 | | Max Payne 3 | | Release: May 18, 2012 | | Max is back where he belongs, under the control of our sweaty fingers! Despite a movie star dalliance, it seems things aren't all sunshine and lollypops in the world of Mr Payne. Since we last played he’s older, more world weary and living in Brazil, providing security for... more |
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|  | | Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier | | Release: May 24, 2012 | | | The future is now. Well, it is in this latest tactical shooter escapade featuring author Tom Clancy’s name sticky-taped to the title. You jump forward a few years to where war tech has evolved with a little theoretical help from one of Delta Force’s big cheeses, Charlie... more |
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 | | DiRT Showdown | | Release: May 24, 2012 | | | Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the dustbowl, hoon (and mighty proud of it) Ken Block and his pals return to get deep down and dirty. Forget all that rally stuff that’s been the hallmark of the DiRT series up to now, as Showdown takes the extreme racing,... more |
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|  | | Diablo III | | Release: May 15, 2012 | | | After 20 years of peace, the world of Sanctuary is about to cop a whole lot of evil again. With the Worldstone destroyed, it’s open to assault from all things Heaven and Hell, so it’s time to go demon stabbing. Again. Those returning to the Diablo dungeon-diving, hack-and-slay... more |
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 | | Dragon's Dogma | | Release: May 24, 2012 | | | Stop dragon my heart around... Sorry, smooth ’80s West Coast flashbacks. Please send help! Ahem, anyway, those with a predilection for arcade-skewed hacking and slashing should be getting excited right about now. Not only does Dragon’s Dogma introduce a whole new and massive... more |
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|  | | Prototype 2 | | Release: Apr 24, 2012 | | | HACK! HACK! BLEURGH! Excuse us, we’ve got a bit of a cold – public transport will do that. Still, we mustn’t grumble, as it’s nothing compared to the Blacklight virus – so deadly that its name is capitalised. Yep, catch that and a runny nose will be the least of your troubles,... more |
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 | | Birds of Steel | | Release: Mar 22, 2012 | | | Those army boys think they’re so bloody special, what with all the games they get to play with. Well fly guys, it’s your turn. Climb into any of 100+ WWII birds (and you thought there were just Spitfires, Zeroes and Messyschme… Messasch… umm, German planes) and take to the... more |
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|  | | The Witcher 2 | | Release: Apr 17, 2012 | | | Yeah, well if you’re so magical and all, why did it take almost a year to get from the PC to the 360? Ahem, sorry ’bout that. We’d better shut it before we’re turned froggy or something – after all, it’s not easy being green. Anyway, this second gamey visitation upon the... more |
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 | | Kinect Star Wars | | Release: Apr 05, 2012 | | | George Lucas has spent years messing with the Star Wars trilogy... and those other three flicks. Now it’s your turn. Gamers have never been starved for Star Wars releases, but whether good or bad they’ve all lacked the ability to feel like you’re using the Force rather than... more |
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|  | | Total War: Shogun 2 Fall Of The Samurai | | Release: Mar 22, 2012 | | | Creative Assembly have never been shy backing up a major release with quality DLC and expansion packs, and once again this is the case here. Following the release of Total War Shogun 2 12 months ago, the development team commenced work on the Fall of the Samurai... more |
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 | | Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City | | Release: Mar 22, 2012 | | | Got the taste to lay more zombies to waste? Then have we got a deal for you! Although this latest entry in the series that pretty much invented the make-the-undead-deader genre, changes the usual shooter formula a little.
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|  | | Mass Effect 3 | | Release: Mar 08, 2012 | | | Alien planets must be really crappy. Why so? Well, for all our apparent destruction of Mother Earth – squandering her natural resources, chopping down her trees and otherwise going the scorch – alien scum still seem to queue up to give the old invasion a go. So, it’s battle... more |
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 | | Ninja Gaiden 3 | | Release: Mar 22, 2012 | | | Sneak. Sneak-sneak. Sneak-sneak-sneakitysneak. CLUNK! WAHOOGA! DAMN! OK, so we’re completely non-ninjatastic. Luckily, Ryu Hayabusa is pretty darned excellent at it, for he’s the returning star of this latest Gaiden escapade.
