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Rage Review (Multi-platform)

Caveat emptor: if you’re going to plunk down $60 for Rage, you may want to prepare yourself for the five stages of grief....  read more

Start Press: The Floating Gun Barrel

I watched the dawn of the first-person shooter genre in third person. It was my older brother Trey obsessively playing id Software’s Wolfenstein 3D at the family computer, while I skeptically eyed the proceedings over his shoulder. I had no interest in playing the game myself, steering that floating gun barrel down one indistinguishable stone corridor after another. Every few seconds he’d plug a Nazi or an attack dog. I never stuck around to see if he got a chance to nestle a bullet in Hitler’s pencil-thin moustache....  read more

Doom 4 promises beautifully-rendered descent into hell

If you grew up in the mid-'90s, odds are you had some kind of exposure to the seminal computer game Doom. Maybe you were one of the kids who spent countless afternoons roaming the demon-infested hallways of the UAC laboratories, shooting up hellspawn and absorbing improbable amounts of return fire (possibly while listening to metal.) Or perhaps you were turned off by the game's hyper-violent ethos, which ruffled the feathers of more than one member of the U.S. legislature....  read more