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Mirrors Edge Review (PS3)

At Wuup we are always a few months behind, not having the huge budget or time, to review games as they are released. We usually have to wait till we can borrow, find cheap, rent or steal each game to review. Recently i’ve managed to get a hold of Mirrors Edge by Dice (Battlefield 2) for the PS3 and i thought i’d share my thoughts with you.

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PS3 vs Xbox 360 Feature Comparison Chart

So, here we are, another “PS3 vs Xbox 360” article. This one however is not intended to slate either system. This article is simply a feature comparison of the hardware and software for people to read and make there own judgment.

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Steam LAN Game Issues

As a few of you may know, recently Bill and I (Alan) journeyed to a place which could be mistaken for Mordor, to tear it up on the slopes of Scotland with snowboarding. Whilst there we planned to do some gaming on our laptops using the ‘wonders’ of steam. So we made sure we had [...]

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Why Does Left 4 Dead Servers Suck / Lag?

I’ll tell you why! Just to personally annoy me, nevermind everyone else – me! It’s so annoying. Valve, steam, whoever, really neeed to sort it out. The ‘Dead Air’ Campaign is the worst I’ve noticed, try and get an expert server match for that, half the time it throws me into a PVP server, so [...]

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PC Games Industry in Decline?

Just a little random thought I’ve had recently, just as I was remembering about how PC games use to be in big cardboard boxes, 10 times the size of its contents, and of course always in front of you as you went inside the shop door… …Now not so much, I walk into ‘Game Station’ [...]

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A Puzzlix preview

The first game to come out of “Fornax Studios”, a game for the Xbox 360, released as part of their community games program. It is the standard slider puszzle game, you slide parts of a picture around till you complete the picture. The level of difficulty within this game consists of how many squares the [...]

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Dawn of War II : Quick Beta Thoughts

Obviously I’m not going to do a full review, that would be a bit silly as this is a beta, athough the curiously named ‘beta’ seemed a little much for something which has clearly passed beta stage. Anyway… lets have a quick look then… What is Dawn of Ware II? Well if your pale skinned, [...]

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Valkyria Chronicles, could it be the best game of 2008?

It is a “3rd person action strategy turn based” game. You get a turn, you move your units, when you can move nothing more then enemy moves theirs and so on and so on till someone wins.

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Why are there no fat Avatars?

Has anybody else noticed that custom characters can never be really fat? or be in wheelchairs? It would be so funny to have a really fat character in Mass Effect or on the 360. but you cant do it!

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Indie Reviews: 2D Boy's World of Goo

When you think of gaming in general what games pop into mind? You may think off games like Halo, GTA, Tomb Raider, or any other generic mainstream game (of which there has been a lot of releases lately). This is why i love Steam and its support of indipendent developers (indie), in this case, 2D BOY and they’re title World of Goo…

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