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My Five Best and Worst Things at E3 2013

Andrew Allen — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 03:19:48 +0000

Well, E3 is over, and now the time comes to sit back and assess all that has transpired. Coming at you now are my five favorite/least favorite things from E3 2013. Of course please remember that I’m just one guy, I can’t see everything on the floor, and these are just based on what I [...]

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E3 2013: Ryse Is Not Impressive, Thief Is Meh

Andrew Allen — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:34:46 +0000

Hello Dear Reader, There’s so much to talk about, I apologize that I haven’t written sooner. Over the past two days, I was shown private demos of two games (among others) for which I had very high hopes: “Ryse” and “Thief.” My feelings coming out of both were somewhere between ambivalence and full-on dread. Let [...]

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Holy Crap Halo 4 Is Getting Great Reviews

Andrew Allen — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:32:45 +0000

I know I said I wasn’t buying “Halo 4.” Well congratulations, Dear Reader, you get to shove it in my face once again because I’m totally buying it. At first I held strong; sure that IGN review was very positive, but it’s IGN, the home of Chobot-otron and other manufactured entities. And anyway, IGN is the [...]

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Shut Up And Buy XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Andrew Allen — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:52:32 +0000

It’s been a good year for the thinking man’s action game: first “Ghost Recon: Future Soldier” defies my pessimistic initial assessments and becomes the benchmark for tactical action/stealth. And now Firaxis comes roaring through the gate with “XCOM: Enemy Unknown,” a strategy/action title so outstanding it’ll leave you in tears. It isn’t just good, it’s transcendent. Staggering depth, [...]

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Dishonored Kinda Disappoints

Andrew Allen — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:30:08 +0000

“Dishonored” is in no way a bad game, but that isn’t quite the same as being a game I like. I admire Bethesda for trying out a brand new IP, and I admire them even more for seeing that IP through with such polish, but what comes out the other end has a few problems [...]

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Painkiller Hell and Damnation Coming October 31st

Andrew Allen — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 10:16:49 +0000

There’s always a place in my heart for “Painkiller,” “Serious Sam’s” slightly evolved older brother in the shooting gallery FPS world. So it’s with great pleasure that I just got word a remake of the original 2004 game titled “Painkiller: Hell and Damnation” is making its way to PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 on October [...]

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Glitches in Borderlands 2

Andrew Allen — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:39:41 +0000

Don’t get me wrong, I like “Borderlands 2” a great deal, but the thing glitches like it’s its job. Lately it seems like QT standards are dropping across the board for AAA titles, maybe because post-release patching has made developers and publishers lazy. And the bigger the game, the more acceptable the developer seems to [...]

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Borderlands 2 Is Great

Andrew Allen — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:03:33 +0000

As an avid but late-arriving fan of the original, I’ve been anticipating “Borderlands 2” quite a bit, and now that I’ve put in a solid week with the title I can safely say it’s an honorable continuation of what made the first great. It’s a pretty safe sequel all told, never straying far from the [...]

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The Five Best Stealth Games Ever

Andrew Allen — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:11:22 +0000

Stealth is one of the hardest genres for a developer to pull off, perhaps because it’s defined at its core by the conflicting attributes of player autonomy and tightly scripted level design. The challenges need to feel harder than they actually are, and the solutions–though carefully crafted–must seem to burst forth from the player’s natural [...]

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Prediction: Valve’s Steam Box is Real

Andrew Allen — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:49:29 +0000

When I said a few months ago that I thought it made sense for Valve to design some kind of hardware console, a concept colloquially dubbed the “Steam Box,” many scoffed. Now it’s been revealed that Valve is hiring an “industrial designer,” with a post going up on their jobs site that seems to double [...]

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