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Anyone familiar with FPS games has probably heard the term “Crytek” or “CryEngine” at some point. …then probably forgot about it. If you haven’t heard about it, CryEngine is a game engine that was made popular by the EA published and Crytek Frankfut developed “Crysis” series. This series was famed for it’s gorgeous graphics and [...]
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As most of you may have heard, Valve announced recently that they are going to invest 25 million dollars into their Left 4 Dead 2 ad campaign. …Is it just me, or is that insane? Left 4 Dead was a fun game, but in my opinion, it wasn’t that much fun.
My experiences with the [...]
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Ever wanted to have your Xbox 360 connected to the internet, but your router is just too far away? Did you not feel like paying for that twenty foot ethernet cord just to string it through your house, making it difficult and frustrating to simply connect to the internet? These are a few of the [...]
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Release Date: September 22, 2009
Platform(s): Xbox 360
Publisher(s): Microsoft Game Studios
Developer(s): Bungie
Genre(s): First-Person-Shooter
”Prepare to drop.” What an awesome slogan, eh? This game most certainly deserved it. It was, by far, my most enjoyed Halo single player experience. I honestly never thought I would like a Halo game more than I liked Halo 2, but here it [...]
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Looking for a cool place to bring all of your online games together? Need a site to update your other social networks such as Facebook or Twitter when you play games? Or do you just want a place with interesting forums, excellent developers, and plenty of ways to make friends?
Then Raptr.com is for you! [...]
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Title: Wolfenstein 2009
Release Date: Release Date: August 18, 2009 (Memphis, TN)
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3
Publisher(s):Activision
Developer(s): Raven Software
id Software
Pi Studios
Endrant Studios
Genre(s): First-Person-Shooter
It is a sad thing when the first thing I have to say in my first sentence about a game that I was waiting for for so long is that I am disappointed. [...]
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Man, I have to say, this is ticking me off. I’ve tried it fifty different ways, and I can’t get the leaked Wolfenstein beta to run on my Windows Vista PC. I’ve updated my drivers, I’ve rebooted several times, re downloaded and re extracted. It’s extremely frustrating ’cause I would love to be able to [...]
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Well, I played a version of the leaked Wolfenstein beta tonight. As I expected, it ran smoothly, and the gameplay was fun. I didn’t play very much because playing by yourself on a server is quite boring. I did get some valuable information out of it though.
Gameplay is VERY similar to that of the Call [...]
Posted by Darthveggie
All right! So this will be my first post in a good while. My apologies, I’ve just been quite busy. Finishing school, re-painting, re-modeling, and re-decorating the house. ….I’ve also had too much fun playing with the things I want to review rather than review them.
This time, however, I’ll be reviewing something a little [...]
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Title: Call of Duty: World at War
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Platform(s): Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, PC, Xbox 360
Publisher(s): Activision
Developer(s): Treyarch, Certain Affinity
Genre: First Person Shooter
Call of Duty: World at war is the latest installment of the well known first person shooter video game series. It runs on the same engine as [...]