Aurora, RTS PC Game Review

Aurora's tag line is simple: 'Aurora is an ambient indie RTS game that simplifies the genre to its strategic core.' I'm pleased to say that the game delivers on all promises and will make RTS converts out of even the most casual gamers with its charming simplicity and wicked gameplay. Oh, and the music. Did I mention the music? Warfare has never been so cosmically beautiful, and melodic.

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Tales of Monkey Island Review | Adventure Your Monkey, LeChuk!

Those of us who had fond memories of playing Monkey Island back in the 1980's, when computers where real computers and monkeys were real monkeys will be entranced by the multi series effort of the revamped Tales of Monkey Island. I certainly was, to the extent that I bought the entire five part series on Steam.

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Mirror's Edge: Playing In The Flow

So, after wanting to play Mirror's Edge for the better part of a year, but not wanting to part with $70 for the privilege, I finally managed to score the game for $5 on Steam. Seriously. $5. If you don't use Steam for buying PC games, then you're probably throwing your money away. You may as well just burn it. But I digress.

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Audiosurf PC Game Review

Audiosurf is an interesting indie PC game with a nice premise, it takes your favorite music and uses it to generate a race track, which you then play through, going faster at high energy points in the song, and going slower in the more mellow sections all the while being showered in sparkles of bright color. I'm not saying you'd have to be soulless hollow shell of a human being not to like this game, but if you don't like this game, then you're probably not going to heaven.

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