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  • A Valley Without Wind Review
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    A Valley Without Wind Review

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    There's a certain sense of nostalgia that gets tapped into whenever I load up a 2D sidescrolling exploration platformer, or as their known now a "Metroidvania" experience. Long mornings turned into evenings as I went over every little pixel with every tool in my arsenal, to discover every passage to get every treasure in games like Symphony of the Night and Super Metroid. Recent indie release A Valley Without Wind wants to tap into that while throwing in the proverbial kitchen sink for good measure, so stick with me for a bit.
  • Super Monday Night Combat Review
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    Super Monday Night Combat Review

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    The original Monday Night Combat was a breakout Xbox Live Arcade hit that shouldn't have been one. In the crowded online multiplayer scene dominated by the likes of the Call of Duty, Halo and Gears of War franchises, a little independent title shouldn't be terribly successful - but time has proven it to be one of Xbox Live Arcade's biggest games. The blending of elements from Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, tower defense, and a whole lot of Defense of the Ancients hit the right chord for many people, myself included.
  • Tunnelers Review
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    Tunnelers Review

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    Did you ever see that gigantic machine that digs out gigantic, tunnel-shaped holes in the Earth? It's got that gnarly cone on the front of it that looks like it will just eat your soul if you were to get within 100 feet of it. Imagine if that thing had tank treads, moved pretty quick and had guns on it. Do I have your attention yet? I'm guessing I do, but please, temper your excitement. The game I'm about to tell you about doesn't really live up to that fantastic imagery.
  • Diablo III Preview
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    Diablo III Preview

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    It's coming. Oh Daddy is it coming. That old, familiar, comfortable sound of the left mouse button being pummeled far beyond submission by the return of Blizzard's action RPG mothership Diablo series. It's been a long time since Blizzard released anything official with the "Diablo" name on it, just shy of 11 years at this point, but it's righting that wrong in mid-May with the third major installment, aptly titled Diablo III.
  • Scary Girl Review
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    Scary Girl Review

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    Tim Burton is an auteur in the truest sense of the word. Despite what you think of his films, you can't deny that the man has an unmistakable style for everything he does. If you took a cursory glance at Nathan Jurevicius' Scary Girl comic you'd half expect for Burton's name to be attached to it, but alas, it's not. The colorful, gothic world filled with things that go bump in the night might take some inspiration from the cinematic imagination of the same man who brought us Edward Scissorhands, but it is an independently fascinating world all on its own. After starting life as a browswer-based Flash game, Scary Girl made the leap to consoles earlier this year, and has recently landed on PC in all its platforming strangeness.
  • Confrontation Review
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    Confrontation Review

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    There are all kinds of tabletop games nowadays, and all kinds of gamers who play them. You've got your deck-builders who pour over their Magic cards, constantly trying to build the perfect deck. You've got your D&D groups spending hours on backstory and building dungeons that might get completely passed over. Then you've got your folks who are into the painted miniature scene.
  • Orcs Must Die! 2 Preview
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    Orcs Must Die! 2 Preview

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    There's something to be said when a developer gives you a clear-cut directive in their game. Robot Entertainment's excellent take on tower defense implored you to kill as many orcs as possible in Orcs Must Die!, but by their count, only 3.4 billion orcs have met their end. That is clearly not enough. So they saw fit to make a sequel, Orcs Must Die! 2, which was announced earlier today.
  • Lone Survivor Review
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    Lone Survivor Review

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    I'm not overly well-versed in horror games. I put about 8 hours into Resident Evil 4 before giving up on it, and I've only scratched the surface of Amnesia. Silent Hill, on the other hand, definitely attracted my attention enough to see the first two games to completion. Silent Hill 2, in particular, is nearly a masterpiece. In their early iterations, those games treasured atmosphere and figuring out ways to get under the player's skin better than anything else in gaming. It makes sense then that Lone Survivor comes from Superflat, the same guy who made Soundless Mountain II - a demake of Silent Hill 2.