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GAME REVIEW – 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa (Xbox 360)

By Duncan Voice

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[Insert generic opening line about England losing on penalties, a broken metatarsal and the influence of WAGs here].

2010 Fifa World Cup is the latest inevitable cash cow of EA’s now excellent football series. Perhaps slightly unfair to label it a cash cow, it is difficult to recommend nonetheless, despite it being the best incarnation of the beautiful game. And when I say beautiful, that isn’t with Carlos Tevez in mind…

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GAME REVIEW – Lead and Gold: Gangs Of The Wild West (PlayStation 3, PSN)

By Marty Mulrooney

Image converted using ifftoanyLead And Gold: Gangs of the Wild West is a new third person online western themed shooter. Developed by Fatshark, it was recently released on PC and PlayStation 3, with an Xbox 360 version still in the pipeline as well. So, how much bang for your buck will you get when playing the PlayStation 3 version?

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GAME REVIEW – Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse, Episode 2 – The Tomb Of Sammun-Mak

By Marty Mulrooney

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Those wonderful individuals at Telltale Games have done it again! The new series of Sam & Max started out strong with the release of Episode 1: The Penal Zone last month, but I never imagined in a million years that Episode 2 would trump that prior outing so quickly. Yet, with The Tomb Of Sammun-Mak, they may well have done just that. Ladies and gentleman, the bar for this brand new series featuring our favourite crime solving anthropomorphic dog and his hyperkinetic rabbity thing sidekick has just been raised!

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INTERVIEW – In Conversation With Lukasz Kukawski (GOG.com)

By Marty Mulrooney

Lukasz_Kukawski As many of AMO’s readers will no doubt be aware, I am a huge fan of old PC games. Recently, I have been getting my fix via the wonderful website GOG.com, created by a group of passionate gamers who specialise in Good Old Games. Last week, I was lucky enough to be able to pick the mind of their PR man Lukasz Kukawski, to ask him more about the site and old games in general. Here is what he had to say!

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