We choose five of the year's best.
What a year. So many fantastic games, so many hours whiled away in videogame bliss. With a new year only a day away, it’s customary for the industry to look back and pick apart the offerings to find the best
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Picture the scene. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Team Deathmatch. Highrise map. The score is perfectly balanced at 9900-9900. The next kill wins the match. You jump out of the window at one end of the map, and you
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Playing the game through a second time following my review of Darksiders, I decided to round up some interesting articles floating around the internet on Vigil Games’ apocalyptic adventure.
Art Of War: Creating Darksiders’ Protagonist – A look at the way
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War. Huh! What is he good for?
Darksiders’ wide-eyed adoration of God Of War and the Zelda franchise has been well-documented (both on this blog and elsewhere) but its gamut of influences doesn’t stop there. It even finds time to channel the 3rd-person shooter mechanics of Gears
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Minimalist witch and horseman.
Sassy, deadly Umbra Witch and betrayed Horseman Of The Apocalypse from this year’s biggest blockbusters to date, Bayonetta and Darksiders, get the Videogame Minimalism treatment. Check them out over on the infinitecontinues Flickr page.
Darksiders doesn’t so much wear its influences on its sleeve as sport the official fan club badges on its gleaming plated breast; ‘We ♥ God Of War’ they read, and ‘The Legend of Zelda Appreciation Society’. But if you are
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