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I slogged my way through Prince of Persia. I wanted so badly to love this game. I got to the end, and all I was hoping for was some epic closing movie—something to redeem all of its fail moments. An ending so moving, so powerful, so touching that it would somehow wash away the camera […] Add comment
Steam continues to make inroads to being the premiere platform for PC game distribution by signing on one major publisher after another. Today Valve announced that SquareEnix, a major console RPG publisher, will be distributing their epic saga “The Last Remnant” to PC users via Steam on April 9. The Last Remnant is a fairly […] Add comment
First up, a classic style top-down RPG for the PC. Aldorlea Tales: 3 Stars of Destiny pits a party of children against the ultimate evil. They are the stars of destiny, and must unite to defeat the evil god, but he cannot act in the mortal realm, and must only attack them indirectly. Features include […] Add comment
Yesterday, the Team Fortress 2 team announced the anticipated Force-A-Nature double-barreled shotgun will be the third item released in the upcoming Scout update. It’s powerful, sends enemies (an possibly you) flying through the air, and reloads very slowly. What wasn’t anticipated Monday was the poll included in the update. Valve is letting players decide what […] Add comment
For the last few weeks three of us (namely NiGHTS, TiberiusLazarus, and myself) have been having a good old time goofing off in Tarren Mill in Hillsbrad. We all three act like hawkers trying to sell Delicious Snapvine Watermelons for whatever we can get for them. I’ve gotten anywhere from 1 to 5gp for a […] Add comment
I have to admit that this is a direction I could not have predicted. Nostalgia gaming is in high gear lately. Wii Virtual Console has brought back tons of classic games, Sega has released a huge compilation of Genesis games for PS3, and now Nintendo has begun delving into classic 8-bit computer gaming by bringing […] Add comment
Icrontic Gaming here with another way to blow idle hours away. Gemcraft is another high quality casual Flash game from Candystand. It’s another entry in the addictive tower defense genre, with a lot of cool features. You build custom gems that you place in towers. You can combine gems to get increased stats, and buy […] Add comment
A review of Dystopia, the cyberpunk-themed mod for Half-Life 2 from the mouth of a known cybersubstance abuser. Add comment
Update number three was announced today, bringing news of the second of the Scout’s new weapons to rabid TF2 fans everywhere. Much like the Heavy’s “Sandvich”, the “BONK” Energy Drink is a consumable. After you use it, you are double fast—for a few moments. After the sugar rush wears off, you are lethargic and vulnerable […] Add comment
From Shrapnel games, known for their realistic tactical simulators, comes the PC release Battle Group Commander: Episode One. This time the players battle former Soviet forces across the Salisbury Plain Training Area. The game boasts hyper-realism, and intuitive micro-management controls for those who are into that sort of thing. The PSN release NOBY NOBY BOY, […] Add comment
BONK! We’ll be updating you throughout the week as the TF2 Scout Updates are announced. The first announcement is a new melee weapon—The Sandman. This is a bat which fires a ball. The ball stuns enemies; even enemies that are ubercharged… After they are stunned you can run up and smack ’em around, but while […] Add comment
The emulator craze lives on. The name is slightly misleading, as the game collection contains far more than Sonic games, but Sega has gone and put almost 50 Sega-published Genesis titles on one disc, and made it available for PS3 and Xbox 360. All games can be played in either 16:9 or 4:3 and contain […] Add comment
What would a zombie game be without a shotgun? How could you mow down hordes of mindless creatures without a serious area-denial weapon? In FPS games, there is nothing quite like the satisfaction gained from blasting a tightly packed group of enemies with a shotgun. Left 4 Dead provides plenty of opportunities to experience that […] Add comment
If you’ve been reading our guides, you probably are at least slightly interested in playing Left 4 Dead with the Icrontic community. Valve is offering half off on this great game right now. Get it! Add comment
The Purchase Brothers are some amazing filmographers who recently set to work creating a Half Life-based fan video, Escape From City 17, made with nothing but their own hard work and about $500. Do yourself a favor and watch the HD version. Add comment
Today EA Games announced a new game based on the GI Joe franchise. With an upcoming movie based on the property, the game is sure to be a movie tie-in. We can only hope that it is not one of the bad movie tie-ins. There are plenty. Everytime something is announced that taps into a […] Add comment
Left 4 Dead is not like most other FPS games. You don’t have a huge glut of weapons to choose from; there is no “ultimate big gun” to get at the end. Part of the challenge is the limited selection of guns. Perhaps the most underappreciated of them is the hunting rifle which, as I […] Add comment
Valve does it again—free content that significantly expands an existing game. Where other developers are charging us $5.00 for a new texture or model, Valve gives us an entirely new game mode for nothing. The Survival Pack is an update which includes the all new Survival Mode as well as two complete campaigns for Versus […] Add comment
Out on WiiWare this week is the interesting Survival Horror Puzzle game, LIT. In this WiiMote-centric game, the player takes on the role of high school student Jake as he searches the halls of his haunted school for his lost girlfriend. Be prepared for lots of motions controls in this one. A cross-platform release, Ben […] Add comment
Crytek, the techsmiths known for their groundbreaking graphical marvel Crysis, announced Thursday that it had acquired Free Radical Design Limited. Free Radical, located in Nottingham (United Kingdom) will be soon integrated into Crytek’s network of studios. Free Radical is no stranger to the FPS gaming genre as it has Timesplitters 1, 2, and Future Perfect as […] Add comment
Any given night on a TF2 server, one often hears the lament “DAMMIT! ANOTHER lucky crit!” It seemed like soldiers in particular were constantly getting critical hits (read: one shot kills) on their opponents. The end effect was a lot of bitching and moaning about overpowered soldiers, too many crits, and even cries of “HAXX!” […] Add comment
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