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You know, it’s so rare that my job feels like work. I mean, I play and write about video games for a living — it’s not a terribly taxing gig.

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Review: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (single player)

Ever since taking a temp job in Gamestation over the Christmas period, I have developed an interest in games that are rated E for Everyone. Well, actually, it’s an interest in good games that are rated E for Everyone.

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Review Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing

Imagine a DS-like cartridge that sticks out the back and has a larger top. It’s not that hard for anyone that makes or reviews games to imagine, as that’s pretty close to the ROMs that games devs use

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Nintendo patents a new DS-like cartridge design

There is a moment in Final Fantasy XIII where everything just clicks . The intricacies of the completely overhauled combat system come into focus; the meandering, convoluted story begins to take shape; the characters stop being insufferably standoffish and begin to coalesce into an engaging menagerie of heroes; the character progression system begins to offer the player a variety of thought-provoking choices; and the game begins to live up to your (I’m assuming) lofty expectations, and Final Fantasy XIII becomes an experience which can go toe-to-toe with the best entries in the franchise. The game gets exceptional after this one moment — but, regrettably, this moment came for me after suffering 15 hours and 30 minutes of pure, unadulterated tedium

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Review: Final Fantasy XIII

For a few reasons, more people are flocking towards EA DICE and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 than ever showed up to cheer on the original Bad Company . The big factor, as far as I can tell, directly relates to a certain other big-name first-person shooter losing a portion of its following because of some sketchy decisions that were made

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Review: Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Attention readers, read this review of Match Defense: Toy Soldiers in conjunction with our review of Toy Soldiers for Xbox Live Arcade, because the two games connect. And that’s the main selling point for this here free Facebook game. Loved Playing Xbox 360 Without Playing Xbox 360: As I reported earlier this week , people who play the gem-matching game reviewed here are contributing points totals to a virtual World War I that links Facebook and Xbox 360 gamers.

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Match Defense Toy Soldiers Micro-Review: Finally, Mom Can Help [Review]

Being a kid is great.

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Toy Soldiers Micro-review: A Farewell To Arms? [Review]

Ironic war games involving plastic army men is nothing new. After all, who can forget Army Men

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Review: Toy Soldiers

Sega and developer Sumo Digital take a stab at kart racing with Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, a chance for Sega characters great and small to, for some reason, get together and settle their difference in go kart competitions. Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing is Mario Kart for the gamer that aligned itself with Sega in its former rivalry with Nintendo, a brightly colored, simple arcade racer that follows the gameplay of long-running Mario-starring series closely.

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Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Review: Remaster System [Review]