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Game Picks: ‘Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land’ is a slow, creepy and atmospheric experience.
Modified: 05/23/12 05:04:46 PMGame Picks: The downloadable and addictive ‘Minecraft X360 Edition’ breaks down the sandbox-style game into its most basic component parts.
Modified: 05/17/12 07:09:58 PM
GamePicks: ‘The Walking Dead: Episode One’ is a stylish gaming experience, rich with atmosphere and strong characterizations.
Modified: 05/09/12 06:03:06 PM
Game Picks: ‘FIFA Street 2012’ is a good title for casual soccer fans looking for a sideways introduction to the game.
Modified: 05/02/12 11:27:42 AM
GamePicks: The final title in the trilogy ‘Mass Effect 3’ blends exciting combat and an engaging story.
Modified: 04/25/12 03:39:51 PM
Game Picks: The videogame aims to replicate the excitement of the cheerfully preposterous movie’s best scenes.
Modified: 04/18/12 11:28:04 AM
Game Picks: Shooter fans should enjoy ‘Syndicate’ and its highly evolved combat system, combined with imaginative cyberpunk grimness.
Modified: 04/11/12 11:12:44 AM
Game Picks: “SSX” is easy to learn, hard to master; “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim” is a game you can power through in a weekend or dip into for a few hours.
Modified: 03/29/12 01:30:28 PMCrowd funding has come to game development and collective creativity is coming with it.
Modified: 03/28/12 06:07:27 PM– In a blow to handset maker Nokia, the new “Angry Birds Space” edition of the world’s most popular mobile-phone game won’t appear on Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform.
Modified: 03/26/12 06:00:19 AMThe following games are among those scheduled for release this week, according to Gamestop.com:
Modified: 03/21/12 06:19:57 PMThe exhibit, which runs through September, was shaped by a public vote of which games to display.
Modified: 03/21/12 06:15:57 PMGame Picks: It comes as a surprise to see a game with such obvious flaws as “Grand Slam Tennis 2” (Xbox 360; Rated E; $59.99), EA Sports’ first tennis game for a console other than the Wii.
Modified: 03/20/12 05:19:58 PMVideo games' ratings boards from around the world are working in concert to create a more efficient, less expensive system to rate video games for all countries.
Modified: 03/07/12 06:12:59 PM
Dance games and workout games - these are the genres proven to work and sell like crazy on the Wii.
Modified: 03/07/12 06:07:54 PM
When you're as hopelessly addicted to a game series as I am to the post-apocalyptic "Fallout" franchise, you get your fix anywhere you can.
Modified: 02/29/12 06:24:21 PM
'K ingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning" (Xbox 360; $59.99; Rated M) may ostensibly be an RPG (role-playing game), but it hardly feels like one. It's too fast. It's too smooth. Its combat feels as though it belongs in an action game.
Modified: 02/22/12 05:19:51 PM
'Disney Universe" (Xbox 360; Rated E10; $49.99) is a curious experience. Specifically, for a game called "Disney Universe," it seems oddly distant from the Disney worlds it purports to emulate.
Modified: 02/17/12 04:35:49 AM
Here's the great thing about the much-hyped, massively multiplayer online (MMO) game "Star Wars: The Old Republic" (PC; $49.99+$14.99/mo; Rated T): It never really feels like an MMO, at least not in the way we've been trained to think about MMOs.
Modified: 02/08/12 05:00:26 PM
As a gamer dad, I'm forever on the lookout for video games that the kids and I can both enjoy. It's a rather narrow window, actually.
Modified: 02/01/12 05:21:18 PM
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