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Football Manager 2008 - PC

19 October 2007, 09:04

Why is Football Manager one of the UK's best loved franchises? Don’t they just involve shuffling through dozens of spreadsheets and reams of text and then simply watching a graphically ...

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Stranglehold - PC

17 October 2007, 13:33

It's a third person shooter heavily influenced by John Woo's Harboiled and even stars Chow Yun Fat... so there's as much slow-motion, zoomed in, white doves fluttering, machine gun action ...

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Carnival Games - Wii

17 October 2007, 09:29

Designed for families and children of all ages, Carnival Games hopes to bring home all the excitement and fanfare of a day at the carnival. Try out your skills at ...

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Ratatouille - Xbox 360, PS2

15 October 2007, 15:33

Well, the movie of Ratatouille has raked it in at the box office and had a great critical reception, so surely THQ will do Pixar proud and at least throw ...

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Colin McRae DiRT - PS3

12 October 2007, 11:31

Why are we doing a separate PS3 review? Well simply put, the PS3 version of Colin McRae DiRT is possibly one of the finest rally games you’ll ever see until ...

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Sapphire Radeon HD 2600 XT Dual

12 October 2007, 07:29

Sapphire pulls out a dual-GPU Radeon HD 2600 XT out of the technical hat. We tell you if it's any good.

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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 - Xbox 360

11 October 2007, 11:06

So what's changed from last year? Well, there's GamerNet, a new game mode, a few tweaks here and there, and my personal favourite, the addition of trans-gender face mapping. Read ...

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Radeon HD 2600 XT shootout - GeCube v Sapphire

10 October 2007, 09:02

Two special-edition Radeon HD 2600 XTs go head-to-head in our shootout. Sapphire's silence against GeCube's cooling. Which one is better?

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FIFA 08 - Xbox 360

9 October 2007, 15:26

It's time for the annual battle between the two big soccer franchises! I've had a love/hate relationship with FIFA 08 since it landed on my desk. But, finally I've come ...

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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 - PC

8 October 2007, 10:33

Tiger Woods was one of the very first game reviews I ever wrote for HEXUS. Back then it was a part-time thing which happily has progressed into a full-time career. ...

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Stranglehold - Xbox 360/PS3

5 October 2007, 12:52

Stranglehold is Chinese Director John Woo's first collaboration on a videogame and his flamboyant trademarks have been splattered over every inch of this blisteringly fast shooter.

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HIS Radeon HD 2900 Pro 512MiB Limited Edition

5 October 2007, 08:54

There's a new GPU in town, and its job is to pistol-whip the GeForce 8800 GTS 320 in to submission.

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Super Paper Mario - Wii

4 October 2007, 11:11

Nintendo have gone and done it again with what has to be one the most innovative games this year. Sure, Super Paper Mario is a side-scrolling 2D game but with ...

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Jam Sessions - Nintendo DS

3 October 2007, 09:42

Jam Sessions could be the ideal way to woo a lady on a first date, but a word of warning, under no circumstances should you play James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" ...

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Intel X38 and Foxconn X38A

3 October 2007, 08:58

Can Intel's X38 chipset offer enough to tempt users away from highly-popular motherboards based on the P35 and nForce 680i SLi chipsets? We're taking a look at an early sample ...

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Vadim Fusion LQX PC - a sight to behold at £5,800

2 October 2007, 09:30

Vadim Computers' Fusion LQX PC costs £5,800. It's got fancy water-cooling, a massively overclocked quad-core processor and some saucy air-brushed artwork. But what kind of value can it be with ...

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Halo 3 - Xbox 360

2 October 2007, 08:45

For three years Intense pressure has unenviably been on Bungie to deliver the ultimate first person shooter with Halo 3. The time has now come to judge and critisise their ...

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Freshly - Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland

26 September 2007, 10:58

It's so damn tediously laborious that you’ll want to put the game down, go outside and watch the grass grow, just for a bit of excitement. But am I being ...

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Ultraviolet Genesis XOC system. Yours for £4,500!

25 September 2007, 08:34

If fortune smiled upon you and £5,000 magically appeared in your lap, what would you buy? How about a luxury PC base unit with all the bells and whistles - ...

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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 - DS

21 September 2007, 14:36

Tiger Woods is back on the DS and this time around Electronic Arts have rewritten the game from the ground up and pushed the DS graphics abilities... but has all ...

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Two Worlds - Xbox 360

21 September 2007, 08:54

Like most RPGs, there's a huge amount of freedom in Two Worlds as you visit high, snow-covered mountains in the north, Dwarven foothills, green plains, rocky mountains in the south, ...

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World in Conflict - PC

20 September 2007, 10:13

Simply put, Massive Entertainment's World in Conflict could quite possibly be the best RTS game we've ever seen.

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Corsair DOMINATOR TWIN3X2048-1800C7 G

14 September 2007, 14:17

Is DDR3 worth buying right now? Just how fast is cutting-edge D3? Is Corsair's TWIN3X2048-1800C7 G worth the money?

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Medal of Honor: Airborne- Xbox 360

13 September 2007, 08:47

Medal of Honor: Airborne doesn't reinvent the first person shooter genre, like they'd like us believe, but it does look and feel so much fresher than the last game in ...

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Medal of Honor: Airborne - PC

12 September 2007, 11:53

Medal of Honor: Airborne is the latest in the series but this time gives the player far more freedom with objectives that can be completed in any order and pretty ...

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Foxconn G33M-S

12 September 2007, 07:57

We're taking a close look at Foxconn's microATX G33M-S mainboard. This G33-based board sports Intel's latest integrated graphics processor, the GMA 3100, but can that get the better of the ...

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Compro VideoMate E700 - say hi to a PCIe DVB-T tuner

7 September 2007, 08:53

As well as being one of the few TV tuners to use a PCIe slot, Compro's E700 can do one unusual trick. It can wake the host PC from the ...

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PC Specialist Apollo Q6600-X system - value or not?

6 September 2007, 08:57

We take a look at the well-spec'd Apollo Q6600-X mid-range PC from up-and-coming system integrator PC Specialist to see what sort of performance and value it provides.

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Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook T4215 UMTS Tablet PC

3 September 2007, 08:52

Go-anywhere broadband connectivity is a strong point of the Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook T4215 Tablet PC, thanks to an embedded UMTS card. But is that enough to justify its £1,350 price-tag ...

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Fatal Inertia - Xbox 360

31 August 2007, 09:38

Set in the 23rd Century Fatal Inertia mixes street racing, demolition derbies and rallying with a futuristic setting where machines no longer need wheels and the laws of physics govern ...

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Sapphire Radeon HD 2900 XT 512MiB

30 August 2007, 08:50

We take a look at Sapphire's Radeon HD 2900 XT. The company has been known to known to produce truly customised SKUs in the past, so will its R600 ...

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HIS Radeon HD 2600 XTs

24 August 2007, 09:02

We take a look at two non-reference Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics cards - the HIS Radeon HD 2600 XT Zalman Fan and IceQ Turbo - and pit them against ...

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HighPoint RocketRAID 2300 - Ready for take-off?

22 August 2007, 08:37

The HighPoint RocketRAID 2300 has got quite a few features but still relies on the CPU and operating system to do a lot of the work for it. Help or ...

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