If you’re not familiar, the title may make... more |
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|  | | Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D | | Release: Mar 08, 2012 | | | Welcome to the jungle, we think you’re gonna feel you belong… Right, now that we’ve finished our freaky experiment to splice Guns ‘n’ Roses with Alice Cooper, it’s on to this revamp of the classic prequel to the ever-popular Snake Tales. When it comes to stealth,... more |
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 | | Yakuza: Dead Souls | | Release: Mar 15, 2012 | | | Bloody zombies! Is there any escaping them? They’ll be reading the news and having their own dieting reality shows next. Still, the honourable world of the Yakuza can always be looked upon as a bastion of shamble-free taste, yeah? Nah, now even they’ve succumbed.
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|  | | Street Fighter X Tekken | | Release: Mar 08, 2012 | | | What do you get when you combine the fighting might of two of the most successful brawler series’ ever in Street Fighter and Tekken? Umm, twice the fight-fighting power we guess... This puppy comes from Street Fighter peeps Capcom, so basically uses their familiar 2Dish... more |
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 | | Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 | | Release: Mar 29, 2012 | | | Following the greatest golfer of all time’s off-course indiscretions a couple of years back, you pretty much needed a magnifying glass to find him on the cover of last year’s PGA Tour game. But time wounds all heels – or something - and he’s back in pride of place on this... more |
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|  | | Silent Hill Downpour | | Release: Mar 22, 2012 | | | If you go out in the rai-ee-ain, you’ll never have that time again... Prophetic words from New Zealand's Dragon. It could describe this eighth in the series of survival horror sojourns, yet it was released around 30 years ago. Spooky! A word which also neatly summarises... more |
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 | | Final Fantasy XIII-2 | | Release: Feb 02, 2012 | | | We really think somebody at Square Enix needs to look up the meaning of the word ‘final’. Still, English comprehension’s loss is gamers’ gain, as the ever-popular RPG series rolls ever onwards. As the title intimates, this is a direct follow-on from the last instalment,... more |
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|  | | Soul Calibur V | | Release: Feb 02, 2012 | | | Damn, is it really 17 years since SoulCalibur IV? Of course it isn’t, although that many years have passed within its story world. Sophitia’s feeling her age, so her son Patroklos and daughter Pyrrha have taken over the family business with the punching and kicking... more |
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 | | Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning | | Release: Feb 09, 2012 | | | When you think of supergroups, you usually think bloaty musicians going the team-up and getting all “we mean it man” on skyscraper-like banks of glockenspiels. Thankfully, this product from a game-creating supergroup flicks the bloat and just gives great RPG. How super?... more |
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|  | | The Darkness 2 | | Release: Feb 10, 2012 | | | Hello Darkness my old friend... Well, in this case it might be worth dropping the ‘r’ from ‘friend’, you’ll know what we mean if you played the first in the series. Basically, Jackie’s back. It’s two years later and having harnessed the incredible power of the Darkness with... more |
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 | | Binary Domain | | Release: Feb 23, 2012 | | | Tokyo, 2080. The world’s gone all kind of, well, Blade Runner, but with lots of guns. Yes, we’ve seen the future, and it’s full of robots that are indistinguishable from humans – right down to those things that used to separate us from machines, emotions. So, of course,... more |
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|  | | Grand Slam Tennis 2 | | Release: Feb 10, 2012 | | | UNGH! URGH! GRUMPF! AIEEE! Oh, sorry, we were just playing grunt-along-a-Sharapova. She’s just one of a smart roster of current and classic players who’ve rocked up for this latest tennis offering. Seriously, another tennis game? Yep, but this one has a key ace up its sleeve…... more |
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