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Episode 1, the first of 3 planned episodic continuations of HL2, has been released. The game consists of roughly 5-7 hours of gameplay. You pick up the story immediately after the events of Half-Life 2, and your focus will be getting out of City 17 alive. You'll fight all the same baddies that...

Now that Sam 2 is out the door and Croteam has recovered from the long development, we asked our friend Goran Zoricic of Croteam some questions about what they thought about Sam 2, and in doing so uncovered some nice hints about their next project. GM: Hi Goran, nice to talk to you again. Can...

I first downloaded this demo, and forgot about it entirely. It is an extremely large download for a demo of a game at around 650MB. However, I stumbled across it when saving another download and decided to fire it up. I'm VERY glad I did so. Quite simply, if this demo is anything like...

After years in the making, the true sequel to the Serious Sam franchise has been released. Developed once again by Croteam, the same producers of Serious Sam: First Encounter and Second Encounter, Croteam looks to capture the same magic it did the first time when the genre was thrilled to see an...

Panda’s. That’s right, you heard me, panda’s. See, I reckon panda’s are cool. They can be cute, but also a visceral killing machine if angered. Conflict Desert Storm II doesn’t really have enough panda’s for my taste. Sure, it has some goats, but not really any panda’s. And when you think about it,...

“Henshin a go-go baby!” Wow, that is all it took. A corny little phrase, a crazy little man named Joe in a Japanese “Henshin” suit, and cell shaded graphics…..and I was hooked. Hopefully with this review I can instill the enthusiasm I have with this game, in you, the reader. I will try not to...

INTRODUCTION "Golf for the people". That's how the latest installment of the Hot Shots franchise bills itself. This is not your traditional golf sim ala Tiger Woods PGA Tour. Instead, Hot Shots has always taken pride in their cartoony characters, simplified controls, role-playing elements, and...

INTRODUCTION Half-Life 2 is the highly anticipated successor to Half-Life, published in 1998, one of the most successful games ever. Half-Life 2 was created by Valve and published and distributed by Vivendi Universal Games Inc. It has been in development for the past six years. Half-Life 2 was...

Imagine what the human race was like 40,000 years ago. No civilizations, not even any recorded history, existed then. According to fossils, human beings were “Homo sapiens sapiens”, and were just starting to migrate into Europe. The technology of that time period was extremely primitive, composing...

Out of all the mythical monsters and beasts, there is one that stands out above all others. This creature is large enough to cast shadows over entire villages, strong enough to crush a fully-grown tree’s trunk, and fast enough to catch an arrow in mid-flight. Its claws are sharp enough to pierce...

You are Jack Carver, a charter boat captain, taking a female report, Val Cortez, to investigate some islands in the tropics. She goes off for a closer look on a wave rider. You remain behind. Someone blows up your boat with a rocket launcher. You are able to swim to shore, where there are weird...

Painkiller is a new game developed by People can Fly and published by Dreamcatcher. It is refreshing to see the creativity coming out of areas that are not America and Japan. First you have Serious Sam, produced by a Croatian group, then Will Rock, partially developed by a Russian group,...

INTRODUCTION Well, it is finally here. Anxiously awaited. Four years of development and two years overdue. Is it worth it? Lets see... In the early era of pc games, the games were pretty much limited to side scrollers of various types. id appeared on the scene with a small group of...

Battle out of Hell (BooH) is the first Painkiller expansion pack out from Polish developer People Can Fly and distributor DreamCatcher. Painkiller was released earlier this year with great expectations from the gaming community, both for the single player game and also for the multiplayer game...

Where does fantasy end and reality begin? From hundreds of years ago starting with Plato’s Cave to the present day with films like The Matrix, mankind has been trying to find out not only what reality is, but whether or not our daily lives fit its definition. For some, reality is everyday...

It seems like Croteam is getting knocked really hard for the latest demo release. A lot of the supporters were left feeling that they were abandoned via the current version. The demo also demonstrates lots of shortcomings of the upcoming game. All of this is wrong. The focus of a company...

Death Jr. was one of the very first PSP games announced when the system was first unveiled. When the details for the game were first being announced, it looked to be poised as one of the first 3D action games on a handheld platform. Konami is looking to make Death Jr. (developed by Backbone...

Introduction Serious Sam fans have waited a long time from the release of Sam SE for the Sam 2 demo, 1,324 days to be exact. The originals brought intense, fun, co-op action to the FPS genre at a time when the sector was moving towards more realistic FPS games. It spawned a large cult following...