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I’m about halfway through a dark subway tunnel when I realize I’ve been here before. I had ended up back in the dark, dirty depths after nearly being asphyxiated in the dust storm currently raging outside, one of the many dangerous things in this new, post-apocalyptic world. I haven’t been in the city for a year since the disaster and the streets are still very familiar to me, but I never expected

The new trend is for game publishers with just-crazy-enough-to-work sequel ideas to release the games as bite-sized, stand-alone downloads that look and feel just like the disc-based games. That’s how ‘Red Dead Redemption’s’ straight-shooting cowboy John Marston ended up tangling with zombies in ‘Undead Nightmare’ and superhuman rail-surfer Cole Phelps of Infamous infamy ended up becoming a v

Back in the day, one of the biggest staples of the mall and movie theater arcades was the face smashing, button masher ‘Wrestlefest.’. Now it’s back on the iPhone and the iPad. THQ has revived the classic square circle pixel-fest that not only includes some of the biggest and brightest names from World Wrestling Entertainment’s not-so-humble beginnings but also their newest superstars...

Last week Angry Birds invaded Facebook, and next month the sling-shot strategy game will be headed to the final frontier. Yup, it’s Angry Birds Space.

We used to laugh at pundits like this who say video games are worthless trash — or worse, a tool of the devil meant to torment your soul. That is, until we played Amy, which proves those sentiments exactly right. A vestige of the nearly extinct survival horror genre, the game is horrifying for all the wrong reasons...