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Sam Fisher is back. And he is really, really mad. To anyone that had played the older Splinter Cell games, this would be reason enough to celebrate. Except for one…
Review: Battlefield Bad Company 2
Pay attention, if you will, to the following lines of dialogue from the single player campaign of Battlefield Bad Company 2 (BC2 from here on): Sweetwater (Yes that’s his name):…
Assassin’s Greed : Ubisoft’s latest DRM fiasco
Disclaimer: The following is a rant above all else. There is a point I’m trying to make but this post is primarily a means to vent the frustration experienced by…
Review: Mass Effect 2
If you really think about it, the whole sci-fi and fantasy thing is silly. I mean, we know there are no elves. We know there are no death stars or…
Subcontinental woes: What is holding the Indian gaming scene back?
The following isn’t really a blog post. It’s an excerpt from an email conversation I had with some like-minded folk about the state and direction of gaming in the Indian…
Save us please! (Ridiculous save game systems in PC titles)
The musclebound psycho has no idea that I’m right above him. From the shadows, I watch with a smug expression as two of his gun toting buddies walk right towards the motion sensitive trap I set…
Mistaken identity: Why Dawn of War 2 is not an RTS title
Real time strategy games (RTS’s) have come along way. There was something inherently addictive about old school RTS titles like Age of Empires and the ridiculously popular Starcraft. The mecahnics…
Review: Left 4 Dead 2
It is a little known fact that 95.2% of all males above the age of 13 absolutely WANT a zombie apocalypse *. Why? Well, to our testosterone-flooded, Romero-fueled, eternally adolescent…
Review: Dragon Age Origins
I finished Dragon Age Origins last night. I should say that I finished playing Dragon Age Origins last night but I won’t. Why? Well, in the 75 hours that I…
Dragon Age Origins: First impressions
Finally got Dragon Age up and running on my system at home. Can’t play this thing at The Bunker as I keep getting interrupted. Here’s what I think so far…