Post Tagged with: "Reviews"

RipTen Review: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (3DS)

Back in 1998 there was a lot of buzz about the upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time…

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RipTen Review: Transformers – Dark of the Moon (Xbox 360)

Last year, RipTen reviewed Transformers: War for Cybertron and we liked it very much…

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Operation Flashpoint: Red River – New Walkthrough Video Series

Spend some quality time with the Marines in Tajikistan as we take you through a new video gameplay series for Codiemasters latest Operation Flashpoint foray…

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Battlefield 3 Lead Platform to Be PC – Suck it Console Fanboys!

As well as 64 player dedicated servers for PC, Patrick Bach confirmed that the PC would be the preferred platform of development for Battlefield 3 . . .

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Bethesda Announces Release Dates for RAGE, Brink, Hunted and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Bethesda has given gaming geeks like us the world over a reason to be excited today, well actually four reasons to be excited after they just went on a release date announcing frenzy!

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Samsung Already Creating Worlds First DDR4 RAM Module

It looks like I’ll have to splash out even more cash for my PC as Samsung announced earlier this morning that they’re working on the worlds first DDR4 RAM modules…

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RipTen Radio Down Under – Episode 5

Bryce Wilson, Aaron Alexander and special guest Shaun Hammond bring you another episode of the universe’s greatest podcast. Okay, well maybe it’s not the worlds greatest …

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EA Predicting 90%+ Review Scores for Crysis 2

Talk about confidence! EA, the publisher of upcoming PC-to-console sellout Crysis 2, is predicting that once again Crytek is going to have another 90+ rated game on their hands…

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Ripten Review: Alien Swarm

Alien Swarm is a bit of an anomaly in the world of video games. It’s a source mod, based on an Unreal mod, released officially, for free. The developers are part of Valve’s workforce, and worked on Left 4 Dead 2 and Portal 2, but were only hired as a result of making this mod- and now it’s an official Valve game. Yes, it’s an odd one indeed …

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Ripten Review: Transformers: War for Cybertron

Transformers: War for Cybertron is such a great game that it will drain the snarky jadedness out of you and replace it through a few targeted IV drips of nostalgia and entertainment.

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Ripten Review: Bayonetta

Let’s go ahead and address the elephant in the game- Bayonetta‘s eponymous Bayonetta is meant to be sexy. Reading the developer blogs and looking at the concept art, it’s clear that Platinum Games knew exactly what they were doing by creating a femme fatale with long legs and nude attacks, and they use it to [...]

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Bayonetta Demo Coming December 3rd

The Xbox Live and PlayStation Network demo of Sega’s Bayonetta will be coming to the US and Europe on December third, Sega announced today. They’re particularly proud of this one, since highly respected publications Edge (from the UK) and Famitsu (from Japan) have both awarded the game perfect scores. Bayonetta is the 11th game to [...]

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PC Review: Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box

Burnout Paradise was one of the best-received games of 2008 on the consoles, and is currently hailed as one of the best racing games this generation. A year later, and the game has had a multitude of downloadable content, all substantial and mostly free. This is aggregated in “The Ultimate Box” released for PS3, Xbox [...]

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Gaming Trends Part 4: Reviewing Reviews

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been noticing quite a few themes that have been making their way through the industry. Throughout GDC, many of these took center stage in a variety of forms. Today, we review the reviews.

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The New 10 Point Review Scale for Aspiring Game Journalists

Many people have been wondering how the close relationship between game reviewers and publishers translates into critical articles that are viewed by the consumer. Publishers love a great review, and might slap a quote on their box, but if they’re not happy with your score, there’s hell to pay.

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