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Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat Review

Game: Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat Developer: PipeWorks Software Platform: Xbox 360 Achievements: 1/36 Puerile Moments in History Upon headshotting Vlad the Impaler, Sun Tzu unceremoniously shouts, “Impale that, Vlad!!...
by Jerry
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Blue Magic by A. M. Dellamonica Review – A Satisfying Journey

Blue Magic by Alyx Dellamonica is the sequel to Indigo Springs, winner of the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. It is the story of how lives are changed in the wake of ecological disaster—in this story,...
by Jules
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Country Dance All-Stars Review

Game: Country Dance All-Stars Developer: High Voltage Software Platform: Xbox 360 with Kinect Achievements: 5/14 (though it lists 15 Achievements, one of them is impossible to achieve) Let’s get this out of the way first – ...
by Jerry
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Review: The BabyLit® Series by Jennifer Adams Makes Me Wish My Boys Were Still Wee

There are many things now available to today’s parents of young children that make me wish my boys were still wee. The choice of educational, yet fun and even geeky, products currently available is overwhelming. The BabyL...
by Jules
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‘The Thorn And The Blossom’ by Theodora Ross Is A Satisfying Fairy Tale

Quirk Books has a knack for publishing books that are, as the name suggests, quirky. These books may contain zombies running amuck at a Star Trek convention, literary mash-ups, over-the-top poetry, and more. Or they may contain...
by Jules
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Spectrangle360 review

Game: Spectrangle 360 Developer: Iron Reaver Games Platform: Xbox 360 (Xbox Live Indie Game) Achievements: N/A I consider myself lucky that I wasn’t playing the original boardgame version of Spectrangle. It would seem that pl...
by Jerry
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‘Give Death a Chance: The British Zombie Invasion 2′ Review – Ridiculously Good Fun

Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison are dead. Or rather, I should say undead. Ringo Starr is a ninja. They are on a quest to become the Toppermost Of The Poppermost. To this end, they’ve “enlisted” the hel...
by Jules
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3D Bears Review

Once upon a time, we had paper dolls. You’d tear them and their clothing out of sheets of heavy paper, dress them up and play with them for hours on end. Now, we have 3D Bears. 3D Bears is a very simple app. You pick one...
by Jules
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‘Deep Black: Reloaded’ Review

VITAL INFORMATION Deep Black: Reloaded–despite the subtitle, this appears to be the first game in the presumed series–is a third person cover shooter–or an “arcade TPS” as described by independent Russian ...
by Travis
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Zumba Fitness Rush Review

Game: Zumba Fitness: Rush Developer: Zoe Mode Platform: Xbox 360 with Kinect Achievements: 14 out of 32, 335/1000 points Five minutes into playing Zumba Fitness: Rush, in the middle of the second song of our workout, my wife an...
by Jerry
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