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Headshots with the accuracy of a laser mouse.

Back when I first went to college, I found myself getting heavily into the PC gaming scene. In preparation, I built myself a ridiculous Alienware gaming laptop, complete with all of the best hardware available at the time. About halfway through my first year, Direct X 9 became standardized and before I knew it, my once cutting edge gaming rig was horribly incapable and outdated. Since then, I've laid off the PC gaming scene and moved almost exclusively to console games. In the transition I've greatly missed the amazing precision of the keyboard and mouse set-up provided by PCs, particularly in first person shooters.

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The third edition of Persona 3 features great tweaks and solid improvements to nearly every facet of the gameplay.

Persona 3 was a game that became one of my favorite titles of all time completely by accident. Thanks to a great sale by Gamestop, I acquired the game free of charge and had no intention of playing more than ten minutes just to see what it had to offer. To my surprise, I was hooked nearly immediately, and soon wondered how ten minutes of inspecting the game turned into an uncontrollable urge to learn more about the characters, the strange world, fantastic combat, and the social link system that added a whole new dimension to the game.

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The good old days, when machineguns were mounted on a swivel to the arcade cabinet and ammo wasn't even a concern.

Light gun games have a come a long way since they were introduced many years ago. One of the first I can remember playing as a kid was Gunblade NY from Sega. The cabinet featured two mounted machineguns and the gameplay encouraged constant gripping of the trigger. There were no alternative goals to the gameplay, it was simply point and shoot at anything that moved. As the years have gone by, players have experienced far deeper missions, a variety of guns, and some more complicated cabinets to do simple pointing and shooting. With the latest release from Sega, players have the ability to step back in time and enjoy two classics of the genre, Gunblade NY and L.A. Machineguns.

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With Team Ninja at the reins, players are in for a Metroid experience unlike any other.

Metroid is a wonderful example of how the passage of time and advances in technology have taken a beloved classic and slowly shaped it into an ever evolving gaming experience. The latest entry in the series, Metroid: Other M, is a title that shatters the mold of any Metroid game to date, creating an experience that might spark some controversy among the series' long-standing fans.

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No, CM4’s DSi XL case will not run Crysis.

CM4 has created a snazzy case for DSi XL owners craving a little change in their gaming style. The Catalyst Slim Cover for the Nintendo DSi XL is a sturdy, aesthetically charged fabric wrapped aluminum case. While the case is a little expensive for what CM4 is offering, we believe it's a very viable option for those interested in upgrading the look and feel of their DSis.

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