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Shattered Horizon – The Verdict

It’s probably not to Shattered Horizon’s advantage that us fleshy meat bags need a large space-time bending rock to get on with life. Because I guarantee your first hours will mostly be characterized by long, silent “noooooo”’s as you spin off starfish style into space, whether thanks to more skill endowed astro-bastards, or your own [...]

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Chet Faliszek Interview

Friend of The Reticule Glenn Lawrence was down at Eurogamer London this past weekend, he had the chance to meet up with Valve’s Chet Faliszek to talk about all manner of Left 4 Dead topics. Here we go!

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Overgrowth = Ninja Rabbit Combat

Overgrowth, we haven’t talked about it for a while but today all that changes! The team have released a new video for the game which explains what it is all about. Ninja Rabbit Combat anyone?

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Tales of Monkey Island Episode 4 – The Verdict

We’re now at the penultimate episode of Telltale’s adventures of Guybrush Threepwood, and it’s fairly easy to say that The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood is the best one yet. Indeed, it’s the best Telltale game out of everything they’ve produced. But at the same time, it’s also the episode that makes it very [...]

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Looking Back at Half-Life Uplink

Half-Life Uplink is, for those of you who aren’t aware, the classic demo for the original Half-Life. It is also the first taste of Half-Life that I experienced some ten years ago or more when I came across the demo on an old demo CD that came with a long-gone PC magazine.

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Cities XL – The Verdict

Imagine a game where you can create a city then go online and visit the creations of others. Well you don’t have to imagine as Cities XL does just that, you would think then that it is would be a brilliant game, unfortunately it isn’t, it is a game which is at times extremely infuriating.

If [...]

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On The Enemies of Half-Life

After seemingly hours spent fighting my way through Combine Metro Cops and manhacks I was glad to see those cute little headcrabs launch themselves up towards my face. It was something of a relief to see these, the most basic of alien life form you find in the Half-Life universe. By the time they made [...]

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The World of Goo Birthday Pricing Experiment

2D Boy’s amazing World of Goo turned a year old last week and since then, and until this Sunday, they have been running an experiment where you can buy World of Goo for any price you want.

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