We’ve been waiting a very long time for Alan Wake. Heralded as a corner stone of Microsoft’s original IP, Alan Wake has appeared and reappeared on the radar of gamers so many times that most didn’t believe when a firm release date was set.

Well rest your weary heads because Alan Wake has been released to the public and we can all finally experience was Remedy studios have been crafting all these years. It’s not hard to understand that the makers of Max Payne had a lot of freedom and time to create this game, but did they deliver? Is Alan Wake’s glory written in the stars, or is it scribbled among the failures of history?

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The biggest RTS in the making, Starcraft II : Wings Of Liberty, will touch down on PC’s this July 27th, and we were lucky enough to get some playtime in the beta.

Have you jumped in yet?  Can you still Zerg rush?  How is Battle.Net 2.o? Are there any new features, or is this just a prettier same old ball of Zerg wax?  We’ll try to answer all your questions in our hands-on review of the Starcraft II Beta.

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Summer is almost here.  Tanning on the beach, soft sand, foamy ocean waves….well, unless you are on the Gulf Coast.  Pool parties, Bar-B-Q’s, catching fireflies and roasting marshmallows.  Excited?  Me neither, all that stuff makes me shudder–jellyfish stings, sunburn, sand in crevices, vacuuming the pool, chlorine stinging your eyes, who needs it?

Thank goodness we can fire up our PC’s, crank up the AC and frag away with this summer’s gaming goodness!

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Developers are pushing the limits of storytelling, interactivity and design. Why aren't they getting any respect?

Video games have come a very long way since the 1980s, when we were all still blowing into our Super Mario Brothers cartridges and admiring the graphics in Metroid. Over the past three decades, they've gone from a geeky and often-ridiculed kid-centric pastime to a cultural juggernaut with a massive adult consumer base. The average gamer is now 30, and the gender ratio is approaching equilibrium (the male-female ratio is roughly 60-40). Video games are now the most consumed medium ever, with annual sales topping $20 billion.

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Released along-side its console, the original Red Steel was promoted as the sword-sim you've always dreamed of. The game seemingly failed to create this "sword-sim."

The outdated visuals, clunky controls, sub-par combat, and the disappointing sword play all contributed to this. Over three years after the Wii's release comes Red Steel 2, with the newly released Wii MotionPlus. Many hoped it accomplished what the first did not, the question is, did it?

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