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Preview: Inversion

There’s something to be said for games that know what they are. Inversion completely lacks intent to be more than the videogame equivalent of a B-Movie. It will win no awards for plot, dialogue or originality, but it plays well enough to be entirely inoffensive and doesn’t appear an entirely terrible way to spend a little mindless time.

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Preview: Assassin’s Creed III

Tim was lucky enough to recently attend an early presentation of Assassin’s Creed III. In this preview, he gives us the low-down on the setting, characters and all new game-engine!

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Namco Bandai Preview Day

Last week a few of the BRB team were lucky enough to be invited to Namco Bandi’s offices in Hammersmith. I met up with Lucy and promptly got her hopelessly lost, as is our tradition. Our noble leader, Tim, went straight there and…

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Preview: End of Nations (PC)

You remember when Command and Conquer was at its peak? Before it all got a bit too silly? Sure you do. Hold on to that magic, bring it bang up to date, re-arm it as an MMO and that is how End of Nations is gearing up.

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Preview: Metal Gear Solid 3D (3DS)

With a new instalment of the Metal Gear Solid series – in the form of Revengenanance (or whatever the heck they’ve called it) – looking both far off and potentially disappointing, many of us will be depending on remakes to get our gravelly-voiced kicks.

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Mass Effect 3 Primer: Companions

Mass Effect 3 is bearing down on us, and if you’re like me, the anticipation is positively Christmas Eve-like. Recently I needed to begin a new game in Mass Effect 2 due to using a $5 USB thumbdrive to protect my hundreds of hours worth of Xbox 360 game saves.

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Preview: Syndicate

Do yourself a favour: If you’d usually set games to normal difficultly so you can rush through, play Syndicate’s co-op on Hard instead…

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Preview: MLB 12: The Show

  There aren’t many good sports games these days. Most aren’t bad, but rarely do we see one that puts us in awe. The Madden franchise hasn’t made any significant improvements to the game in nearly a decade, and the 2k games (for all sports) feel like you’re playing at an arcade in the 1990s. [...]

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