It's good to see a little variety thrown in to the established formulas in order to keep things smelling fresh. CodeBrush Games takes a step in that direction by shaking things up with ArcheBlade. ArcheBlade has all the feel of a MOBA with the touch of a fighting game. The genre is already dominated by the titans like Dota 2, and ArcheBlade needs to be quite impressive to draw in a reliable follow...
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There have been a number of excellent crafting and adventure type games that absolutely devoured my time when I played them. Villagers and Heroes is not one of those games. I can't even estimate the number of hours I've spent mining ore in Runescape - keep in mind that is also a free game. Or how many I've spent grinding in World of Warcraft. However, I can definitively say I will not be going bac...
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Ghost Recon Phantoms Community Page I won't lie to you. I'm a long time Ghost Recon fan boy. When I saw Phantoms release on Steam it hit me like a ton of bricks. Immediately after I caught my breath I installed the game, struggled to remember my Uplay account, and promptly joined my first match. Ubisoft has an extensive list of titles that absolutely devour my time. Phantoms has been no exception....
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Warframe Community Page Do games need a story to be fun? You might say co-op based online gaming is the cat's pajamas. If cats wore pajamas that is. Or if these games didn't sacrifice so much depth in order to fit cats with human garments. The important thing is that there is a right way to do co-operative online gaming. Warframe may have taken a bit of a wrong turn on its way there. Digital Extre...
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How often do you play a new first person shooter and not weep in response to boring and used up mechanics? Tactical Intervention, designed by Counter Strike co-creator Minh Le, makes what appears to be an effort to liven up the world of tactical shooters. It seems to target those fans of the series. While it isn't a direct part of the CS series, it does take much of its influence from those games...
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The galaxy can at times be an overwhelming and dangerous place. Though it isn't quite as bad with a fleet of armed space ships at your command. Master of Orion, a 4X game released in 1993, is the inspiration that went into the development of FreeOrion. The team behind FreeOrion developed and maintains the project with the goal of creating a complex universe while retaining their central design phi...
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Loadout is one of the best examples of gun customization in any game, period. The amount of combinations is endless and is, in my opinion one of the games main selling points. Not many games offer such a wide array of choice and customization as Loadout. There are so many different parts you can put on the weapons and so many different ways you can style the weapons and they all have a substantial...
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With Hearthstone, Blizzard Entertainment merges the lore of the Warcraft universe to create a fun, fast-paced, strategy card game. The game shares an obvious similarity to the rest of Blizzard’s collection in the sense that is also extremely addicting. The accessibility of this game is the result of the simplified design, especially when compared to the overwhelming development of Magic the Gather...
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DOTA 2 Community Page For those who aren’t aware, DOTA was originally a mod for Starcraft but gained most popularity as a mod for Warcraft 3. So Valve swooped in and offered the makers of DOTA a shot at the big time. The game that came out of this is of course the ever creatively named DOTA 2. The DOTA series is widely credited with the creation of the very popular MOBA genre of gaming and the gam...
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Ubisoft’s free-to-play dungeon crawler, The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot, takes an interesting approach to the genre as it furthers regular hack and slash gameplay with tower defence elements. This game features a player developed world, where a hero is used to raid castles while defences can be researched and advanced. The developers shed some humour on the genre through the promotion of a cartoo...
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