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Ok, so another year, another Naruto game by the Cyber Connect 2 guys. Yes, while drowning in a sea of unplayed games, I have made time to log in about 30 hours into Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations. So has franchise fatigue finally hit home on my love for Naruto games? Hardly.

It's that time again!

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Following my previous review of Dear Esther, I continue to recklessly invest money into artsy, abstract games in hopes of having my socks knocked off in amazement. I'm starting to realize I should stop doing this and accept that these games aren't for me.

Journey: A rad 2 the maxx sandboarding adventure!

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We haven't done a review for a while since we've been hung up on games of yesteryear like Battlefield 3, Saints Row: The Third, and Amnesia: The Dark Descent. After seeing the scrolling ads over and over again on Steam, I decided to take a risk with indie title Dear Esther. It was a risk that yielded very little reward.

Dear Esther... (*farts into microphone*)

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Good God, the hits just don't stop coming. I had absolutely, positively NO intention of playing Saints Row The Third. I don't like sandbox games, and I definitely don't have time for one right now with a record high FOUR games sitting unopened and un-played. I was about to launch into MW3 or Ace Combat or just replay Batman or Uncharted, when out of the blue a friend decided he needed to buy Saints Row immediately. I'd overheard a lot of talk of the insanity of the game: the outrageousness, the bombast, the full frontal nudity. My interest was piqued, and as luck would have it, my philanthropic friend decided to let me borrow the game a day after he bought it. So here I sit, after beating Saints Row The Third with 17 hours invested, telling you all: DON'T MISS OUT.

You can keep your brooding Eastern European protagonist GTA, I'll take the V-TOL.

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Well, "the most anticipated game in history" is here and once again shattered all sales records for the entertainment industry. It also broke the record for most rabid, vocal haters in the history of gaming. So who's side does Abortion Fist take? Read on for his unbiased, 100% fair, and genuine review.

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Spoiler alert: This review may be biased. I can't in good faith pretend like I am going to judge this game solely on its quantifiable aspects in a cool and reasonable fashion. IT'S FUCKING BATTLEFIELD 3!!! That means a great deal to me, as I still consider BF2 one of my all time top 10 (maybe even 5) games. I've waited a LONG time for a Battlefield sequel, * and the anticipation has been unrealistically sky high. It's been a bumpy road leading to this review, (from 2142 to BFBC2) but my blinding love of the TRUE Battlefield games has kept me ever vigilant and positive that Battlefield 3 would be the second coming of Christ. Now, here it is! Yet, with great power comes great don't break MURDERNATOR's heart or he will ruthlessly dump on you in his blog and convince his adoring public to never play you again. So let's see if BF3 can live up to my self-induced hype.

*To make this easier when I reference other Battlefield games in this review, know that I am NOT talking about any of the Bad Company games.

Not sure what the glowing stuff is on all the BF3 art... Looks like a Tinactin ad.

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Uncharted 3 is finally here, and it's got me doing a lot of thinking - not simply about it, but about video games in general, and in fact a lot of stuff on top of that. If you take a look at Not Our Day Job with any regularity, you can probably name some of our favorite franchises off the top of your head - we tend to be pretty vocal and pretty regular with our endorsements of content that we feel is actually worth your time. Uncharted has long been a hometown hero for all three of us on the staff list, and I know that I'm not the only one that's actually more than a little surprised by the latest entry. Is it an incredible game? Absolutely. Is it a perfect game? By no means. Is it worth the time of virtually anyone with the inclination to play it? Totally. Is it a must-play title that will stand the test of time? That remains to be seen, dear reader.

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I really don't know how else to start this article than to say games just don't get much more perfect than this. When I think of the PS3/360 generation, I define it with a handful of stellar games: Fallout 3, Call of Duty 4, Uncharted 2, Red Dead Redemption, and now Arkham City.

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I couldn't finish RAGE. I had high hopes for it even when it was a mere sparkle in John Carmack's eye. It was one of my first must-get titles of the autumn gaming season. I eagerly preloaded starting at midnight on its Tuesday debut (a good thing, too, since 7 hours later, it was only 52% installed...) I jumped in with gusto and relished the lack of drastic graphical problems that so plagued ATI users (I use nVidia). Everything was there that was promised - guns, a post-apocalyptic wasteland, quests, dune buggy drivin', crafting, more guns, mutants, and more.

And yet...

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I like my Gears like I like my poops: Long, Hard, Explosive, Corny and best enjoyed with 3 other friends. Wait maybe that's a bad analogy. Let me try again. Gears of War 3 is like awesome. Let it be known I bought a 360 for Gears of War, in fact when I logged on (thanks to a free one month Live card I've been saving) the last game I'd played was Gears 2, 600,000 years ago. So with that out of the way, know that if you don't like Gears of War, part three is not going to change your mind. Here's why.

There's a love triangle going on here, but it's not between who you may think...

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After years of hype from the slick trailers, the TV ads, and people blabbering on about how the original Deus Ex is one of the greatest games of all time, I finally played Human Revolution. I can attest that this is a great game well worth the price of admission. I'm just not sure that's all I hoped for.

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The Warhammer franchise, despite its long history of success in the world of tabletop gaming, has had a relatively lukewarm chronicle of video game releases. Despite many attempts to feature either the original gothic-fantasy setting (most notably 2008's Warhammer Online MMO) or the grimdark future-fantasy world of Warhammer 40K (as it's often abbreviated, standing for the "40,000," as in the number of years in the future the setting is meant to be staged in,) many games have have been well-received by fans but lacked popular support by the gaming public ... while others were simply downright awful. Relic Entertainment proved that they have the chops to make 40K titles, as proven with their two Dawn of War games - but wait, weren't those RTSes? And now they're making a third person shooter that emphasizes a balance between great shooting AND great melee combat? And it's available for home consoles? Really, guys? From the moment the game was announced to the day I put the disc into my console, I kinda figured someone was trying to fool me.

It wouldn't be the first time I've been fooled by Games Workshop.

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El Shaddai is not a game that I expect a lot of people will play. That's a shame. I had heard nothing about it. In fact the only reason it even blipped on my radar was that one lunch Almasy downloaded the demo, and we were intrigued and impressed by the visuals and the gameplay was solid. I decided to try it out using Gamefly; I'm glad I did.

What happened next? Lemme tell you a tale. -snap-

FIERCE!

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I finally finished the latest downloadable expansion to New Vegas. OH NO! NOT ANOTHER ABORTION FIST/FALLOUT POST!

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In a season defined by sequels, trilogies, and re-imaginations of older works, big new properties are a rare breed. Catherine is not only new, but it's unlike any other game I've played before - in more ways that one. A tale of tragedy bound up in sexy packaging and wacky Japanese presentation, Catherine suffers the unfortunate fate of being an extraordinarily fun, challenging game put together in an arty, experimental narrative that will prevent the world at large from being able to appreciate the love and attention that was packed into the parts of the game that actually look and feel like a proper video game.

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