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Review: 'Dishonored'

Being bodyguard to an empress and guardian to her young daughter sounds like a pretty cushy gig — so long as no traitorous official has her assassinated, kidnaps the daughter and frames the bodyguard for the crime.

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Review: XCOM

When alien invaders begin attacking cities worldwide and kidnapping civilians for unknown reasons, the operatives of XCOM are the world’s first and only line of defense.
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Review: More free video games

Continuing from last week, here are some more games you can enjoy without spending a dime.
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Review: Free video games

The life of a gamer can be an expensive one.
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Video game review: 'Transformers: Fall of Cybertron'

Michael Bay’s “Transformers” movies may be getting worse with each installment, but Activision’s “Transformers” games are getting better.
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Video Game Review: Go for the gold in New Super Mario Bros. 2

Coins, coins coins. They’ve been all over the place in “Super Mario” games from the very beginning. Collect 100, and you get an extra life. They’re so familiar that you probably don’t give them a second thought.
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Video Game Review: Death himself is at your command in 'Darksiders II'

In the first “Darksiders,” you guided War, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, on aquest to clear his name of the charge of jumping the gun on the end of the world — the last battle between the forces of Heaven and Hell — which led to the total annihilation of humanity...
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Computer Game Review: Clash of the Titans

Released in 2008, “Sins of a Solar Empire” did a neat thing — it took the grand scope of turn-based empire-building games like “Civilization” and married it to the tactical depth of real-time strategy games like “StarCraft.”
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Video Game Review: Spies and prophets take center stage in 'Gods & Kings'

Released in 2010, “Civilization V” made a lot of changes to long-established elements of the venerable strategy series.
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You might remember this tune ...

The music of the “Final Fantasy” games has been a standout feature from the beginning, with certain memorable tunes cropping up over and over again through the years, always accompanied by plenty of fresh themes in each new installment.
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‘Lego Batman 2’ teams Caped Crusader with some super friends

There hasn’t been a video game based directly on a Batman movie since “Batman Begins” in 2005. But that doesn’t mean the shelves will be bare of video-game adventures for the man in black as “The Dark Knight Rises” opens tomorrow.