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Homefront: Thanks for playing our demo

Spoiler warning: Plot spoilers for Homefront. All four hours of it. Though I would love to expect a higher level of emotional engagement with my video games, when it comes to military-style first-person shooters, I don’t ask for much—probably because they almost always fail to deliver. You run through a bunch of corridors, shoot a bunch of dudes, pick up some new guns with one of seventeen different scopes, hit a slow-motion sequence, feel like a bad-ass. I’ve just distilled the essence of every modern Call of Duty game into…

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Windows Phone 7 launch games announced

In anticipation of the international fall launch of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft has announced the starting line up of games, clocking in at over 60 titles.  This includes some casual mobile classics like Uno and the always addictive Bejewelled, and mobile interpretations of console titles such as Guitar Hero 5, Halo: Waypoint, and Assassins Creeed.  For Star Wars fans there’ll be a couple of games developed by THQ – Cantina, which puts you in the role of a Tatooine bar owner, and Battle For Hoth, a tower defense game set…

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de Blob 2: Underground hitting the big three consoles

For someone who hasn’t played a ton of Wii games, I can definitely say that de Blob was my favourite.  In the original, you controlled Blob, who’s goal was to bounce around a city, and liberate the citizens from the evil INKT Corporation by painting the buildings in vibrant colours.  It has an interesting control scheme, and the gameplay is a blast.  Though not a runaway best seller (what non-Nintendo game IS on the Wii), it’s done well enough that THQ has announced there will be a sequel, called de…

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