Portal 2 Games Reviews

After the end credits roll on Portal 2, it's kind of hard to believe that this series had its humble beginnings as a student project called Narbacular Drop, which itself just laid down the basic mechanical framework for the kind of fourth-dimensional puzzle-solving...

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No, That Absurd Witcher 2 Patch Isn't Actually 9GB

I saw more than a few people complaining on this here Internets last night about a crazy 9GB patch for CD Projekt's The Witcher 2. When exactly does a "patch" stop being a "patch"? Turns out the whole thing is an error. CD Projekt's told me the patch is much...

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Mortal Kombat's First DLC: All Those Pre-Order Costumes and Fatalities

If you're anything like the men of Giant Bomb, collecting all those scattered pre-order bonus costumes for Mortal Kombat was, to you, a calling second to none. Jeff and Ryan, in particular, got into a particularly heated competition to try and earn my unusedScorpion...

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The fairy-tale island

Mont Saint-Michel is a beautiful rocky tidal island, the most visited place in France. The island is more than 1,000 years old. Its inhabitants are only 41. Every year, she’s visited by at least 3.5 million people. “Do you know the most visited place...

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Letting the sun trip into you

My latest trip to the sun washed cities of the Gold Coast and Brisbane in Queensland, Australia, taught me that people are at the heart of your every visit to every place.  They are, in many ways, the ones who breathe life into a place so you can taste...

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Mortal Kombat Games Reviews

Mortal Kombat, the reboot-friendly title of the ninth core game in a franchise that spans nearly two decades, manages to contain something for just about every sort of Mortal Kombat fan. If you're the type that just wants to see video game guys kill each other...

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Kids Make the Darndest Games: A Look at the Almost Unbearably Delightful 'Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure

Parents instinctively want to celebrate every little thing that pops out of their child, no matter how mundane it might be. That's understandable. It's your offspring, a tiny human representation of all your hopes and dreams for the future. When your kid screams...

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Outland Games Reviews

Now that last year's ill-conceived top-down zombie shooter Dead Nation is fading into memory, Finnish developer Housemarqueis back on the right track with Outland, an eye-popping 2D platformer that owes equal debts to Metroid and--of all things--Ikaruga. That...

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Brink is a class-based multiplayer first-person shooter from the developers ofEnemy Territory: Quake Wars, and a lot of that style of play is present and accounted for in the way the objectives are built and the classes function. The structure of the game...

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Square Enix Producing Another MMO for Some Reason

Despite the fact that the publisher hasn't exactly had the best track record with MMO development thus far-- Final Fantasy XI was tepidly received, but managed a decent audience following; Final Fantasy XIV...not so much--Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada seems awfully...

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Top 10 Activities Seldom Seen Outside Gym Class

Gym class can be both a beautiful and dreadful thing: beautiful in its celebration of health, competition and physical fitness, dreadful in its Darwinian grading system, embarrassing requirements (come on, even real gym locker rooms are outfitted with private...

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More sick, dead, in European E. coli outbreak

Two new deaths linked to a mysterious bacterial outbreak in Europe blamed on tainted vegetables were reported Tuesday, including the first outside Germany, as the number of reported cases continued to rise. The deaths brought to 16 the total number of fatalities...

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Phase: The wounds of change

Waves of change: Maria Bernadeth (left) and Davit (right) perform in the dance titled Padusi, choreographed by Jefri Andi Usman. Photo courtesy of Bodi CH Silence swept through a stage dotted with dead trees, until monotonous low-key sounds could be...

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LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game Reviews

Traveller's Tales' Lego action series may have been skirting the risk of oversaturation for a while now, but it's hard to fault the company's prodigious output when it keeps upping its own quality bar.Lego Pirates of the Caribbean is already the second Lego...

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