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    Omerta: City of Gangsters Review

    Posted 06/11/2013 at 9:25am | by David Murphy
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    Omerta’s black-market system is fairly easy to exploit, given the seemingly ludicrous offers you receive.Fails to execute as a simulation or strategic shooter

    When we see a gangster game come out—especially one that blends our love of building a true, bootleggy, 1930s-style criminal empire with our zest for shooting thugs with poorly executed Italian accents—we get a little anxious. It’s true. Give us a game that looks like a cross between Theme Park and Mafia and we’ll be set for quite a long while, cackling with glee as we outrun the cops in old-timey cars while trying to deliver our bootlegged booze to our various speakeasies.

    Note: This review was taken from the April issue of the magazine.

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    Column: Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition is a Disappointment

    Posted 05/03/2013 at 11:25am | by Thomas McDonald
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    baldur's gate enhanced editionIf only it were as good as the XCOM remake

    For the second time in as many months The Ghost of Games Past has visited my PC to remind me of classic games... and how much better they are now.

    Note: This column was taken from the February 2013 issue of the magazine.

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    Zombie Games Roundup

    Posted 05/02/2013 at 3:05pm | by Evan Lahti
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    Zombie gamesIn the zombie apocalypse, your worst enemies might actually be humans.

    The rules used to be simple: Don’t get bitten; destroy the brain. Zombie games like Left 4 Dead, Killing Floor, and Resident Evil shared a vaguely similar approach, even as they offered terrific takes on one of horror’s most ubiquitous subgenres.

    Note: This article first appeared in the January issue of the magazine.

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    Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Beta Impressions

    Posted 04/16/2013 at 12:28pm | by Gavin Farrington
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    radial gradient tool

    Adobe Photoshop Lr5 Beta Now Available

    Today Adobe officially lifts the veil on the next version of Lightroom 5.  While still very much a beta product, this is our first chance to take a peek at the new features that await.

     

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    Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Review

    Posted 04/04/2013 at 1:40pm | by David Murphy
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    Heart of the Swarm reviewHeart of the Swarm is one great (Zerg) rush

    Absence makes the heart grow fonder.  That, or tentacles – because it’s certainly not Sarah Kerrigan’s disposition that keeps cowboy-turned-space-marine Jim Raynor chasing after his queen in Blizzard’s Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm.

    We’re not spoiling anything you haven’t already seen on any of the game’s trailers – or box art.  Kerrigan is back and ready to lead her squishy-sounding army of Zerg to victory once again, flattening out any speed bumps in her way within one of the three plots Blizzard knows how to write nowadays: The good old Revenge Quest.   

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    Windows 8 Review

    Posted 03/16/2013 at 4:14pm | by David Murphy
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    Microsoft straps a tablet operating system to Windows 8. Should enthusiasts make the big upgrade? 

    Microsoft’s Windows 8 is not a want, it’s a necessity. Not for you, the consumer. For Microsoft.

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    We've updated our Windows 8 Review to include tidbits on the upcoming Windows Blue update

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    XBMC vs. Plex

    Posted 03/15/2013 at 3:03pm | by Brad Chacos
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    XBMC

    The battle of the free media players

    Attention, would-be cord cutters: If you’re going to tell the cable man to shove it, you’re going to want a full-featured media center app to make browsing your digital movies, music, and pictures as pretty and painless as possible. Two of the top no-cost contenders are the open-source XBMC and Plex, a partly proprietary fork of XBMC that focuses on streaming media to multiple devices. Which is the blockbuster and which is the dud? Let’s find out.

    Note: This article first appeared in the December issue of the magazine. 

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    Dishonored Review

    Posted 03/14/2013 at 3:26pm | by Chris Zele
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    Dishonored

    It was an honor

    Dishonored is a refreshingly stealthy change of pace in a first-person-shooter market crowded with Call of Battlefield-type games that seem like they were produced by Michael Bay. Don’t get us wrong—we love blowing stuff up, and we love killing terrorists, but sometimes we like to take a break from the frantic action and unwind with a night of stealthy throat slitting and neck snapping. After all, a man’s got to relax. This is what Dishonored delivers; a game based on stealth, tactics, and the delightful task of mastering a broad range of mystical abilities, providing us with a much-needed change of scenery in an FPS landscape dominated by desert warfare shooters, Borderlands 2 notwithstanding.

    Note: This review was originally featured in the January 2013 issue of the magazine.

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    Stardock Start8 vs. Classic Shell

    Posted 03/12/2013 at 2:13pm | by Josh Norem
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    Windows 8 stardock

    Stardock Start8 vs. Classic Shell

    Most power users would be perfectly willing to upgrade to Windows 8 if it weren’t for two things—the tile-based “Metro” interface and the missing Start button. While Metro is like a rash in that you eventually get used to it, we can’t imagine getting used to the lack of a Start button. It’s too bad Microsoft didn’t give us the option of using both features, but fortunately, two third-party utilities do. If you want the speed of Windows 8 and your old buddy the Start menu, one of these utilities belongs on your system. Let’s find out which one.

    Note: This head-to-head feature appeared in the Holiday 2012 issue of the magazine.

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    Crysis 3 Review

    Posted 03/07/2013 at 5:15pm | by Tom McNamara
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    Crysis 3

    Third time is not quite the charm

    PC gaming is where you go for high-octane visuals, and the original Crysis was no exception when it dropped in 2007. The highly anticipated sequel in 2011, however, proved a less ambitious affair. We traded a vast, free-roam jungle for the relatively restricted avenues of a war-torn New York City. There was usually more than one route to take, but this more linear experience arrived with some seams showing: Its advanced graphical options were inaccessible, the AI did not impress, and it did not even use DirectX 11 (at first). Crysis 3 fares better in some ways, but not in others.

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