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Nintendo EAD Tokyo & 1-UP Studio’s “Super Mario 3D World” is pretty much everything you’ve ever wanted in a Mario title.  First off, it artfully blends together the trademark overhead 2D gameplay you find throughout recent series releases with some abstract 3D designs.  The result is a game that looks, plays and responds like you’d

The highly-entertaining and often hilarious Sims series has long been a fixture of PC gaming thanks to its extremely addictive strategy-based gameplay and comic visuals.  Luckily of course, the game’s developers Maxis / The Sims Studio aren’t attempting to reinvent the wheel, as they say.  The winning formula which they’ve worked so hard to develop

In short, Dong Nguyen’s “Flappy Bird” is a no-frills mobile game which provides exactly the sort of experience it advertises.  You control the side-scrolling movement of a somewhat clunky “Flappy” bird, the ever-present goal being to avoid steering your fowl into any of the green pipes which are located above of below.  That just about

Sony and Microsoft have really become quite the competitors.  While the Nintendo empire is always a threat (and always seemingly popular with a certain demographic), it is the animosity between the PlayStation and Xbox franchises which most seem to be more interested in.  Naturally, it’s more or less an issue of which box has the

When you first lay eyes on “Banished” it’s easy to simply think that it’s just another strategy / sim title which involves building cities – nothing particularly new, in other words.  Of course if you did this then you would seriously be short-selling this wonderfully inventive and rustically-styled game.  You essentially act as some sort

Business simulator games clearly aren’t meant for everyone, but if you can appreciate the finer points of a game which allows you to effectively control all the various aspects of running something fairly complex, Zoo Tycoon is a pretty enjoyable game.  One of the things which tends to remain rather sparse in a lot of

In case you haven’t heard, this time around Microsoft is being a little bit more understanding with regards to non-OEM headset users.  As per this story from ITworld, a specialized headset adapter is being rolled out in March (2014) which allows a person to use whatever audio hardware they might already have.  In other words,

Given the incredible success of “Grand Theft Auto V”, we thought it appropriate to take a track back in time to see where the series got its start.  While GTA III is often seen as being the progenitor of the series, the fact of the matter is that the open-world car-jacking formula actually got its

Do you find yourself often bored or on the lookout for something interesting to do in your off time?  Do you own a device which utilizes the iOS mobile operating system, such as the iPhone, iPad, iPod or second-generation Apple TV?  If so, you’re in luck because we have a perfect suggestion for you –

Like its predecessor, “Grand Theft Auto”, “Grand Theft Auto 2” is yet another open world game that’s based on a fixed top-down / bird’s eye view perspective. Similarly, GTA 2 also involves lots of violent activities such as car-jacking, contract killing, and completing missions for select groups (gangs / corrupt corporations). However, unlike the first

If you’re a PC gamer you are probably already well aware of the insane amount of software that’s out there available to download.  Truthfully, there are so many games on hand that it’s virtually impossible to even give most of them a test run, for lack of time.  Moreover, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to locate

One of the great things about PC gaming is that there’s a super-abundance of choice out there.  If you’re the type of person that likes 3D gaming, particularly of the open-world variety, then you’re in luck.  We’ve compiled a list of some of the more notable open / semi-open world games of late, many of