Category: Gaming

Forget Aliens: Colonial Marines, there is only one true Aliens video game… Total Conversion

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Lots of fury over this review of the long-awaited ‘Aliens: Colonial Marines’ as the majority of reviews come in at the 40% mark, with a few outliers in the mainstream gaming press giving the title around 90% (and publications like EGM Now hosting an advert for the game ‘Aliens: Colonial Marines’ behind a glowing review of ‘Aliens: Colonial Marines’), but once again I come back to a simple rule of thumb about any game developed around the ‘Aliens’ franchise. There is no finer first person gaming experience than Aliens:TC, the total conversion Doom level.

Never Gonna Give [Audiosurf Tilt on the Zune HD] Up

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There’s a lot to like about Microsoft’s last portable media player, the Zune HD. They got the hardware right, they got the PC connectivity and syncing right, they got podcast support right, and it’s still the player I reach for when going on a long trip and I want to be one hundred percent sure that I’ll have music from my door in Edinburgh to the hotel room in Austin. Where they missed was in application support. The Zune HD could run XNA games, but they never made the jump to Windows Phone along with the other tools. Which means

Now we have Carcassonne on Xbox Live, can we get Catan?

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My review of Carcassonne is up on All About Windows Phone: Sometimes there comes along a smartphone game that simply enchants me when I first run it, and it never lets go. There are a lot of games that can do that in the first ten minutes of play, but for a title to be really special it needs to retain that feeling in the following hours and days. Carcassonne is one such title. Its availability on Xbox Live has been promised since the start of the year, and now it’s here, I’ve let out a little cheer.