFA franchise with this latest entry, and there’s plenty of new and exciting content to make things feel as [...]

Preview: Batman: Arkham City

Just over two years ago, something phenomenal happened in the gaming industry. A game was released, that carried one of the most recognised comic book licenses, and it did not [...]

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