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Just finished playing Mass Effect 2. All that follows hereafter is peppered with spoilers for ME1 & ME2.
[Spoiler Warning - Mass Effect 1, Mass Effect 2]

Over Christmas, my brother and I exchanged our traditional XBox 360 games. I got him Assassin’s Creed 2 and he got me Modern Warfare 2.
In both cases, these games demonstrate really nicely how developers should create sequels. the best sequel keeps the core feel of the original game, and adds new depth and interesting [...]

Initially I thought this was pretty cool, but actually I think I prefer the old-fashioned Pen & Paper method.

Surfacescapes Demo Walkthrough from Visual Story TAs on Vimeo.

I’ve been playing lots of Mass Effect as Uber can no doubt attest. Its very, very good and I’ve enjoyed it hugely. I played through it the first time as a mean sod with no patience, cut off all the NPC’s in mid-exposition with curt ‘we haven’t time for this’ and took the race against [...]

I was a bit baffled by the fact that Black Library dropped Warhammer 40K: Dark Heresy. It sold at lightning speed, and it was an excellent book with really good writing and ideas.
Luckily, Fantasy Flight Games picked up the franchise, and their books have, from my point of view, been pretty good so far. [...]