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Fuse

Monday, May 20th, 2013

At first glance, this third-person shooter from developer Insomniac (the studio behind the Resistance series) looks like a Gears of War doppelgänger—right down to its thick-necked goons and levels loaded with cover-providing obstacles.

Call of Juarez: Gunslinger

Friday, May 17th, 2013

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Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, Jesse James—the gang’s all here in this lead-slinging homage to spaghetti Westerns.

Remember Me

Thursday, May 16th, 2013

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At the rate social-networking sites are mining our lives for ad dollars, the dystopian future presented in this third-person action-adventure may end up reflecting our actual tomorrow.

Defiance

Tuesday, May 14th, 2013

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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 [...]

Injustice: Gods Among Us

Friday, May 10th, 2013

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Superhero showdowns have always been the subject of geeky debate.

Grid 2

Tuesday, May 7th, 2013

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Most racing games are fine-tuned for either Coors-swilling speed demons or auto aficionados, but this rides down the center line—it’s a driving simulator that’s as thrilling as it is true-to-spec.

The Last of Us

Tuesday, April 30th, 2013

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Turns out the tree huggers were wrong all along. Nature is mankind’s nemesis in The Last of Us, a postapocalyptic adventure set two decades after the outbreak of a humongous mutant-making fungus.

Gears of War: Judgment

Wednesday, March 27th, 2013

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Just when you thought your days of dismembering subterranean scum with a chain-saw bayonet were over, developer Epic Games has partnered with a new studio for a fourth installment in the Gears of War “trilogy.”

The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct

Tuesday, March 26th, 2013

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Between the series-redeeming third season of AMC’s The Walking Dead and Telltale Games’ acclaimed adventure game based on the comic-book source material, life has been good for fans of the ambulatory deceased.