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Escape Plan Review: Leather, puzzles, shy guys, and fart sounds

February 22, 2012
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Escape Plan Review: Leather, puzzles, shy guys, and fart sounds

When it comes to the Vita, the majority of the games void upon launch are ports, sequels, or offshoots of recognizable franchises. Very few new games are in the mix, which is why Escape Plot has always stuck out during preview events. It’s also one of the few games custom built for the Vita...

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Snake Eater 3D Review: Snake’s Least Successful Mission

February 22, 2012
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Snake Eater 3D Review: Snake’s Least Successful Mission

Metal Gear’s tale weaves owing to eight canonical games and has many startling twists. Clones, sentient computers, and nanomachines occasionally take the plot in incomprehensible directions, making the series demoralizing to deal with for first-timers. The fact that Snake Eater’s tale stands well on its own was doubtless the major reason Kojima Productions resolute...

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Blot Review: A Jetpack Shy Of A Joyride

February 21, 2012
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Blot Review: A Jetpack Shy Of A Joyride

Regal Software's Blot is an odd merger of artistic expression and art theft. If you can look past the adorable ink blot central character who is always smiling and staring deep into your soul with his shifty eyes, the backdrops behind him are filled with stunning black and white illustrations of wars, ponies, regal...

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Recovering MS Excel Spreadsheet Post File Error

February 21, 2012
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Recovering MS Excel Spreadsheet Post File Error

What are you options when you're in need of repair? (Photo: kevin dooley) The regular users of MS Excel can only know the importance of the data they store in their workbooks and spreadsheets. They know that one terrible day can ruin their entire hard work and vital time which they spent in storing...

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Alan Wake’s American Nightmare Review

February 20, 2012
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Alan Wake’s American Nightmare Review

In the first installment of the Alan Wake series, developer Remedy Entertainment invited gamers to encounter a mystery with no end. After leaving Alan in a precarious spot at Cauldron Lake, gamers flocked to thought boards to grant clarity to this game’s tale. Was Alan an asylum escapee magic demons in his mind? Was...

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The Best And Worst Of Kart Racing

February 20, 2012
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The Best And Worst Of Kart Racing

The original ModNation Racers was a flawed but entertaining attempt to innovate in the kart racing genre. Its simple-to-use toolset for making and allotment make pleased has produced over a million user-made tracks, karts, and racers for players to download, putting the offerings of Mario Kart's countless iterations to shame. While Road Trip's touchscreen...

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Wipeout 2048 Review

February 20, 2012
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Wipeout 2048 Review

The Wipeout series and Sony consoles have a long description collectively, dating back to the PSone’s launch window in 1995. When Sony released its first portable 10 years later, the anti-gravity racer was meeting on store shelves right alongside it. Description repeats itself this year, as Wipeout 2048 greets new Vita owners on day...

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Little Deviants Review: Cool Technology Buried In A Dull Minigame Collection

February 19, 2012
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Little Deviants Review: Cool Technology Buried In A Dull Minigame Collection

The Vita has a lot of gizmos built into it, and judging from the back of Small Deviants’ package, developer Bigbig studios wanted to use them all. Informational boxes make known the implementation of the microphone, touchscreen, rear touch pad, motion sensor, and rear camera. These hardware facial appearance may offer gamers a way...

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Super Stardust Delta Review: The Frantic Formula Is Still A Blast

February 19, 2012
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Super Stardust Delta Review: The Frantic Formula Is Still A Blast

If there was a game that cried out for the Vita’s twin sticks, Super Stardust was it. Super Stardust Portable valiantly made due with the PSP’s single stick and face buttons, but with Super Stardust Delta, fans can get the wild action as it was meant to be experienced person. Right to series’ form,...

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Dear Esther Review: A Haunting Indie Story Worth Listening To

February 18, 2012
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Dear Esther Review: A Haunting Indie Story Worth Listening To

Back in 2008 an ambitious indie mod was released using Valve’s Source Engine to tell the somber tale of a man coping with loss while exploring an unknowable island. Thechineseroom’s Dear Esther has been remade with the help of Robert Briscoe, a former DICE worker and environmental artist for Mirror’s Edge. The update includes...

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