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DEFIANCE
TRION WORLDS (XBOX 360, PS3, PC)
Savvy gamers know to treat titles tied to movie or television properties as crappy cash-ins, but Defiance is a more ambitious bit of cross-promotion. This massively multiplayer third-person shooter serves as a complementary component of the new Syfy original series of the same name. While the TV show plays up [...]
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