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F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin – Demo Impressions

The more astute out there may have noticed that Monolith and WBIE have put out demos of F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin for all 3 launch formats. The Xbox 360 & PS3 versions are available over their respective networks, whilst the PC demo is available at all good download repositories. Impressions after the cut…

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The Lord of the Rings: Conquest Review

Orks on the left of him, Elves on the right…  Andrew Bryant is stuck in the middle with a licensed game.

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Diesel Power: Riddick Dark Athena Intro

Escape from Butcher Bay was really a diamond in the rough – a first person shooter on consoles that did something different from day one & serves nicely as an example of a tie-in game that was a) completely unrelated to its companion movie and b) significantly better than said motion picture too boot! Originally […]

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Mini Ninjas debut trailer – Mr. 47 not confirmed

In a turn up for the books (and possibly after the critical slating their second I.P., Kane and Lynch, got) IO Interactive’s next game is neither violent nor a Hitman game (awwww). Nope, the cel-shaded adventures of pint-sized diminutive ronin assassins is the name of the game this time around and there’s a debut trailer […]

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Mirror’s Edge Review

Clearly late for work again, Andrew Bryant is spotted leaping from rooftop to rooftop in a hurry.

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Deadly Ironic – L4D & Dead Space Postmortems

1Up.com (or what’s left of it) is now carrying retrospectives looking into last years double-whammy of undead shoot-em-ups. The Left 4 Dead ‘afterthoughts’ cover such topics as the concept behind the infection, Louis’ origins as a god botherer and the shear number of procedural conversations the survivors can (and will) have. It’s worth chiming in […]

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Resi 5 Demo to Finally Hit the West

Capcom sent word that the highly anticipated demo of Resident Evil 5 (which has been out on the Japanese Marketplace for god knows how long now) will finally hit XBL worldwide on January 26th. It will be exclusive to the 360 for one Week at which point PS3 owners will be able to get in […]

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LOTR: Conquest Ships

Gameinfowire.com are carrying the story that The Lord of the Rings: Battlefront Conquest has been released for the Xbox 360, PS3, Nintendo DS & PC. Developed by Pandemic Studios (they of SW: Battlefront & Mercenaries fame), the game transplants the Battlefront gameplay into the high fantasy universe created by J. R. R. Tolkien and features […]

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Patches galore

After a bit of whinging from their respective communities (not without warrant mind you), two of the biggest games of the last few months get some patch news worth talking about. First up, Blues News are carrying news of an announcement on the Bethesda Forum that the first proper patch for Fallout 3 (cunningly carrying […]

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F.E.A.R 2 Demo to hit 22nd Jan, PC System Requirements Released

Warner Bros have released the PC System Requirements for F.E.A.R 2: Minimal specification: – CPU: P4 2.8GHz (3.2GHz Vista)/Athlon 64 3000+ (3200+ Vista) – GPU: Fully DX9-compliant graphics card with 256MB (SM 2.0b). NVidia 6800 or ATI X700. – Memory: 1GB (1.5GB Vista) – HDD: 12GB – OS: Windows XP SP2/Vista SP1 – DirectX: 9.0c […]