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We Review: XCOM: Enemy Within

Post author By Fayyaad
Post date November 27, 2013
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If you’ll recall, last year we reviewed XCOM: Enemy Unknown, and we loved it so much we gave it nine and a half prawns. That’s a lot of prawns. The game is back, this time as a standalone expansion pack (ie, you don’t need to own the original XCOM to play it). To prepare for this review, you have some homework—go read the review of the first XCOM game, because much of what I have to say will be covered there; I’m only going to include what’s changed in this review. No need to do things twice, eh? Onward!

Tags 2K Games, Firaxis, Megarom, PS3, steam, strategy games, video game reviews, xbox 360, XCOM

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We Review: Europa Universalis IV

Post author By Fayyaad
Post date August 29, 2013
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Europa Universalis IV from Paradox Interactive is the latest instalment of the grand strategy series, and adds many huge improvements to an already impressive game. I try my hand at world conquest to see if this is the game that makes kings, or the kind that makes kings turn in their graves.

Tags 4X games, Europa Universalis, european history, grand strategy, historical games, Paradox Interactive, pc games, steam, strategy games

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We Review: The Night of the Rabbit

Post author By Fayyaad
Post date June 13, 2013
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Once upon a time when the world was a more magical place and everything was an adventure to behold…do you remember? You don’t? Come…take my hand. I’ll show you.

Tags pc games, point and click adventure games, steam, video game reviews

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We Review: Farming Simulator 2013

Post author By Fayyaad
Post date May 24, 2013

Bear with me: this seems like a very odd game to want to review. A farming sim, I hear you scoff. Yes, I reply, a farming sim. Furthermore, a FIRST PERSON farming sim. Well, mostly. So the sight of ducks and geese and cows are to greet me in the game, says you. No, says I. There’s something you’ve forgotten about farming, and is apparently mostly what the game is about: vehicles.

Tags farming simulator 2013, pc games, Simulator games, steam, video game reviews

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Hot and Steamy

Wikipedia defines the Leidenfrost effect as “a phenomenon in which a liquid, in near contact with a mass significantly hotter than the liquid’s boiling point, produces an insulating vapor layer which keeps that liquid from boiling rapidly.”

Reading the concept might be boring, but seeing it in action is somewhat cooler. In this little clip, a glowing ball of red hot nickel is dropped into a container of water. Thanks to Leidenfrost effect, the surface of the ball becomes insulated from the water by a blanket of steam. But the effect is temporary, watch what happens when the ball cools.

The Leidenfrost effect has been demonstrated in a few other ways, most notably when the mustachioed Mythbuster Jamie Hyneman dared to dip his little piggy into a pot of molten lead. Have a look at that reaction after the jump.

Tags hot, Leidenfrost effect, science, steam