 | | 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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 | | Asuras Wrath | | Release: Feb 23, 2012 | | | 12 millennia is a bloody long time to hold a grudge. Still, if you were a former general of the gods that was booted out of upstairs and fell to Earth – after your wife was murdered and your daughter kidnapped – you might be a tad narky too. This is the story of Asura, who... more |
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|  | | UFC Undisputed 3 | | Release: Feb 17, 2012 | | | It’s time to get it on in the octagon – again! Mind you, this isn’t just another one of those annual releases of a franchise with a couple of inconsequential twiddles trying to make your bank balance cry (those transaction listings are such wusses!), actually it’s almost... more |
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 | | The Adventures of Tintin | | Release: Dec 01, 2011 | | | If you never had the chance to get lost in the exploits of Tintin as a kid then it’s official: you had a deprived childhood. The wispy-haired young reporter and his faithful doggy companion, Snowy, managed some amazing feats, along with their chum, Captain Haddock. The game... more |
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|  | | WWE 12 | | Release: Nov 24, 2011 | | | Don’t call it a comeback! Or hell, you can if you want, as video game wrestling notches it up several gears with this latest in the series of ring pounders. Pick from dozens and dozens of renowned wrestlers – blokes or babes – and go for the smackdown with what promises... more |
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 | | Mario Kart 7 | | Release: Dec 03, 2011 | | | In early 1993, we first sat down with Super Mario Kart on the SNES. Four and a half years – plus innumerable pizzas and bevvies – later, we emerged into the sunlight, bloated, bleary-eyed and with bloody sore thumbs. But we had to; Mario Kart 64 had arrived! There... more |
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|  | | Assassin’s Creed: Revelations | | Release: Nov 15, 2011 | | | Fancy a bit of Italian? Well, how about Ezio, Altair and, erm, Desmond all in one grand finale Renaissance adventure? We’d buy that for a Euro! This latest in the breathtakingly gorgeous saga that crosses history with The Da Vinci Code sees our swarthy trio landing... more |
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 | | Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception | | Release: Nov 03, 2011 | | | Take a pinch of Indiana Jones, a pinch of Lara Croft (careful where you pinch mind) and the pain threshold and insanity of Johnny Knoxville, and you have one of the best protagonists in contemporary gaming. The treasure hunter is back in the third chapter in the Uncharted... more |
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|  | | Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 | | Release: Nov 08, 2011 | | | Join special ops. Travel the world. Meet lots of fascinating people. Kill them. Kicking off right from where the last Modern Warfare instalment wound up, those pesky fictional Russkies are continuing their invasion of a fictional USA (hey, we’d hate to offend anybody). ... more |
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 | | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | | Release: Nov 11, 2011 | | | Never trust a dragon – just ask Yosemite Sam. Mind you, his was a wee little beastie; in Skyrim you’re a dragonslayer tasked with defeating a fiery god that’s believed to be out to destroy the world. No pressure! The beloved action RPG series leaps 200 years on from... more |
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|  | | Saints Row: The Third | | Release: Nov 15, 2011 | | | It’s all very well being a gang and all, but unless you’ve got your own brand of energy drink you just don’t cut it. Looks like those Third Street Saints have made it then – hello celebrity gangsters! This third iteration of the bonkers alternative to GTA ups the insanity...... more |
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 | | Sonic Generations | | Release: Nov 03, 2011 | | | Believe it or not, it was 20 years ago today (well, maybe not exactly today) that Sonic the Hedgehog taught us all to play... really bloody fast. Forget your considered, genteel platform creeping, the spiky one brought balls-to-the-wall speed into the equation, and took... more |
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|  | | Mario And Sonic At The London 2012 Olympic Games | | Release: Nov 10, 2011 | | | We’re living in politically correct times, and the world of games mascots certainly isn’t immune to the tendrils of coochy-coo do-goodery. Helen Lovejoy must be bulging with pride. Yep, it may raise the hackles of old-school 16-bit gamers, but Mario and Sonic are doing the... more |
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 | | Need For Speed: The Run | | Release: Nov 17, 2011 | | | Cannonball! Forget your road rules and speed limits, this isn’t reality so you’ve got lots of room! You’re lead-footing it across the USA from San Francisco to New York in a bid to save your life. Uh-huh, them’s the stakes. Lose – and there are hundreds of cops and dodgy... more |
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|  | | Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7 | | Release: Nov 16, 2011 | | | The blocktacular take on the world of Hogwarts, Gryffindor, Quidditch, Gringotts, Horcruxes and all manner of other wizardly-sounding places and things slithers to its conclusion with the last four movies turned gamey. If you played the last LEGO Harry Potter game – or indeed... more |
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 | | PS3 Move: House Of The Dead Overkill: Extended Cut | | Release: Oct 27, 2011 | | | It took Australia’s Classification Board longer than most to discover what we’ve known for ages – you can’t stop the zombies. Yep, forget it being refused classification, it seems those undead can be quite persuasive when they have to be, and we get the spoils – plus the... more |
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|  | | Rayman Origins | | Release: Nov 24, 2011 | | | Rayman’s adventures were always great platforming fun, until those rascally rabbids came along and stole his star status with their BWAAAAAAH-infused mini-game mayhem. Here we return to the beginning, where the Glade of Dreams has become infested with Darktoons, so bratty... more |
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 | | PS3 Move: Medieval Moves | | Release: Nov 17, 2011 | | | Hey, ancient skeletons of enormous proportions need exercise too, right? They get to cut loose – which is a hassle for you, the titular Deadmund, as you’re competing against them – in this fantasy action game exclusively for PS3 Move. It isn’t some ho-hum role playing thing... more |
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|  | | Batman: Arkham City | | Release: Oct 19, 2011 | | | Set a year on from Arkham Asylum, an area of Gotham slums has been converted into a detention playground for the city’s scummiest. As long as they stay put there they can pretty much do whatever they want. But when Batman learns of notoriety-seeking Two-Face’s plan... more |
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