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1848 PC Strategy
1944: Battle of the Bulge PC Strategy
Act of War: Direct Action PC Strategy 8.5
Aliens vs Predator: Requiem PSP Shooter 3.8
American Civil War - The Blue and the Gray PC Strategy
American Civil War: Gettysburg PC Strategy
Area 51 Xbox Shooter
Assassin's Creed PC Shooter
Atomic Tanks PC Strategy
Battle of Britain 2: Wings of Victory PC Simulator
Battle Realms PC Strategy
Battlefield 2 PC Shooter 9.3
Battlefield 2142 PC Shooter 9.0
Battlefield 2: Special Forces PC Shooter 8.7
Battleground 1: Ardennes Deluxe: Bulge PC Strategy
Battleground 2: Gettysburg PC Strategy
Battleground 3: Waterloo PC Strategy
Battleground 4: Shiloh PC Strategy
Battleground 7: Bull Run PC Strategy
Battleground 9: Chickamauga PC Strategy
Battlestar Galactica PC Shooter
Beyond Divinity PC RPG
BioShock PC Shooter
Blitzkrieg II PC Strategy 8.2
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood PC Shooter
Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway PC Shooter
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 PC Shooter 8.7
Call of Duty 2 PC Shooter 9.3
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One Xbox Shooter
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare PC Shooter
Call of Duty: World at War PC Shooter
Celtic Kings: Rage of War PC Strategy
Chrome Specforce PC Shooter 6.3
Civilization IV PC Strategy 9.0
Clive Barker's Jericho PC Adventure
Close Combat: First to Fight PC Shooter
Cold Fear Xbox Shooter
Colin McRae: DIRT PC Driving
Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath PC Strategy 8.0
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars PC Strategy 8.8
Command & Conquer: Generals PC Strategy 7.5
Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour PC Strategy 7.8
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 PC Strategy 9.0
Company of Heroes PC Strategy 9.2
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts PC Strategy
Counter-Strike: Source PC Shooter
Crysis PC Shooter 9.7
Crysis Warhead PC Shooter 7.7
Dangerous Waters PC Simulator 9.3
Dawn of War: Dark Crusade PC Strategy
Day of Defeat: Source PC Shooter 8.6
Dead or Alive 3 Xbox Shooter
Dead Space PC Shooter
DEFCON PC Strategy 8.3
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down PC Shooter
Diablo 2: Lord Of Destruction PC RPG
Diablo: Hellfire PC RPG
Dungeon Siege II PC RPG
Empire: Total War PC Strategy 9.0
Enemy Engaged 2 PC Shooter 5.3
Europa Universalis III PC Strategy 9.2
Evil Islands: Curse of the Lost Soul PC RPG
F.E.A.R. PC Shooter 9.0
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin PC Shooter 8.7
F.E.A.R. Extraction Point PC Shooter
Faces of War PC Strategy
Fallout 3 PC RPG 8.7
Far Cry 2 PC Shooter
Far Cry Instincts Xbox Shooter
Flight Simulator X PC Simulator
Full Spectrum Warrior PC Shooter
Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers PC Shooter 8.2
Fury PC RPG
Gears of War PC Shooter
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter PC Shooter
Glest PC Strategy
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas PC Shooter
Ground Control 2: Operation Exodus PC Strategy
Ground Control II: Operation Exodus PC Shooter
Guild Wars PC RPG 9.0
Guild Wars Factions PC RPG 7.7
Halo: Combat Evolved Xbox Shooter
Hearts of Iron 2 PC Strategy 8.7
Hearts of Iron II - DOOMSDAY PC Strategy
Hellgate: London PC Shooter 7.0
Homeworld 2 PC Strategy 9.2
Icewind Dale PC RPG
Icewind Dale II PC RPG
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 PC Simulator
