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June 28, 2011August 13, 2025Arts and Entertainment

Red Faction delivers more action from the Red Planet

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Red Faction: Armageddon By THQ and Volition Games Genre: Third-person shooter Rating: Mature for Blood and Gore, Strong Language, Violence The Red Faction series has long been a staple of the shooter genre, featuring revolutionary (at the time) destructible terrain ever since its first release as a first-person shooter back in 2001. Its second outing...

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June 27, 2011August 13, 2025Arts and Entertainment

Puzzle games offer a refreshing break from violence

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One of my great loves, as you may well know from my other articles, is the puzzle genre of games. These are for when you just need to kick back and enjoy solving problems at your own pace. Sure, there’s something to be said for fast-paced action and drama, but you can’t beat a refined,...

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June 26, 2011August 13, 2025Arts and Entertainment

Japanese animation opens up a whole new world of storytelling

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Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese animator and a founder of the studio, Studio Ghibli, known for making films that appeal to young and old. Through the friendship and work of fellow director John Lasseter, known for his work at Pixar, Miyazaki’s films have received star-studded dubs (translations) and imports into the United States, for enjoyment...

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June 23, 2011August 13, 2025Arts and Entertainment

Journey to forgotten and wondrous lands looking for a lost heir

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Syberia By Microids Genre: Old-school graphical adventure! Rating: Teen for Mild Language, Use of Alcohol (second only has Mild Language) A rather odd story, but still an endearing one, as well as beautiful pre-rendered art and suitably epic music surrounds this grand adventure written by Belgian comic author Benoit Sokal, the first installment of which...

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June 15, 2011August 13, 2025Arts and Entertainment

A truly disturbing game receives a sequel after almost 11 years

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Alice: Madness Returns By EA and Spicy Horse Genre: Third-person action/adventure Rating: Mature for Blood and Gore, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Violence Back in 2000, a video game designer named American McGee released his take on a possible sequel to the classic Victorian-era books by Lewis Carroll, known as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Through...

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June 13, 2011August 13, 2025Arts and Entertainment

The History of Duke Nukem, from the perspective of a gamer

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When I first heard of Duke Nukem (not the Captain Planet character, of course), I was quite young; 12 to be exact. Duke was a pretty arrogant bad-boy hero type even back then, for how simple his first game, made back in 1991, was; bare-bones sci-fi story, simple blow-up-aliens-and-get-to-the-end gameplay, old-school EGA (16 colors at...

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June 12, 2011August 13, 2025Arts and Entertainment

Hangover: Part II falls short

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Tim Ajmani The Corsair I have personally seen the “Hangover” a billion times, and that’s not an exaggeration. So you can guess how excited I was when I heard that there was going to be a “Hangover: Part II”. I have been excited about many movie sequels before, such as “The Two Towers” and “Pirates...

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June 11, 2011August 13, 2025Arts and Entertainment

Downloadable content adds new life to the wasteland

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Fallout: New Vegas DLC! War. War never changes. And neither does my love for this series. Brought back to life after ten years by Bethesda Softworks in 2008, and continued by Obsidian in 2010, the Post Atomic Role Playing Game never ceases to present a bleak yet continually enthralling vision of an alternate, irradiated, paranoid...