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Dead Space 3 co-op preview: can terror survive a twosome?

This preview originally appeared in issue 248 of PC Gamer UK. In space, you’ll remember, no one can hear you scream. But don’t worry, because you won’t be doing much screaming in Dead Space 3. The series once traded on sl...
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The Game of the Year 2012: Mass Effect 3

I think the reason that Mass Effect 3 remained my favourite game of the year is also the reason it caught some flak: it was the end of a huge story that we were all seriously invested in. For me, that gave the whole 20-hour adv...
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The Most Reassuring Absence of Bigotry of the Year 2012: The Walking Dead

Questions surrounding the portrayal of women in games, and the treatment of women in the games industry, have been with us throughout the year. Encouragingly, the resulting discussion, and events like #1reasonwhy, managed to ri...
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Reinstall: Shogo: Mobile Armor Division

Nothing cool lasts forever. When Shogo ($2.99 on GOG) first landed in 1998, it was in a world where anime was finally making a splash in the West. The likes of Ghost in the Shelland Neon Genesis Evangelion were becoming geek ho...
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The Strategy Game of the Year 2012: XCOM: Enemy Unknown

I knew the moment the tide had turned. It was 15 hours into my first XCOM: Enemy Unknown campaign, and I’d just outfitted my squad’s psychic soldier with psi armour. I’d only discovered Major Tom’s latent mindbending ab...
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The Worst Reason to Pay for a Game Which Doesn’t Exist Yet of the Year 2012: Nostalgia

Remember the past? When everyone swanned around wearing ruffs and eating Werther’s Originals? And there was children’s telly. Proper children’s telly, and videogames. Like arcades, but smaller, in your living room going â...
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Sim-plicity: I am a working single mom

Having retired from world-saving heroics, Christopher Livingston is living the simple life in video games by playing a series of down-to-earth simulations. This week he’s managing a new coffee stand business while trying to m...
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Hi, I have spent about 25 hours in total playing DOTA2 and so far it has been interesting. After transferring to this from League of Legends it has been much of the same although different. I this because although the structure...
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Reinstall: The Pandora Directive

San Francisco, 2043. A long-dead killer signs off on the murder of a college girl with an iconic black arrow. Chinese-style puzzle boxes crafted from mysterious metal begin arriving on the doorsteps of seemingly unconnected peo...
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