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Scare Tactics by Tony McGuire | 18-11-08

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Space trivia 101: Mars wasn't always red you know - it's just been bloodied in battle over the years. Also if you can believe Ridley Scott, "In space, no one can hear you scream."

Okay, so Mars has always been red. But rest assured, the release of Dead Space heralds a new age for the survival horror in the genre’s first...

PS2

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For the Love of... Ico by Brian Ashford | 13-11-08

In the build up to the launch of PlayStation 2, someone at Sony decided the console's graphics processor should be called the Emotion Engine. It was exactly the sort of daft moniker you get during the hype in the run up to a launch. However, there was at least one game that lived up to the sentinment of emotion in game. This was Ico, and it...

Xbox 360

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Adding a little life to LIVE by Brian Ashford | 07-11-08

It may seem a little strange now, but once upon a time all that your games consoles would be able to do was play games. However in these days of mass-multi-media-tech-conglomeration-with-internet-access, anything modestly calling itself a games console is really an entertainment powerhouse striving to be your one-stop portal for all your time...

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Street Fighter: Past Present and Future (Part Two) by Dave Cook | 03-11-08

Part two of our look back at CAPCOM's definitive beat-em-up Street Fighter and a glimpse of what's in store for the next exciting instalment.

In part one, we looked at the rise of a legend in Street Fighter II and the many great versions, crossovers and spin-offs that followed. While titles such as Capcom VS SNK or Street Fighter Alpha...

For the love of... Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines on PC

PC

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For the love of... Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines by Craig Wilson | 27-10-08

Released in 2004, Vampire was the second game to use Valve's source engine. Heavily criticised at the time for its weak combat system and graphical glitches, Vampire rarely received any perfect scores, and due to weak marketing and Half-Life 2's monopoly of contemporary sales, it didn't break any sales records. Yet,...