Backlog Quest: Day 3 – Jurassic: The Hunted – Dinosaur go boom!

Dear Journal, Today I kicked a Spinosaurus’ ass. Jurassic: The Hunted is one of those games that I’ve probably seen a million times and have always wondered whether or not I should play it.  I knew it wouldn’t be all that good, there was no way, but (perhaps brought on by early memories of Turok) something in me needed to […]

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Backlog Quest: Day 1 – Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts 2011 – Awkward hunting is awkward

Dear Journal, Today I spent some time with my psychotic father hunting deranged animals all over the world. That is to say, what the hell did I just play? I had seen them in stores quite a bit, and there is no shortage of them, so I had wondered for quite some time just what these Cabela’s games had to […]

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Review: Modern Warfare 3

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is the latest installment of the Modern Warfare series produced by Infinity Ward and newcomer Sledgehammer Games. The series seems to have a relatively simple formula for success; provide a fairly entertaining single player game and attach it to a revolutionary multiplayer system that sucks grown men (and women) from their real-life duties for hours/days/months on end. This formula has produced mind boggling results in revenue, and it has done so once again with Modern Warfare 3. However, do we get our money’s worth in entertainment?

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Review: Singularity

Singularity is a FPS with a twist; that twist is time travel and manipulation.  The hero of the game is a Special Forces soldier sent to an abandoned soviet era research facility located on an isolated island.  What he finds is an anomaly caused by the research materials used there that sends him back in time.  Unknowingly he saves a […]

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Review: Naughty Bear

Naughty Bear puts you in the shoes, or paws rather, of a murderous, conniving, brutally violent but simply misunderstood over-sized teddy bear called Naughty.  Over the course of a couple of missions, Naughty will fight and frighten the other bears on Perfection island for his own survival, to lash out at a society that has rejected him and of course […]

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Underrated Game of the Month: Blur

Like lost toys, the half a pizza with pineapple and children on a field trip without a buddy, some video games simply get left behind.  Sometimes they were just released at the wrong time, eclipsed by a much bigger game or a surprise chart topper.  Sometimes they just had bad marketing, or too many misconceived ideas about the game spread […]

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In Depth: Video Games, Violence and Warning Labels

Sure as the sun will set, people will blame any media they can for the violence in our world.  Video games have taken their fare share, and continue to do so.  Recently a lawmaker has suggested adding warning labels to video games much in the way the government currently puts warnings on alcohol and tobacco.   This started as a […]

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