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Free MMO FPS – Parabellum

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Parabellum - a free MMO FPS

GamersFirst (www.gamersfirst.com), a service of K2 Network and one of today’s most popular free2play online game destinations, announces Parabellum (http://gamersfirst.com/parabellum/), a brand new Free2Play massive multiplayer online First persons Shooter, set to invade San Francisco’s Game Developers Conference (GDC). Parabellum combines the best elements of FPS (First Person Shooter) and MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online) games to create an extremely unique and fully customizable gaming experience. Parabellum introduces the first interactive non-linear multiplayer campaigns in addition to an advanced character & weapon development system and realistic and engaging game-play. Read more »

Ready 2 Rumble: Revolution – Review

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Ready 2 Rumble: Revolution

Going back in time, Ready 2 Rumble was an excellent game on the Sega Dreamcast – a console that was sadly overlooked when released. The cartoon style graphics were really very good, the animations superb and the strange characters great fun to play. This new, third instalment on the Nintendo Wii should be the perfect party game. Unfortunately, the game suffers the same problem as the boxing in Wii Sports – simply put, I didn’t find the game accurate enough to translate the variety of moves I was trying to pull off – or indeed that featured in the move list of the manual! Read more »

House Of The Dead Makes The Record Books

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The House of the Dead: Overkill

The House of the Dead: Overkill charges you with mowing down waves of infected, blood-thirsty zombies in a last-ditch effort to survive Bayou City and uncover the horrific truth behind the origins of the House of the Dead. Survival horror as it’s never been seen before! A pulp-style take on the classic Sega light-gun shooter series. Back when the famous Agent G was still fresh out of the academy, he teamed up with hard-boiled bad-ass Agent Washington to investigate stories of mysterious disappearances in small-town Louisiana. Little did they know what blood-soaked mutant horror would await them in the streets and swamps of Bayou City. The game has a wonderful Read more »

The Action Camera

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The Action Camera

If you lead an active lifestyle, then you might well enjoy playing hard as well as working hard. Those of you who enjoy a bit of skateboarding, snowboarding, off-roading or just about any other type of event that might need videoing and showing off to your friends afterwards should consider The Action Camera. These two tough, little, no-nonsense digital movie cams can attach to a helmet, mast, handlebars, your foot, arm or whatever to record your latest adrenalin rush. Finally, you’ll have something worthwhile to add to YouTube or MySpace that’s actually interesting and exciting. Keep your hands free to pull the rip cord, swing from a branch, leap bungeed Read more »

MadWorld Countdown Has Begun

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MadWorld

In case you’ve been living under a console rock and don’t know what all the fuss is about, MadWorld is set to be one of the most crazy, violent videogames with a graphic novel look. Not only that, but it is on the family-friendly Nintendo Wii – shock horror! Varrigan City is where the game takes place. It’s a city that has been seized by terrorists and turned into their own sporting arena; where “kill or be killed” is the only rule. Welcome to Death Watch…. As players battle enemies they must master the use of various weapons and items found within their environment, such as a chainsaws and street Read more »

Watchmen Review

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Watchmen

Zack Snyder‘s stylish adaptation of the Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons graphic novel has certainly taken a long time to reach the silver screen. Has it been worth the wait though? Oh yes. The film follows closely to the graphic novel, but that’s not to say it doesn’t have appeal to those who don’t know the story – it does. Set in a very different version of the 1980s to our own, relations between America and the Soviet Union are reaching fever pitch. This culminates in a very real potential of nuclear attack. Nixon takes a historic third term in the White House, whilst costumed heroes remain a part of Read more »

Free 2004 Build Of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. free 2004 build

In a move that has almost never happened before, the Ukranian developer GSC Game World has decided to release a very early build of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shaodw of Chernobyl that predates the final release by two and a half years. The version of the game – ‘xrCore’ build 1935, dated October 18th 2004 – is available from several links online, but visit here for a reliable download. Several levels that were cut from the final game, including Dead City, Swamp and Generators, are available to play in the build. It’s described as “playable”, although GSC says emphatically that it doesn’t guarantee stability or fitness, and won’t provide technical support for it. Read more »

Halo Wars Review – Xbox 360

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Halo Wars

Introduction There aren’t too many decent RTS games on this current crop of consoles, so it was no surprise that Halo Wars was destined to make a big splash – especially with the famous franchise name in the title. Set before the original trilogy, the game has you in command, in single player or cooperative, of human forces fighting against the alien Convenant and the parasitic Flood. Capturing the Halo world shouldn’t have been too difficult a task given that there are three games already to market, however, it’s still a compliment to the developers that the game comes across as an authentic Halo experience despite you having control far Read more »

Giant Plush Microbes

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Lovely cute giant microbes

Here at Forever Geek, we like to be completely inclusive – whatever kind of geek you might happen to be. I personally enjoy science. It’s with this in mind that I was completely captivated by the new Giant Microbes. Of course, microbes tend to be extremely small – in fact completely invisible to the naked eye. The people at Plush have decided to bring these incredibly interesting micro-organisms to our view in the form of soft touch versions. Naturally, all Giant Microbes are cute, interesting coloured and furry to appeal to mini-scientists of all ages (and geeks of an older age!). They make great gifts for anyone who happens to Read more »

Onechanbara Bikini Samurai Squad Review (Xbox 360)

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Onechanbara Bikini Samurai Squad

The image on the cover of the game says it all really, a scantily clad woman brandishing two swords, just waiting to carve up the zombies contained within the game. Whilst on many other sites you’ll find that Onechanbara is taking a rather critical panning, I’m going to look at the game a slightly different way and review it accordingly. Story Onechanbara Bikini Samurai Squad is driven by a nonsensical story that centres on Aya and Saki – the ‘Samurai Squad’ of the title who have Baneful Blood. This blood allowed them to be excellent assassins and general all round bad-asses, before settling down for a more quiet life. However, Read more »