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High Class Kitsch’s Pandora: Purge of Pride set to hit the indie scene Student projects rarely rise to anything more than textbook demonstrations which serve only to prove that the students behind them were awake through at least most of their classes. For one group of recent graduates, however, their [...]

Square Enix’s rebirth of Lara Croft mostly successful, except for one nagging bullet-point Three years ago, if you told me that one of the best late-generation games to grace my aging Xbox would be a Tomb Raider title I would have called you crazy. Two months after Crystal Dynamic’s reboot [...]

Choosing a Game of the Year is never easy. It’s hard enough to compare desperate games within a common genre; judging games across an entire spectrum is exponentially more difficult. There is no science to grading games — either for awards or within an individual review — ranking them is [...]

I think we can all agree that the right music can do wonders for a game. A good song choice can add just enough tone to really leave you with some memorable moments. With that being said, I don’t think our Best Soundtrack Award can necessarily go to the games [...]

Geralt of Rivia makes a triumphant debut on Xbox 360 When playing an RPG, there are certain elements we expect the game to have; deep combat, a strong loot system, character progression, and a rich, living world to explore. Perhaps most of all, we expect the game to offer an [...]

I know there will most likely come a point where the Best Download-Only Award becomes irrelevant, but man, I am really glad that point wasn’t this year. With how strong the downloadable scene is every year, it really means a lot to be able to give some recognition to games [...]

If there was one thing 2012 got me excited for, its the bright future games have in terms of visuals. What many games have done visually in the past have definitely continued this year, but we’re hitting a point now where even mostly-realistic shooters are not only looking breath-taking in [...]

There’s nothing marginal about Borderlands 2 The ‘Best Shooter’ category is always a highly contentious one. Fans of long-running, big-budget franchises rabidly defend their latest offerings, and shooter-style games can have vastly different draws. Is the game a multiplayer savant with a large online following (Call of Duty), or is [...]

When you consider all the games that potentially fall into the Action/Adventure category, choosing the best can be a bit of a daunting task. This year was different, though. When it came to 2012, there was really no other game that came to mind for this award besides Dishonored. The strange [...]

The goal is to avoid enemies, but killing them is just so much fun. There are many reasons to praise Klei Entertainment’s Mark of the Ninja. The stealth-based gameplay incorporates the best elements of the genre, creating incredible tension while providing a satisfyingly lethal set of abilities. The open levels [...]