IL-2 Sturmovik: The Forgotten Battles PC Simulator 7.8
Joint Task Force PC Strategy 8.0
King's Quest III PC Adventure
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition PC Shooter
Mass Effect PC RPG 9.2
Medal of Honor Frontline GameCube Shooter
Medal of Honor Rising Sun Xbox Shooter
Medal of Honor: Airborne PC Shooter 7.2
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault PC Shooter
Medal of Honor: European Assault GameCube Shooter
Medieval 2: Total War PC Strategy 9.3
NBA Live 07 PC Sport
Need for Speed Underground 2 PC Driving 7.7
Neverwinter Nights 2 PC RPG
Nexus: the Jupiter Incident PC Strategy
Operation Flashpoint: Game of the Year Edition PC Shooter
Pacific Fighters PC Simulator
Pacific Storm PC Shooter
Pacific Storm: Allies PC Strategy 7.3
Painkiller PC Shooter 8.2
Panzer Elite Action PC Simulator
Prey PC Shooter
Quake 4 PC Shooter 8.3
Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Tides of War Xbox Shooter
Rome: Total War PC Strategy 8.5
Rush for Berlin PC Strategy 8.2
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl PC Shooter 7.7
Shadowbane PC RPG
Shadowgrounds Survivor PC Shooter 7.8
Silent Hunter 4: Wolves of the Pacific PC Simulator
Silent Hunter 4: Wolves of the Pacific - U-boat Missions PC Simulator
Silent Hunter III PC Simulator
Sins of a Solar Empire PC Strategy 8.7
Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix Xbox Shooter
Soldier of Fortune: Payback PC Shooter
Space Hulk PC Strategy
SpellForce PC Strategy
SpellForce - Shadow of the Phoenix PC Strategy
SpellForce 2 - Dragon Storm PC Strategy
SpellForce II - Shadow Wars PC Strategy
Star Trek: Legacy PC Strategy 6.3
Star Wars Battlefront II PC Shooter 8.0
Star Wars: Battlefront Xbox Shooter
Star Wars: Empire at War PC Strategy 8.7
Starcraft PC Strategy
Starship Troopers PC Shooter 3.2
Stranglehold PC Shooter 8.7
Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory PC Strategy
Supreme Commander PC Strategy 9.3
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance PC Strategy
Supreme Ruler 2020 PC Strategy 7.7
Take Command: 2nd Manassas PC Strategy
The Battle for Wesnoth PC Strategy
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion PC RPG 9.2
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth PC Strategy 8.7
The Lord of the Rings: the Battle for Middle-Earth II PC Strategy 8.2
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Xbox Shooter
The Mark PC Shooter
The Orange Box PC Shooter
The Witcher PC RPG 7.7
Timeshift PC Shooter
TimeShift PC Shooter
Titan Quest PC RPG 7.7
Titan Quest: Immortal Throne PC RPG 8.0
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter PC Shooter
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 PC Shooter
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas PC Shooter
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 PC Shooter
Universal Combat PC Shooter 6.3
Universe at War: Earth Assault PC Strategy 8.2
Unreal Tournament III PC Shooter
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines PC RPG 8.3
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne PC Strategy
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War PC Strategy 7.5
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War - Soulstorm PC Strategy
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II PC Strategy 9.3
Warsow PC Shooter
Warzone 2100 Resurrection Project PC Strategy
Wings Over Israel PC Simulator
World in Conflict PC Strategy
World in Conflict Complete PC Strategy
X3: Terran Conflict PC Simulator
Xpand Rally Xtreme PC Driving

