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Life Is Strange (PC)


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  • Time to complete: ~12 Hrs
  • Release Date: 2015

While Life is Strange may start out as a fairly innocent-seeming teenage student-y adventure game, it develops a harsh, gritty edge that some may find disturbing and unpleasant. Think Donnie Darko - if you thought little of DD, or hate teenagers (...

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Spec Ops: The Line (PC)


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  • Time to complete: ~5 hrs
  • Release: 2012

Take any Call of Duty 'modern warfare' shooter entry, make it 3rd person, give it a squad size of 3 (2 AI companions), and a decent story which becomes a bit of a treatise on what a person may feel necessary to do when the mission parameters get skewed,...

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Apex Legends (PC)


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As my first battle royale game, I feel I chose Apex Legends wisely. I appreciate good movement in my first-person shooters, which AL certainly has. The characters ('legends') are not immediately appealing, but are compelling enough in their own way, and offer individual skills vital to success in th...

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Fight'N Rage (PC)


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  • Release Date: September 2017
  • Time to complete: ~1hr

When done right, "belt scrolling beat'em up"s (that's games like Final Fight, or Streets of Rage), are a classic arcade-y experience that are a lot of fun, especially with a 2nd player. Fight'N Rage is up there with the best, with great fee...

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TF2 - whitespace clan frag vid and history


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Clan " " (whitespace)

August 2008 - 7th November 2008

Team Fortress 2 was a game I got... reasonably... involved in, from pubbing near release, to joining the local New Zealand community at NZFortress, to joining a clan, to admining one of the yearly leagues for NZF, to leading a clan (or two).....

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