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Dead Rising 2: Case Zero Review

If there’s one thing I dislike the most about this generation of gaming, it’s the constant micro-transactions which have become the norm for the genre. When done right, it’s a great way to extend the life of a game. Fallout 3 and Burnout Paradise are prime examples: a decent amount of new game content with a fair price tag. However, there have been many examples of downloadable content done wrong this generation -- either...

Why Scott Pilgrim Works for Gamers

Video games based on movies rarely turn out well -- and vice versa. The two contain elements respective to their field of entertainment -- elements which usually don’t gel well out of their comfort zone. Dialog common in most movies makes for a poor or uneven experience in a game, and nonstop action sequences common in games make for an overblown viewing experience. Movie and games are two separate entertainment experiences never meant to...

Spelunky Review

As well as spiders, bats, and skeletons, oh my! You'll hate them even more when you play Spelunky, an indie game made for Windows created by Derek Yu. Spelunky is freeware but don't let that lull you into thinking that the game has any lack of depth - it's simply full of it. Spelunky is possibly the best indie game I have ever played, and it's free. You play a spelunker, named, interestingly, Spulenky (his real name isn't given). Your quest is...

Fighters Uncaged Preview

The current showcase of games with the upcoming Xbox 360 Kinect are less than appealing. Mainly, the games aren't really considered the typical standard of what one would play for hours at a time, or "hardcore" as many put it. While the Kinect seems to be viable in translating many different movements you perform to in-game actions, one thing I have noticed it lacks in nearly all its games is moving your character's feet. The ability to actually...

Realtime Worlds in Trouble

Dundee-based games company Realtime Worlds, most notable for Xbox 360 game Crackdown and recent PC game All-Points Bulletin, shocked the world by announcing that it was going into Administration this Monday, 16th August 2010, following the 60 redundancies made by the company the week before. It comes after disappointingly "lacklustre" sales of it's recent Microsoft Windows PC game, All-Points Bulletin. OMGN's own Jenner Cauton gave the game a...

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Review

It’s difficult to honestly review a game like Starcraft 2. On the one hand, Blizzard Entertainment has a long history of really solid game design, peaking with (of course) Starcraft, and it would be a disservice to myself as a journalist and you as readers to act as though this were an opportunity to get my licks in simply for kicks. On the other hand, the desire to stir the ant pile with a stick and enrage the Blizzard fanboys is tempting...

Steam: Borderlands Midweek Sale

If you haven't gotten the chance to experience one of the best action RPG shooters yet, now's your chance.  This week only Steam will be selling Borderlands as well as all of it's DLC at 66% off.  The base game will be $10.19, with the whole package coming to $20.36.  Don't miss out.

Grand Prix Racing Online Interview

The following is an exclusive OMGN interview with Vladimir Alexandrov of Grand Prix Online at http://www.gpro.se OMGN: Let's start with a self-introduction of yourself, the person behind the Game Master. Vladimir Alexandrov:  Hello, my name is Vladimir Alexandrov from Bulgaria. I am the president and one of the administrators / developers of the game Grand Prix Racing Online (GPRO). OMGN: Were you a race car driver before Grand Prix...

Top Shot Elite Peripheral Preview

I love my mouse. No, seriously, I really do. I give it birthday presents on the day that I bought it. When the computer turns off, I unplug it and put it inside a locked safe behind three separate security doors you have to pass through after a retinal scan... after a urine test. OK, if you couldn't tell by now, when it comes to FPS games, I have to say hands down to the mouse. It's precise, accurate and little to no compensation errors when...

Thoughts on Fanboys

If you've been a gamer for long, and especially if you've been gaming online for even the shortest period of time, you're likely acquainted with fanboys. Fanboys pop up everywhere in life, and the whole concept has been around a long time, too. Fanboys haven't always been called fanboys, but that is the term that we're familiar with today. A fanboy is someone with a pretty strong attachment and liking to something, usually a sporting team or...

Joystiq F*cks One Up

As everybody knows by now, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty was released to the masses on July 27 at midnight. Since then, there has been a feeding frenzy of players loading up the single player campaign, challenges, tutorials and of course, the incredible multiplayer feature. After waiting 12 years since the original, Joystiq could only wait 1 1/2 more days to review... The SC2 multiplayer beta has been out for months. Blizzard has been fine...

Time of Defiance Shutting Down

Time of Defiance, a game that was one of OMGN's first reviews on our archived website, is shutting its doors. The game will be taken offline at the end of this month to make room for technological upgrades for Nice Technology Ltd. The company says these upgrades aren't compatible with Time of Defiance and that the time and effort required to make Time of Defiance compatible is unreasonable. The upgrades in question are for the company's newest...

OMGN Forum Launched

The old OMGN had a forum installed for our users to, well, use. The old Forum was actually the basis for membership on the site. We simply tacked on an internal hook to the Forum's user management system to enable extended user functionality across the entire website. Obviously we haven't had a similar Forum since our relaunch over a month ago. We felt it was in our best interest to have a custom forum for the new OMGN for a variety of...

Beat Hazard Review

Independent companies often have smaller budgets, which means cheaper, lower quality games, but of course that depends on how you see it.  A trend I noticed is that, usually, it's these type of games where you won't find gameplay of its kind anywhere else. Preety colorrrs. Beat Hazard, made by Cold Beam Games, is an arcade twin shooter.  You've probably played these games before.  Robotron, Geometry Wars, Zombie Apocalypse, etc....

All Points Bulletin Review

Ever since Grand Theft Auto 3 was released, the gaming industry exploded into a whole new industry of open world games. It also brought itself along a lot of unwanted controversy, but that's another story. Enter All Point's Bulletin, a game that's title at first sounded really odd to me, (until I actually looked up the term, sorry I don't know local police vocabulary), and is made by RealTime Studios, also makers of Crackdown. APB takes the open...