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War Plan Orange

Will Gaius be forced to give up Merlin’s secret?

It took nearly fourteen hours to finish the first season of Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns. In that time, the village saw fit to slowly dole out necessary equipment that has, in the past, been included with your farm. In fact, it wasn’t until the first day of …

Anytime anything beloved is changed there’s going to be a reaction, and it’s usually going to be negative – nostalgia can be blinding like that. It can make people look at beauty with disgust, and make rational, sensible changes appear blasphemous. As is the reaction to Cave Story 3D, the …

How much time and money are you willing to lose in order for a game to sell your own nostalgia back to you? If your answer was anywhere above an hour and five dollars, then you’re in luck! Serious Sam: The Random Encounter will cost you exactly that. Even so, …

Desperate measures

Oh, Totori, you’re too cute for words. You’ve got a heart of gold and we can’t help but root for you. You capture the essentials that make a JRPG tick perfectly – tons of exploration, quirky party banter intermingled with deep characterization, and you pull us in with your addictive …

We won’t tease you for longer than this sentence – Gears of War 3 is awesome. The campaign is epic, with action sequences that are more intense, weapons that are more powerful, enemies that are more formidable and heroes that are more relatable than ever before. The multiplayer is extremely …

Three young Mossad agents find it’s harder than they thought to administer rough justice in John Madden’s (Shakespeare In Love) latest, a tense remake of a 2007 Israeli drama in which a plot to spirit a notorious war criminal out of 1960s East Berlin unravels disastrously. Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain …

But I’m getting ahead of myself. For those who’ve never encountered Bodycount before, it’s a first-person shooter designed to put the fun back into shooting things. From the creators of Black (although with Stuart Black himself quitting the project before it was complete), it’s similarly heavy on the destruction and …