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"CoD: Modern Warfare 2" - Australians May See a Re-Classification:(
posted on 11/24/2009 14:16

South Australian attorney-general Michael Atkinson, speaking on the ABC’s Radio National program National Interest last Friday (and outlined in reports in The Age and Kotaku AU), told host Peter Mares that he intends to appeal the Classification Board’s classification of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Rated MA15+, Atkinson claims that the OFLC has purposely let this rating "slip by".
He has appealed to the OFLC for a "re-classification" - in other words a BAN!!! Told you the airport scene wouldn't lie dormant.

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"Call of Duty" to Be Handled by Another Studio? Also an MMO in the Works? Rumours Abound.
posted on 11/18/2009 17:35

The Call of Duty franchise is already split between two studios, Infinity Ward and Treyarch, but an "LA Times" report seems to hint the series may soon be taken roughly by a third. The report also claims that an MMO based on the Call of Duty universe is being considered.

"As Activision seems to be discovering this year with Guitar Hero, there's danger when a title is overexposed with too many iterations," explains the report. "Nonetheless, the publisher has aggressive expansion plans for Call of Duty. Although Infinity Ward and Treyarch have produced sequels in alternating years since 2005, the publisher now has a third development studio working on future versions.

"One person close to the company said it also was considering adapting Call of Duty as a massively multi-player online world. The genre, in which Activision's Blizzard Entertainment subsidiary is a leader, requires huge upfront investments but can be very profitable as players pay a monthly subscription fee."

- By Ben Fritz, November 18, 2009
The Los Angeles Times

Talk of a Call of Duty MMO is nothing new, although the idea of a third studio creating games is interesting. Perhaps the third studio can do ones set in the future or something. It's bound to happen sooner or later.

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Video Game Reviews - How To Respond To Them.
posted on 11/10/2009 16:05

Videogame reviews. Some gamers out there believe that a review is a writer's personal opinion, one that shouldn't be taken to heart because it's just one person's feelings on a game and it doesn't really matter what somebody else says so long as you enjoy the game yourself. These people are wrong and stupid, and obviously don't understand what a videogame review is meant to be.
Reviews are the chlorophyll of the interactive entertainment industry. Videogames live and die by the word of one reviewer, and if a low score is given to a popular game, babies will literally die and rivers will run red with the blood of kittens. Videogame reviews are important, able to topple societies and slay kings, and if a low review score is given to a game you like, that is no different from the writer raping a fourteen-year-old, wheelchair-bound, dyslexic girl and filming it to put on YouTube. In fact, it's worse.
If a videogame review that you disagree with is posted online, you are duty-bound to respond and shame the writer into committing suicide, because it's just that crucial. Of course, you need to be armed with the proper responses, and fortunately , I am here to help. Come with me as I show you exactly how to respond to a videogame review. That no-good writer who trashed Uncharted 2 by giving it an 8.5 will be crying into his oatmeal by sundown!

1/ The writer obviously sucked at the game
2/ The scoring system is broken
3/ Compare it to other outlets' reviews
4/ Compare it to random reviews by the same outlet
5/ Reviews don't matter
6/ Because the score is bad, the writing sucks
7/ Accuse the review of trolling for hits
8/ Claim BIAS

***The exception, as there always is one, are the reviews here on SI.***

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Paradox Apparently Losining its's Bundle.
posted on 11/10/2009 16:00

First "East India Company" revealed a massive price slash (anywhere between half price to $5), now "Heats of Irone III" has been reduced to half price on Steam.
Hearts of Iron III lets you play the most engaging conflict in world history, World War 2, on all fronts as any country and through multiple different scenarios. Guide your nation to glory between 1936 and 1948 and wage war, conduct diplomacy and build your industry in the most detailed World War 2 game ever made.

Features:

Play as any nation from 1936 to 1948, more than 150 countries to choose from.
Control the oceans with aircraft carriers, submarines and battleships and use your air force to defend your skies, support your naval and ground forces, and to bomb your enemies
Thousands of historically accurate real-world military commanders and politicians.
Realistic military command AI with unprecedented levels of interaction
In-depth diplomatic and political system.
Historical accuracy combined with an unparalleled level of freedom of choice
More than 10,000 land provinces makes the game five times more detailed than HoI2 and the most detailed depiction of World War 2 ever made.
Customize your divisions in detail with more than 20 types of brigades
New economic system makes it possible to buy weapons from abroad.
Mobilization and reserves gives the option of surprise attacks, Blitzkrieg made real.
Government-in-exile makes it possible to continue to struggle from abroad with underground movements and uprisings against the oppressing power.
Strategic warfare system makes it more important to defend the skies and oceans against foreign attacks; leaving cities open to enemy bombing will now be devastating.
A completely new intelligence system, with several types of intelligence sources, makes it possible to get information about enemy reserves and troop movements.
Assign troops to "theatres" on the map to fight two-front wars more successfully.
The new AI system and more detailed map will allow for more strategic decisions.
Flexible technology system with hundreds of categories, where major powers get their own unique attributes.

What a shame. PC gamers get at it.

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Changes To SI.
posted on 10/30/2009 15:48

Well we knew they were coming Kres, and already things are looking much better. Just wanted to post this, just in case anyone new, or who hadn't read your post was confuzzled.
Big thumbs up (and no I'm not doing a crawly-bum-lick)!

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