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Cate West: The Vanishing Files Game Review

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If you like find the hidden object puzzles, keep reading. This mostly one-player puzzle/mystery game for the Wii is based on a series of mysteries. Your goal is to help a female detective (Cate West) find the clues by finding 1,000 clues in 57 backgrounds.
There are [...]

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CTF: Episode 2

tweetmeme_url=’http://xplayer.org/?p=96′; tweetmeme_style = ‘normal’;tweetmeme_source = ‘iupiter’; Which one of you monkey slappin”, knuckle bustin’ reviewers did the review for Half-Life 2: Episode Two? Implying that the Antlion level was the only “Alamo” (aka “defend the flag”) - what a load! Episode Two is just a compilation of “defend the flag” with a [...]

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Spoiler Alert: We Suck!

tweetmeme_url=’http://xplayer.org/?p=94′; tweetmeme_style = ‘normal’;tweetmeme_source = ‘iupiter’; In December issue, the review of Clive Barker’s Jericho starts with a “spoiler alert” Huh? I had wanted to play the game, but the review just ruined the ending. Thats like the people behind you at the movie saying, “Oh, I saw this movie; he doesn’t [...]

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25 To Life

tweetmeme_url=’http://xplayer.org/?p=80′; tweetmeme_style = ‘normal’;tweetmeme_source = ‘iupiter’; “I can really relate to 25 to Life, perhaps more so than with any other game,,,because my,..life matches up all that well with that of a murderous drug-dealing gangbanger…
To play 25 to Life is to subject yourself to…a delightful combination of…third-person shooter.,.and…a..homage to.,.ffas/jo-motherf*”ing-mofj. 25 to Life [...]

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Overblown Console

tweetmeme_url=’http://xplayer.org/?p=77′; tweetmeme_style = ‘normal’;tweetmeme_source = ‘iupiter’; I swear, all I see in PC stores today are overblown consoles - integrated sound, integrated video, only two slots, 1GB of RAM, flat monitors worse than CRTs, and an AMD chip to heat up your coffee - and the neighbor’s coffee, too. I have to [...]

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So Shiny It Hurts?

tweetmeme_url=’http://xplayer.org/?p=85′; tweetmeme_style = ‘normal’;tweetmeme_source = ‘iupiter’; What makes a game “polished”? I don’t understand! I look at games you proclaim to be “polished,” and I often find them to be bugged and broken. Take, for example, World of WarCraft. Since launch, Ravenholdt Manor has had a broken quest tine, and there seem [...]

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Less Is More?

tweetmeme_url=’http://xplayer.org/?p=74′; tweetmeme_style = ‘normal’;tweetmeme_source = ‘iupiter’; I don’t get it. How could so many cranially challenged people think axing game ratings is a good idea? Fiemoving information is good? Really? If you don t like the scores, look away. If you don’t have time to read the full reviews, look at the [...]

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Common Gripes

tweetmeme_url=’http://xplayer.org/?p=83′; tweetmeme_style = ‘normal’;tweetmeme_source = ‘iupiter’; I’m happy to see that I’m not the oniy one having difficulties with the state some games are in when they hit the stores. Sometimes, I do feel Iiie a beta tester indeed. I also really liked Tom Chick’s review Of Dark Messiah of Might and [...]

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The World Is A Vampire…

tweetmeme_url=’http://xplayer.org/?p=91′; tweetmeme_style = ‘normal’;tweetmeme_source = ‘iupiter’; …sent to drain. At least the corporate world is a vampire. And you can bet they stay up late trymg to figLire out how to drain every last penny available…. The latest two insidious profit schemes come from Microsoft and the producers of Hellgate: London. The [...]

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Biowhat?

tweetmeme_url=’http://xplayer.org/?p=88′; tweetmeme_style = ‘normal’;tweetmeme_source = ‘iupiter’; Every time I read an article about BioShack, it rings bells from the hazy distant past of the early days of 3D gaming. There was a scifi-based game where you started by breaking out of prison (don’t they ail?), but in this one your first fight [...]

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