Contributor: Kevin Simpson

Wolfenstein: The New Order

In this alternate reality the Nazis won WWII and have reshaped everything in their bleak, black-and-blood-red image. Time for a guy named BJ to use his damaged brain (and by brain we mean brawn) to start saving the world.

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Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

Metal Gear Solid offers up a sampler plate in hopes of whetting appetites for the upcoming main course. But we’ve got to be honest, It just gave us a stomachache.

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Dark Souls II

The incredibly difficult Dark Souls franchise delivers another 40-plus hour journey into a virtual world that’s all about dying over and over.

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Thief

Is this franchise reboot a game of big rewards, a penny-ante thief of your time or something altogether more grim?

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Call of Duty: Ghosts

Series game No. 10 sets up a new future battle in a new CoD universe. But it all looks so bloodily familiar.

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Grand Theft Auto V

UPDATED REVIEW: Sixty-nine levels of slam-bang slaughter and sex. Wasn’t this franchise supposed to be about stealing cars?

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Saints Row IV

Average street gang thuggery gives way to sci-fi smashing and bashing. But not even superpowers can help this game fly above the blood-spilling crowd.

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Company of Heroes 2

Some sing the praises of this challenging RTS game. Others issue stark detractions. Some revel in its heroes. Others are soured by its villains. War certainly has a way of dividing us, even when it’s in the form of a video game.

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Resident Evil: Revelations

Is it actually a new revelation or still dead men walking as old man Resident Evil raises his weathered head with another excursion into virally infected horror?

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Metro: Last Light

Living in an underground metro system while the surface above glows from nuclear devastation is not an easy life. And it’s not an easy game. (Or a splatter-free one either.)

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Pandora’s Tower

If you’re thinking tall tower, trapped girl and long blonde hair, you’ve got the wrong fairy tale. Rapunzel didn’t have to gobble down raw monster flesh in order to stay human.

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Gears of War: Judgment

And you thought that the tale was told. That the guns had gone silent. That the gears had ground to a halt.

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Crysis 3

Anyone can be a Superman or Iron Man with the right gadget-filled armor. But will this tech-laden shooter suit you?

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DmC: Devil May Cry

This hack ‘n’ slasher is a monster to play, difficult beyond almost all others in the genre. But that’s not why DmC is a truly monstrous game.

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Far Cry 3

Far Cry 3 has packed its vacation suitcase full of foul food. But if you don’t go along for the ride, you won’t have to eat any of it.

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