Backlog Quest II: Day 20 – Medal of Honor: Warfighter – Don’t tread on me

Dear Journal, Today I saved the world from some smelly terrorist. In discussing the previous Medal of Honor I made the comparison more than once that Call of Duty was like any of Michael Bay’s many explosion filled films where as MOH was more along the lines of Saving Private Ryan or The Hurt Locker. Yes, there is action and […]

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Backlog Quest II: Day 8 – Syndicate – Literal corporate warfare

Dear Journal, Today I engaged in some literal corporate warfare. Syndicate takes place in the year 2069, when a mega corporation named Eurocorp has developed a chip implant that has allowed people to directly interface with technology and has largely replaced many of the world’s electronics. As a result, Eurocorp, and several other mega corporations (or syndicates) control the world […]

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Backlog Quest: Day 10 – Shadows of the Damned – Fear the Boner

Dear Journal, Today I was a Mexican, not a Mexicant. There are two types of gamers in the world: those who have played Shadows of the Damned, and the vastly superior in numbers group who have never even heard of it.  Grasshopper’s game/interactive B-movie didn’t exactly make a big splash when it came out, and it is a damn shame […]

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Backlog Quest: Day 7 – Bodycount – Let the expectations hit the floor

Dear Journal, Today I… well really I just played a very mediocre shooter. That’s what I did. Once when I was on a message board, probably CAG, someone said (in reference to Bodycount) that “Codemasters doesn’t make bad games!”  They of course were being sarcastic, because the truth is that Codemasters hasn’t had a lot of successes lately.  Bodycount offered […]

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Review: Battlefield 3 (Single Player)

You know it’s November when the Battlefields and Call of Duty’s are migrating to store shelves around the world.  For the past couple of years EA has been making some rather serious attempts to steal some of Call of Duty’s thunder, mostly by trying to emulate Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare’s success.  There have been some interesting attempts along […]

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Reviews from the Clearance Bin: NBA Jam (Xbox 360, PS3)

Like many others my age, I wasted plenty of time and quarters on the classic NBA Jam back in the days of Super Nintendo and local arcades.  As a result, I was excited to hear that EA Sports intended to bring the game to the modern console era.  The classic gameplay was, simply put, a total blast and I figured […]

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iTuesday: Dragon’s Lair II: Time Warp for iPhone Review

Eric continues his “vacation” from the site for one more week leaving his iTuesday segment in my hands this time around.  Full disclosure; I’m not an iPhone gamer typically, hell I don’t even own one and had to borrow a phone for the sake of this review.  This should be interesting. I have to admit that I was previously unfamiliar […]

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In-Depth: Is DLC Ruining Gaming?

Frequent readers of the site know that we typically save Wednesdays for reviews, but this week is special.  For a couple of weeks I had been toying around with the idea of writing an article about console exclusive DLC for multi-platform games; then the Battlefield 3 pre-order DLC news broke.  Sometimes the timing even coincides with a thought and this […]

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Review: Dead Space 2

Having spawned a total of four games over three consoles, two full length animated films, a full length novel, graphic novels, and a rumored feature length film in production, the Dead Space franchise has done well for itself.  In terms of the games, Dead Space and Dead Space Extraction have received largely positive press.  Additionally, Dead Space 2 performed better […]

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