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No Man’s Sky, A Universe of Lies and Broken Promises

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No Man’s Sky has been met with both praise and disappointment. As expected of a game caught in a marketing hype, fans expected No Man’s Sky to be the pinnacle space exploration experience, creating an image Hello Games could never fully deliver on. “I don’t...

Minecraft hits Oculus Rift and Windows 10

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Minecraft developer Mojang has released a version of the popular building and adventure game that is designed for the Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset which was released in this year and Windows 10. The release is a free addition to current Minecraft Windows 10 beta editions. Game...

Starbound, A Satisfying Endless Space Sandbox

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Starbound is a survival/exploration experience that was in some form of early access for years, but now has finally launched into orbit with an official release. Players begin in deep space, surrounded by unfamiliar planets and with a malfunctioning ship at their disposal. From there,...

The Solus Project

The Solus Project Review

The Solus Project Review – There’s something rather clever about the way in which a survival game can twist expectation. Take The Solus Project, a game that wastes no time in dumping you on a hostile alien planet with little more to interact with than...

Shardlight

Shardlight

In the ruins of a world ravaged by nuclear war, people afflicted with a deadly disease called Green Lung take on menial, often dangerous jobs to earn a lottery ticket that may win them a dose of life-saving vaccine. Protagonist Amy Wellard has the disease,...

Disgaea PC

Disgaea PC

Set in the Netherworld where all things demonic and treacherous are celebrated, Disgaea is a game where you control Prince Laharl and a ragtag collection of misfits, hired help and explosive penguins. Waking from a two-year nap Laharl discovers his father is dead and other...

LEGO Minifigures Online

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The usual LEGO game remit of destruction, reconstruction and pugilism fits the MMO template very well, it turns out – when you’ve got a property with as much variation as the LEGO franchise, you’ve got all the makings of a great MMO already programmed into...

Grand Ages: Medieval

Grand Ages Medieval

Finally, we all have the chance to play a game where our timber trader gets robbed and murdered, we don’t have the resources to research three-field crop rotation and then a volcano erupts next to our most prosperous town. Games! Grand Ages: Medieval is a...

The International 2015 ends, and a new champion emerges

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The fifth Dota 2 International was the longest and most lucrative since Valve introduced the game to the world in 2011. After a week of group stages, 16 of the best teams in the world met in Seattle’s KeyArena to compete for greater and greater...

Half-Life 3 Has To Happen

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Valve doesn’t need to make Half-Life 3. It has Steam and Dota and Counter- Strike. But it should. Since the shocking ending of Half-Life 2: Episode Two, I’ve been dying to find out what happens to Gordon and Alyx. But Valve doesn’t care. It’s busy...