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Bastion is a fantastic debut from Supergiant Games. It tells the story of The Kid, one of the few survivors of the calamity, an event which tore the world asunder leaving little more than floating fragments of the old World. As The kid you are charged with first getting to

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Torchlight is a rather nifty game available on XBLA and harks back to my dark days of gaming where every new release would se me frantically ensuring my PC was game ready. I sunk a fair amount of time into Diablo as a teen and sitting down to Torchwood brought back memories of endless click storms through asymmetric dungeons until the early hours of the morning. Ahhh Good times.

If you missed out on Diablo then never fear, torchlight is here. Originally released on PC back in 2009, which didn’t even register on my hardened console gamer exterior, the game has been polished and adapted to work correctly for a controller. Ditching the mouse in this style of point’n’click RPG is a refreshing change to the constant mouse waggling inherent with the PC. The simple act of moving your character helps with the immersion as you feel in control of your hero rather than in management assigning waypoints to your lackey. The control system reminds me of Sacred 2 in a lot of ways which is an epic sized ‘point’n’click RPG with all sorts of complicated stat systems and rules with a much darker and realistic feel. Torchlight keeps it simple which equates to more time slaying monsters and less time running numbers to get the perfect min/max on your character.

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BulletStorm crept up on me. I didn’t pay much attention to the pre release build up, I didn’t download the demo. The simple fact is I knew very little about this game until a couple days before release when a friend sent a link to the ‘Whip, Kick, Boom’ trailer and that when my eyes went all glazed and I fell in love. Fresh IP is a rarity these days and what the trailer promised got me quite excited.

BulletStorm is a story about revenge. After being betrayed by their General, Dead Echo goes rogue and become space pirates. 10 years later in an Alcohol fuel attack on the General star ship which leaves both ships crashing into a nearby resort planet… filled with violent criminals and mutated freaks. Without giving to much away this game has a reasonable story and the script had my laughing pretty hard at some points, be warned though, its not cerebral humour. To be honest though the story isn’t what BulletStorm is about, Bullet storm is about killing things. Not so much about now they are dead, more about how they are dead. 

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As part of there weeklong Undead Nightmare Pack reveal, Rockstar have unveiled the first screenshots from the forthcoming downloadable content pack for Red Dead Redemption. 

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Just in from Rockstar, this original artwork from the Undead Nightmare Pack for Red Dead Redemption. Featuring a zombiefied homage to the original Red Dead Redemption cover art. Sweet!

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Mafia 2’s rap sheet now includes a Guinness World Record for “most swearing in a video game.” The mob saga surpassed House of the Dead: Overkill’s 189 permutations on the word “f*ck” by … well, they’re still counting. Seriously. A representative for Guinness World Records said that at the moment

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I’ve never really understood the Halo phenomenon. I’ve met people who have raved about the multiplayer, yet I’ve never found it as addictive or fun as the Call of Duty series. I’ve met people who have raved about the story, yet I’ve always found it overly complex and cartoony. But

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In the battle for console domination, it can often be the first to step up that wins the fight, so with Sony releasing it’s Move controllers over two months before Microsoft are ready to launch their Kinect control system, you may be wondering if Sony have what it takes to

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Boys, blokes and nerds of all ages will find something to spin their wheels at the 2010 Armageddon Expo, ASB Showgrounds, Labour Weekend (23rd – 25th October), 2010. With Cyber Game Tournaments, National Skateboarding Championships, Paintball, Comic Guest Panels, IPW wrestling stars, eating contests, Trading Card Tournaments and even a

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