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Dragon Age Nightmare Mode Strategy Guide: Mage Class

This post is a part of an ongoing feature here at Nightmare Mode to provide you with an expert’s strategy guide on playing Dragon Age. This time, we’ll be going over the mage class. In Dragon Age, you learn the

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Dragon Age Nightmare Mode Strategy Guide: Mage Class

This post is a part of an ongoing feature here at Nightmare Mode to provide you with an expert’s strategy guide on playing Dragon Age. This time, we’ll be going over the mage class. In Dragon Age, you learn the

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Grind For This Content

The (not so) recent stink on the internet has been reviewing massive multiplayer games. Rock Paper Shotgun’s covered it extensively, in part because one of their writers got in on the act, and embraced the most dangerous topic in video

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Grind For This Content

The (not so) recent stink on the internet has been reviewing massive multiplayer games. Rock Paper Shotgun’s covered it extensively, in part because one of their writers got in on the act, and embraced the most dangerous topic in video

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In Praise of Being Praised

It all began in the confessionary. Graham was telling us how he almost stopped playing videogames forever (I don’t think he would though) when we started debating about how to algebraically measure a game. It eventually came down to issues

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In Praise of Being Praised

It all began in the confessionary. Graham was telling us how he almost stopped playing videogames forever (I don’t think he would though) when we started debating about how to algebraically measure a game. It eventually came down to issues

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Redemption is a Misnomer

That’s right, I’m denouncing the critic’s (and many-a-player’s) darling. There is nothing Redemptive about Red Dead Redemption. Here’s why. As you probably know, RDR gives players control over John Marston, a man who is living during a time of utter

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Redemption is a Misnomer

That’s right, I’m denouncing the critic’s (and many-a-player’s) darling. There is nothing Redemptive about Red Dead Redemption. Here’s why. As you probably know, RDR gives players control over John Marston, a man who is living during a time of utter

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Forget About Saving The World, You're Dead, Kid

Wake up at 6, and, within seconds, I’ve already screamed at both my mom and my sister. No breakfast. Get to school two hours before it starts, maybe do homework I couldn’t do last night. Listen to people talk, in

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Forget About Saving The World, You're Dead, Kid

Wake up at 6, and, within seconds, I’ve already screamed at both my mom and my sister. No breakfast. Get to school two hours before it starts, maybe do homework I couldn’t do last night. Listen to people talk, in

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Gamer Confession: New IPs Saved Me From Abandoning Games Forever

I really did almost do it. About a year ago, around this time, I had given up. The games of yore, the new and exciting developments, from the mid 80s until sometime during the middle of the last gen…I began

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Gamer Confession: New IPs Saved Me From Abandoning Games Forever

I really did almost do it. About a year ago, around this time, I had given up. The games of yore, the new and exciting developments, from the mid 80s until sometime during the middle of the last gen…I began

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The Sunday Gaming Collective: Motherland

We have had new change in management directive. This video game, she is no substitute for the long, hard embrace of Motherland. You must embrace your be, be backbone of proletariat uprising against evil capitalist pigdogs. Motherland! Motherland! Motherland! However!

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The Sunday Gaming Collective: Motherland

We have had new change in management directive. This video game, she is no substitute for the long, hard embrace of Motherland. You must embrace your be, be backbone of proletariat uprising against evil capitalist pigdogs. Motherland! Motherland! Motherland! However!

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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Onslaught Mode Review

Now that Onslaught has dropped for us 360 owners, I finally had the chance to try the mode out for myself. Onslaught is a $10 four player co-op mode which sees individual squads running through old maps with mostly cosmetic,

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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Onslaught Mode Review

Now that Onslaught has dropped for us 360 owners, I finally had the chance to try the mode out for myself. Onslaught is a $10 four player co-op mode which sees individual squads running through old maps with mostly cosmetic,

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For Nostalgia's Sake: Metal Gear Solid

With the unveiling of the new Metal Gear Solid Rising comes the opportunity to reflect back on the perfection Hideo Kojima and the Konami folks achieved in 1999 with Metal Gear Solid. Even more opportune, is that I started running

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For Nostalgia's Sake: Metal Gear Solid

With the unveiling of the new Metal Gear Solid Rising comes the opportunity to reflect back on the perfection Hideo Kojima and the Konami folks achieved in 1999 with Metal Gear Solid. Even more opportune, is that I started running

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The Sunday Gaming Club: Daniel-San

So, a remake of seminal children’s movie The Karate Kid is a thing that exists now? And it doesn’t suck? And it stars Jaden Smith, who will soon have additional credits like “The Fresh Prince of West Philly” and “Other

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The Sunday Gaming Club: Daniel-San

So, a remake of seminal children’s movie The Karate Kid is a thing that exists now? And it doesn’t suck? And it stars Jaden Smith, who will soon have additional credits like “The Fresh Prince of West Philly” and “Other

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