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Blood Bowl – The Verdict

I am not, by design, a very sporty person. This makes me a curious person to review a game that, behind all its violent trappings, is still a sports game. I don’t watch or play sports, but Blood Bowl still manages to speak to me in a way that I imagine football and [...]

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Need for Speed Shift – The Verdict

Need for Speed Shift is the first game in the reborn Need for Speed franchise, gone are the days of playing cops ‘n robbers and street racing, this time with developers Slightly Mad Studios (of GTR2 and GT Legends fame) the series is entering the same territory as Codemasters’ highly impressive GRID. While Shift is [...]

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Machinarium – New Trailer and Release Date Set

Jakub Dvorský, Machinarium’s lead producer just dropped me a line with news about a new trailer, some amazing concept art and the release date for the game!

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Rose Tinted Retro – Strife

A short backdrop narrative slideshow, and a difficulty screen later, and Strife quickly drops you in it: An angry machine gun totting guard and nothing but a glove with a knife attached for comfort. So far, so Doom. Two bloodied corpses later however, and the next chap you encounter seems distinctly more sedate; furthermore, he [...]

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Welcome Laurence and More Stuff!

Lovely readers, I would like to take this moment to introduce Laurence Elliott to the staff here at The Reticule and explain a handful of other changes taking place. The comment/sidebar problems are being worked on.

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Mass Effect – Looking Back

Ok so it’s been out on the PC for over a year now. And on the Xbox 360 even longer. But I only just got round to playing Mass Effect, and speaking as someone who has become gradually disillusioned by the RPG genre, I was completely blown away by what is an absolute creative masterpiece. [...]

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Tiger Woods Online – Closed Beta Thoughts

If there is one thing I really enjoy doing after a session of Need for Speed: Shift or Resident Evil 5, it is to hit up the closed beta of Tiger Woods Online and play a couple of rounds of golf. Yes, I have been playing a golf game, and I am enjoying it. Tiger [...]

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Games for Windows Live Strikes Again

Three of the biggest PC releases from the past two weeks – Batman, Resident Evil and Red Faction – all have one thing in common, Games for Windows Live. Three of the biggest PC releases in the past couple of weeks all use Microsoft’s PC interpretation of the impressive Xbox 360 Live system. Surely this [...]

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