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 released way back in 2002!...
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Recap of the 2010-2011 NBA season
Tim Ajmani The Corsair I was one of those people before the NBA season began that said a “Big 3” in Miami was bad for the league as a whole. Well, almost one year later, and I have to say that I was dead wrong about that. The NBA probably just had its most successful season in years. Despite being...
A truly disturbing game receives a sequel after almost 11 years
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 the Looking Glass and What...
After 12 years of hype and development, the legendary shooter returns
Duke Nukem Forever By Gearbox Software and 2K Games Genre: First-person shooter Players: 1, or up to 8 in multiplayer Rating: Mature for Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Mature Humor, Nudity, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Use of Drugs and Alcohol The King is back; does he still reign? Spouting one-liners, kicking alien rear and wooing all the hot babes...
The History of Duke Nukem, from the perspective of a gamer
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 a time, and we liked...
Hangover: Part II falls short
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 of the Caribbean: The Dead...
Downloadable content adds new life to the wasteland
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 future. Not many people like...
L. A. Noire goes back to the 40s with gritty, seedy crime investigations
L. A. Noire By Rockstar Games and Team Bondi Genre: Third-person action/adventure Rating: Mature for Blood and Gore, Nudity, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Use of Drugs, Violence Ah, the hard-boiled detective world of the 1940s. The subject of many a detective novel by Dashiel Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Elmore Leonard and others, this genre has a name that instantly evokes dark...
Too much technology?
Tim Ajmani The Corsair When is too much of a good thing a bad thing? Sometimes too much easy is dangerous and detrimental to us. For example, look at technological advances made in the automobile industry. Ten years ago, having cars “park” themselves was unthinkable. But now, Ford has enabled the feature in their compact Focus vehicle. In the case...
Drug bust largest in school history
Lauren Mabrie The Corsair Pensacola State Police scored the biggest drug bust in college history April 20, according to Chief Hank Shirah, netting $4,548 in U.S. currency and 500 grams of hydroponic marijuana with a street value of $10,000. Andre Earl Johns, 22, was arrested and charged with possession of a weapon on school property; trespassing on school grounds; marijuana...