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Top Ten of 2011 – 10. Magicka

Magicka was one of the first games of the year, and is first on our list. Released in January by small indie team Paradox studios, the game was originally broken as hell. Anyone who bought it in its first few weeks of life would have played a bug-filled mess of a game. Luckily for us, we didn’t buy it until a few months later when everything had been ironed out. Featuring 4-player co-op, its an isometric action game, injected with humour and the best spell-casting system we’ve ever seen in a game.

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Top Ten Games of 2011 Countdown

2011 is over, then. It was an interesting year for gaming, with a relatively slow start and only a handful of big game sequels appearing early on with the likes of Little Big Planet 2, a new Total War game and Dragon Age 2. This was followed up by a great summer featuring The Witcher 2, LA Noire, a new Valve game and the unbelievable release of the mammothly disappointing Duke Nukem Forever. Then Winter came, good grief. In what proved to be one of the best gaming winters of all time, we could hardly keep up with the amount of games that came out week after week for the final few months of the year. Uncharted 3, Saints Row The Third and Modern Warfare 3 all hit us within a couple of weeks, we had a new Assassin’s Creed game, old-school arcade fun from Renegade Ops, a return to form from Sega in Sonic Generations and charming puzzler Trine 2 just managed to squeeze in before the year was out.

But none of these games were good enough to make our list. No, the top 10 games of 2011 are better than all of these. Care to find out what they are? Check back here every day as we count them down… Read More ››

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Game Announcement of the Week

Grand Theft Auto 5 is officially announced. Apparantly, we’ll have a trailer to gawp at next week. Read More ››

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HD Remake of the Week

Ico and Shadow of the Colossus have been re-released for the PS3 this week. They have never looked more stunning. Click above for full-size image. Read More ››

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Cyborg Day – Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Brb for a few days. Read More ››

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Launch Trailer of the Week

Deus Ex: Human Revolution is out this week. We are quite looking forward to playing it. If you’re lucky enough to be American, you should stop reading and go play it right now… just don’t tell us. We’ll get angry. Read More ››

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WTF of the Week

A Chinese couple sold three of their children to fund their gaming habits. What. The. Fuck?

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We’re 1 Today!

Blimey. An entire year of gaming-related ramblings and ravings, the odd review, and those three rants… It’s been such a fun year, we’ve decided to carry on a while longer and see what happens. If you’ve ever read our words, cheers. If this is your first visit, well, sorry it had to be one of these annoying self-indulgent birthday messages. Just come back again tomorrow.

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Apocalyptic Screenshot of the Week

Courtesy of id’s Rage. Clicky for biggy. Read More ››

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Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam Impressions

So Battlefield 3 is out soon, but we just got hold of the Vietnam expansion to Bad Company 2 and had a three hour blast on it last night. Hughie’s, flamethrowers and NAPALM. Oh yes.

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An Explosive E3 Roundup

E3 2011 Roundup

So last week saw a fantastic range of explosive awesomeness at E3; new games were announced, mostly involving death and explosions, existing ones got gorgeous new trailers, showing off fantastic gameplay and cinematics, and Nintendo unveiled a bloody unusual looking new console, one that has received rather conflicting first impressions across the board.

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Wii U Announced – Wiihoo?

Nintendo announced their new console at E3 earlier today, and we were there to witness the unveiling. Read our impressions below…

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