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 South Park: The Stick of Truth review: Game captures feel of showVideo games based on TV shows are usually as enjoyable as a loose, wet fart aimed directly at your face. You can count the exceptions to this rule on one hand. A Simpsons character's hand, even.
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 New 'Aliens' game dated, uninspiredIn space, no one can hear you yawn.
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 'DmC: Devil May Cry' reinvigorates franchiseYou mustn't judge a book by its cover. Or a man by his haircut.
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 Atari files for bankruptcy protectionVideo game company Atari SA said it filed for bankruptcy protection in Paris and New York on Monday after it failed to find a successor to main shareholder and sole lender BlueBay as it wrestles with tough market conditions.
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 'Dead Island Riptide's 'Zombie Bait' details unveiledThe creators of the upcoming zombie action game Dead Island Riptide are taking considerable heat after unveiling the contents of the so-called "Zombie Bait" special edition of the game, which lands in Europe this April.
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 THQ gets court approval for sale of assetsVideo game maker THQ Inc said it received court approval to sell its assets to various buyers for about $72 million US and will split up following the sale.
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 'Resident Evil: Revelations' to launch on more systemsAfter the disappointing Resident Evil 6 crapped all over the hopes of longtime Resident Evil fans last fall, there's now a spot of bright light with the news that the Nintendo 3DS title Resident Evil: Revelations will be landing on the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U and PC on May 21.
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 'Hawken' stunning, but gouges your walletThere's something about watching giant robots beating and shooting the crap out of each other that holds a special place in our collective pop-culture consciousness
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 'Seduce Me' breaks nudity tabooThere's a moral double standard in mainstream entertainment, one that's most keenly felt in video games. Namely, it's perfectly OK to engage in all forms of graphic virtual violence, but if you show anything sexual ... well, it's game over.
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 'Power Rangers' game even worse than seriesAbout five minutes into a climactic battle - to use the words "climactic" and "battle" very loosely - with a many-mouthed monster called Splitface, I was ready to walk away from Power Rangers Super Samurai, a game that's even worse than "Kinect title based on kids' TV show" might suggest.
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 Rip your way through a paper world in 'Tearaway'It's one of those video game ideas that sounded good on paper. And on paper is exactly where it stayed.
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 'Seduce Me' stimulates the brainIt's probably not a shock that Amsterdam-based indie studio No Reply Games saw their debut title Seduce Me kicked off Steam, the ubiquitous digital download platform for PC and Mac games.
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 No 'Tomb Raider' for Wii U?Lara Croft has no love for the Wii U, it seems, with the development studio behind the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot saying a version of the game for Nintendo's new console is not likely. Man, this is not great news for Nintendo - with next-gen consoles from Microsoft and Sony expected to debut as early as this fall, a drop-off of third-party support
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 'Temple Run 2' hampered by gem purchasesMy legs are tired. May I please stop running?
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 Sam Fisher returns in 'Splinter Cell Blacklist'The fate of the free world rests in the hands of one highly trained, exceptionally lethal American super-spy. And the fate of that American super-spy now rests in the hands of a bunch of folks in Toronto.
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 End-of-the-world themed 'The Last of Us' poses moral, ethical questionsPost-apocalyptic fiction comes in many flavours, whether it's about a man and his son just trying to survive another day, a scientist struggling against solitude or a group of desperate survivors fighting off corpses that have shambled back to life.
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 Recap of video game chat with Steve TilleyCheck out the recap of our chat with QMI Agency's Steve Tilley where he gives us his hands-on impressions of The Last of Us and God of War: Ascension for the PS3, and Tearaway and Killzone: Mercenary for the PlayStation Vita.
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 Take your favourite PS3 character into battleWe've seen the PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale model before: a multi-player fighting game with plenty of bells and whistles, and enough random kills to make anyone titter like a stoned frat boy.
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 'Assassin's Creed III' more of the sameEver wanted to play a descendant in a long line of assassins who spends his time running along a seemingly endless wilderness brandishing tomahawks and rope darts? No? Well, then you may not want to play Assassin's Creed III as you'll find yourself doing that a lot.
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Go small with the Wii Mini Cue the jokes about a shrinking Wii: "I swear, this has never happened before!"
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 'Far Cry 3' like a vacation in HellYour flight got delayed and you missed your connection. The hotel messed up your reservation and you had to wait three hours to get into your suite. Your room service breakfast was cold. You found a cockroach in the bathtub.
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 Active video games don't make kids healthier: ReportActive video games, or so-called "exergames," don't do much to get kids moving, a new report says.
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 The ultimate fighting game battle royale: Round 3The gaming world's greatest fighters are testing their might as they enter Round 3.
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 Defend the Earth from aliens in 'XCOM'XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a most curious artifact. In an era known for constant iteration on established formulas, 2K Games have somehow managed to put a faithful remake of one of PC gaming's most cherished strategy titles in front of the mass market, in the hopes that the tarted up presentation will convince enough dudebros to bite.
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 'Hitman: Absolution' a killer titleAs a grumpy ol' gamer, I sometimes get up out of my rocking chair and angrily wave my cane at whippersnappers who have no appreciation for patience in video gaming. You kids and your sprinting space marines! Why, back in my day we waited five whole minutes in one spot just to suss out a guard's patrol pattern! And we liked it!
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