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PAX East 2013 (convention review).
(Boston, MA March 22-24, 2013) For the uninitiated, this is what generally occurs at gaming conventions:- * Arrive two hours early to get…
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Games
Computer and board games.
March 2013
NewsGames
BioShock Infinite… BIOSHOCKING.
The BioShock Infinite game experience is nearly upon us, so what better way to celebrate than show the trailer for the shoot-em-up?
NewsFantasy
Legend of Zelda… riches beyond imagining.
Let’s just say that if you lived in the same world as Zelda, then this would be some serious currency… yes, it’s the…
NewsScifi
Metro: Last Light… the sounds of the underground.
There are dystopian games universes and then there are dystopian game universes. Let’s just say that Metro: Last Light is the last place…
NewsGames
Bioshock Infinite… wiki wiki wild wild FPS.
Bioshock Infinite jumps into the mildly steampunk(ish) gaming space recently occupied by Dishonored, gives the first person shooter genre a shake, and comes…
NewsGames
Gears of War Judgment… gearing up.
Gears of War is coming back in our face with an all-new excursion into alien hunting battle, as Kilo Squad get it on…
NewsGames
Amazon yanks SimCity after game gets over 1000 negative one star reviews.
Amazon has taken the downloadable version of SimCity off-sale on its store after the recently revamped game got over a thousand one star…
NewsDoctor Who
Doctor Who, the retro 16-bit computer game that never existed.
Doctor Octoroc, a Philadelphia-based artist and classic video game enthusiast, has just created an excellent advert for a fake Doctor Who 16-Bit game.…
NewsGames
Lost Planet 3… will be found this June!
If you’re a fame of Capcom’s Lost Planet series of games, you’ll be happy to hear that Lost Planet 3 will be coming…
ReviewGames
Android: Netrunner: The Card Game (card game review).
‘Android: Netrunner’ is a two-player ‘living card game’ (LCG) pitting a futuristic megacorporation against the wily hacker who wants to break into its…
February 2013
ReviewGames
Carcassonne, designed by Klaus-Jurgen Wrede, artist Doris Matthaus (board game review)
What you get: 72 tiles, 1 score table, 40 wood followers in 5 colours, 4 sheets of instructions. Did you ever have a…
ReviewGames
Spartacus: A Game Of Blood And Treachery by Sean Sweigart and Aaron Dill (board game review).
Taken from the box: ‘A fast paced board game set in ancient Rome. The game includes backstabbing schemes, fierce bidding and bloody gladiatorial…