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Left 4 Dead

Norman Chan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:00:00 -0600

We’ve relished the movies about it. We’ve daydreamed about it happening in our own lives. We’ve even drawn up detailed plans for how to survive the admittedly unlikely event of a zombie apocalypse (answer: barricade ourselves in the local Costco). There’s just something so tantalizingly thrilling about the prospect of fighting for survival in an undead-infested world.

Left 4 Dead, Valve Software’s new multiplayer first-person shooter, delivers that awesomely terrifying experience to us. Abandoned metropolises, a ragtag band of hapless strangers, and an endless horde of infected humans—all the staples of a nail-biting George A. Romero zombie epic—are present and accounted for in this ambitious cooperative adventure. But how does this game hold up to our obsessive zombie fantasies? We busted a few thousand undead skulls to find out.

Rainbow Six Vegas 2

Norman Chan — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:06:48 -0500

Rainbow Six Vegas 2 looks and plays like a rehash of last year’s original. Put both action shooters side by side and you’d be hard-pressed to distinguish between them. This doesn’t mean Vegas 2 is terrible—the first game was a righteous shoot-’em-up that melded quick pacing with exciting firefights. The follow-up fleshes out the story and completes the plot lines left unfinished in the last go-round, but it falters from the same tiresome action sequences that are more frustrating than challenging.

Frontlines: Fuel of War

Norman Chan — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:04:41 -0500

With the price of oil surpassing $100 a barrel, the apocalypse imagined
in Frontlines: Fuel of War may not be so far away. In this vision of
the future, the world’s remaining superpowers—split between two
factions—clash in a winner-take-all war for Earth’s last oil reserves.
Lucky for us, this makes a great backdrop for some intense multiplayer
skirmishes.

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Zalman FPSGun FG1000

Will Smith — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:39:04 -0600

We've tested some crazy mice over the years, from ergonomic wonders designed to prevent RSI to dedicated gaming mice shaped like an actual handgun, but the new Zalman FPSGun is one of the oddest-looking designs we've ever tested. We approve of its neutral-grip, sensor-forward design, but the actual implementation has resulted in a mouse that's just too small for the vast majority of gamers to use.

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Nvidia Launching New Hardware to Coincide with Crysis Release

Michael Brown — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:56:45 -0500

It's no longer rumor: Nvidia will launch new hardware in November.

Battlefield 2142

Will Smith — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:41:23 -0600

The latest Battlefield installment leaves Nazi's behind and tackles the future's tougher issues, like ad placement.

Prey

Josh Norem — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:26:54 -0500

Use your inherited Native American prowess to defeat otherwordly foes in one hell of a shooter.