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One good thing about post-release DLC is that it gives you a great excuse to revisit some classic titles. And with the release of BioWare’s Leviathan DLC for Mass Effect 3, you’ve got an ideal reason to relive one of the greatest action RPGs ever released. The Mass Effect series …
Read More »GAME OF THE DAY: Guild Wars 2
Getting online this weekend was the first battle for many Guild Wars 2 gamers. The three-day headstart hit something of a stumbling block with creaky login servers and firewall problems that look to have cropped up again today on the main launch date. But was Guild Wars 2 worth the …
Read More »GAME OF THE DAY: Transformers Fall of Cybertron
The Transformers IP may have enjoyed a newfound popularity in recent years thanks to Michael Bay’s cinematic adaptations, but Fall of Cybertron is pure 1980s. From the outset, this game is squarely aimed at fans of the G1 animated series and the movie that it spawned – which, imaginatively, was …
Read More »GAME OF THE DAY: Darksiders II brings an end to the summer drought
You know that awful summer drought games fans have to endure every year? Guess what – it’s over! With New Super Mario Bros 2 and Sleeping Dogs last week, and now Darksiders 2 and Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition this week, we can now officially say that the build …
Read More »Fluid Football dribbles toward the top of the iOS charts
GAME OF THE DAY: Some genres have struggled in the transition from TV to touchscreen. Football is not one of them. Early efforts to bring football to smartphones focused on trying to concentrate the established console game model on the smaller, button-less screen. And sometimes it worked, too – X2’s …
Read More »GAME OF THE DAY: Sleeping Dogs finally arrives
Square Enix sure has been busy strengthening its place in the Western market as today’s Game Of The Day shows. The company, famous for its catalogue of Japanese role playing games, has taken charge of some big western titles like Hitman, Deus Ex and Tomb Raider after merging with Eidos …
Read More »New Super Mario Bros 2 is finally here… and well worth the wait
GAME OF THE DAY: Nintendo’s unrelenting critics would have you believe its mascot’s latest handheld outing is ‘Mario by the numbers’. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The moment 3DS owners start up the single-player mode of New Super Mario Bros 2, they will fall into one of two …
Read More »Kairosoft’s latest Café Nipponica makes our iPhones happy
GAME OF THE DAY: If you played any mobile games in 2010 then you’d have most likely came across Kairosoft‘s incessantly addictive title Game Dev Story. The Japanese developer has since released over 15 simulation-focused titles in English on both Android and iOS platforms. The games range from building new …
Read More »Day Z is a haunting PC experience
GAME OF THE DAY: This is only the fourth Game of the Day that MCV has published, and it’s the second time a free title has featured. That’s the modern games industry for you. Well, we say free. Day Z, which is still in beta, is indeed free to download. …
Read More »Espgaluda II brings the arcade to your iPhone
GAME OF THE DAY: There are few core game genres that have successfully excelled on iOS. Cave shooters are certainly one of them. For those who are yet to experience ‘the Cave way’, it goes something like this: You fly a 2D ship horizontally or vertically along a level while …
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