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A Guide to Retro Gaming

Classic gaming titles enjoy new life thanks to Good Old Games downloads
Like most savvy sci-fi gaming fans, I spent the past weekend channeling my inner Mad Max with a new copy of Fallout, clearing its stunning post-apocalyptic wastelands of ravenous mutant and bloodthirsty raider alike. I’m not talking about the newly released third series installment [...]

Ones to Watch: PC Releases for November 2008

By Joe Haygood
Well, for those in PC land, I cannot give you the big bang out of the gates that the PS3 and 360 have in Resistance 2 and Gears 2.  If I try, all I can muster is Operation and CSI: NY.  Both are surely entertaining titles in their own right, but can’t hold [...]

Rock Band tunes into Nirvana DLC

By TomM_GScom

Full playable album downloads for Rock Band was one of the key talking points for MTV Games and Harmonix during the 2007 E3 Media & Business Summit. While the game makers were slow to deliver on that promise for the game’s initial iteration, Rock Band 2 has already seen a healthy amount of albums [...]

5 Reasons Far Cry 2 Is a Far Cry from the Average Shooter

If you think shooters are a dime a dozen, well…let’s just say you need to quit slumming it in the bottom-rung bargain bins. But you would be correct that many shooters blend in with each other. They get lost in a swirl of flashy graphics, unimaginative settings, and same-old-same-old gameplay. So when something truly different [...]

Hendrix getting his own Guitar Hero?

By TomM_GScom
Source: A Rolling Stone interview, as interpreted by various gaming blogs.
What we heard: Just getting a song in a rhythm game is so Guitar Hero 2. Now, to be a true rock god, musicians aspire to having an entire Guitar Hero game devoted to their expansive catalogs. Thus far, that pantheon is populated [...]