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REVIEW: Unravel

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To bring a video game’s protagonist to life and have us identify with them through narration, acting, and situations they’re in, is not easy. To bring a piece of wool string to life – a shaped cat-like ball of yarn, and make us identify with it is a rare gift. From the very beginning, Unravel will ‘unfold’ before your eyes and tug on your heartstrings, the game’s obviously a labor of love from the game’s creators, so warmly transferred with precise inspiration. There is no doubt that this isn’t the kind of game you come across often. True, it is a platformer with mechanics based on the laws of physics and, at first and second glance, seems like a deja vu. But after a few…

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REVIEW: Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: Russia

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This might not be a normal review. Correction, this certainly won’t be a normal review. Unfortunately, we’re in a situation where we have to review the same game twice in two months. If you’ve read our previous issue, or more precisely our review of AC Chronicles India, then you’ll know in advance what to expect here. Once more, Ubisoft has taken a shot and missed, and at this point, that’s turning into an ugly habit. Three different, yet fundamentally the same games in 12 months is inexcusable in itself. The fans of one of the most promising series of the last decade are left at the mercy of a movie which will release later this year. And if that too turns out to be a…

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REVIEW: Firewatch

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Before I sat down to play Firewatch, I have watched more than enough trailers for this game, and all of them intrigued me to try it out. Besides that, the very beginning of the game had caught me by surprise in a completely positive way, since I really didn’t expect such an intro to the story. The intro itself was quite enough for me to rate this game a 10 (even if it didn’t have much to do with the video game as it did with an animated movie), but we can’t allow ourselves to be swayed by emotions and I decided to sleep on it. We take on the role of Henry, a man in late thirties, who needs to get away from life…

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REVIEW: The Witness

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Oh, those puzzle games… You know, one can state themselves to be a fan of puzzle games, have dozens of fully explored titles with every secret unlocked, an open mind towards new solutions and approach to puzzle solving, and yet remain baffled after half an hour spent playing The Witness. The creator of the cult game Braid, Jonathan Blow, made a great effort to exceed all expectations from anyone who anticipated his next creation. And he succeeded. Even if it’s a puzzle game at its core, The Witness is so much more. The first thing you’re bound to notice after starting The Witness is the simplicity of puzzles before you. Almost all puzzles in the game follow the same pattern – you draw out a…

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REVIEW: Far Cry Primal

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Let’s go back through time, say 12 thousand years ago, when mammoths roamed our planet, and our ancestor’s every day was a fight for survival. Sounds like a cool premise for a first-person survival game? Well, Ubisoft beat you to it, because Far Cry Primal is exactly that – a game set in the Mesolithic period of Earth’s history where three human tribes wage war in an already inhospitable environment. You take on the role of Takar, a member of the Wenja tribe, and an experienced mammoth hunter. During one such hunt, your group is assailed by a giant saber-toothed tiger and you barely escape with your life after falling off a cliff. While wandering through the Oros valley, Takar finds out that the other…

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REVIEW: Steel Series Siberia 200

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Steelseries Siberia has generally been considered to be one of the most popular gaming headsets for a number of years now and recently they’ve received an update. We were already familiar with the Siberia V3 and were quite pleased with the headset, but we had a small remark that they were more expensive than the V2 which they were replacing. Now with the 200 model – a sort of a rebranded V3 – we go back to a bit more affordable pricing while keeping almost all of the most important characteristics.   What is the same? Siberia 200 visually resembles the V3, and even more so the V2, which is by no means a bad thing, because those were the headphones that became gaming legends.…

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REVIEW: Street Fighter V

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How do you do, Ken? Many years before gaming centers, multi-million dollar tournaments and even the term eSports, we have competed on arcade machines at their namesake Arcade rooms. There was a king among all of those machines, Street Fighter 2, a game used to settle many a feud, a game which ate up all of our lunch money. Who would have thought that it’s been more than two decades since then? Times have changed, games have come and gone, but Street Fighter always somehow endured through many revisions and expansions, until finally we have before us a brand new SF with the number 5 In its title. The new Street Fighter is based on the same principles from the last three decades of franchise’s…

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Telltale soon to release The Walking Dead: Michonne

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We have to disappoint you from the onset – this isn’t the 3rd season of their episodic TWD series, but its first spin-off. But still in that distinct TellTale style. The Walking Dead: Michonne will be a three-episode mini-series based on the comic book series, as was the case with Seasons 1 and 2. Its timeframe fits between episodes 126 and 139 and follows the story of Michonne who in the comic books mysteriously disappeared at that time. The first episode named “In too deep” shows the titular heroine on the ship “The Companion”. Of course, something goes awry when the ship receives a distress signal from the Monroe colony. This game series starts on February 23. and will continue in March with the episode…

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Quantum Break is coming to PC as well

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It seems that Microsoft’s announcement of greater support to PC gaming is finally becoming a reality. Quantum Break, one of the great Xbox One exclusives, won’t be so exclusive any more – it will get a PC release as well. The rumors about a PC version of this action adventure from studio Remedy started circulating in late January, when a Brazilian rating agency added this game to it’s list. The rumors were just confirmed by Microsoft when they announced that all pre-orders of the Xbox release will gain access code for the PC version too. Also, by digitally pre-ordering they will receive studio Remedy’s previous game – Alan Wake, along with all of its DLCs, although this other bonus is for Xbox only. So far…

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Hardware requirements for the new Hitman game were revealed

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The decision for Hitman to become an episodic game didn’t fare well with the gaming community, but despite that IO Interactive and Square Enix remained adamant about their decision to divide the game into a series of episodes which we’ll get to play over the year. The first among them, Intro Pack, as it’s called, gets released in March and can already be bought for 13€, and will contain the prologue and a mission in Paris. Successive episodes will cost 10€ each, while the package containing the whole game will have the regular price of 50€. The studio has just revealed the hardware requirements of the game. The minimum requirements were as expected, while the recommended are surprisingly modest for a game released in 2016.…

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