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Titan Quest II Summons Update Is Now Live — Full Patch Notes
The Titan Quest II Summons Update is now live, adding summons to all five masteries, a new Talisman item type, and a full Epic overhaul. Full patch notes inside.
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Game Reviews
WWF WrestleMania 2000 Review (Retro WedNESday #2)
WrestleMania week calls for a look back at the best wrestling game ever made. WWF WrestleMania 2000 brought the AKI engine to the WWF roster and nothing in the genre has topped it since.
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SJW’s Attack THQ Nordic Over AMA
The mob wanted THQ Nordic burned to the ground for holding an AMA on 8chan. The Riot Retort breaks down the manufactured outrage and SJW Patrick Klepek's role in leading the charge.
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Game Reviews
Saints Row IV Review
My favorite gaming genre is third person shooter set in an open world. This generation has produced many of these types of games, and a lot of them have been really great. Riding horses and mowing down outlaws in Red Dead Redemption was awesome; skydiving and blowing stuff up in Just Cause 2 was great; visiting historically accurate settings like Rome and colonial America in the Assassin’s Creed franchise has been wonderful as well. Then there has been the Saints Row franchise, which has seen…
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WWE ’13 Review
Yuke's and THQ could a big step forward with the WWE license last year when they scrapped the RAW vs. Smackdown name and gutted the engine to give the series its first true overhaul in years. WWE '12 ended up being the best playing wrestling game of the generation thanks to the all the big improvements made. This year, Yuke's is back with WWE '13 and it's largely the same gameplay wise. That's not a bad thing. Annual titles get a lot of hate if they don't reinvent the wheel every year, but WWE…
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Game Reviews
Darksiders II Review
This review is for the PC version of Darksiders II, and as such I'm going to spend the first portion of this review talking about the problems I've had with the PC version. Darksiders II was very obviously designed with a controller in mind; it's not at all keyboard and mouse friendly. I don't do a ton of PC gaming, especially new games, so I don't have a gamepad or a 360 controller to plug in, and thus I've experienced a number of frustrating things while playing Darksiders II. My biggest…
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Game Reviews
UFC Undisputed 3 Review
Good evening all and welcome back to the eighth edition of The Backlog. Tonight we will look into THQ and Yuke's third offering of mixed martial arts excellence, UFC Undisputed 3. There were great strides made from the first offering to the second in this series, and this year's edition was also noticeably improved. One would usually hope and expect that a sports franchise would improve from year to year, but as many gamers have noticed, several franchises seem have either hit plateaus on what…
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Game Reviews
WWE ’12 Review
The past few years have been rough for fans of wrestling games. On one hand, the presentation of the annual WWE simulation series Smackdown vs. RAW continued to evolve and become more and more like its real life counterpart. On the other hand, the actually gameplay itself was boring and marred by poor AI, and even online play against real human opponents couldn’t make up for it because the online was as laggy and horribly as you could find. What we always ended up with was a wrestling game that…
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Game Reviews
WWE All Stars Review
THQ's arcade-style WWE All Stars is the best wrestling game since WWF No Mercy, with a loaded roster, tight controls, and online play that actually works.
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