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Whatever your talent or passion, Opium Pulses has a service that enables you to share your unique and personalised content to an engaged and relevant audience.Reviewers and CuratorsIf you've always wanted to get into reviewing and sharing your thoughts and opinions on video games good and bad, we have the platform for you to do so. You'll be provided with regular press copies of games to review and curate and share with the thousands of OP members and beyond. You can review any game you like, new or old and are not restricted to just positive reviews.News and Article WritersIf you

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Offensive Combat: Redux Review

Offensive Combat: Redux is a reboot, if you will, of a web-based shooter in which you try to frag as many other players as you can.As written before it's a reboot of a web-based shooter, arena shooter to be exact.There are a few different game modes, so you aren't always on your own, but these types of games tend to lend themselves to lone wolves. Three Gates AB have resurrected this cult classic and released it as a standalone, downloadable game. It kinda has that Quake 3 feeling in it but with more cartoony graphics. There's a lot of customization options and a lot

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De Blob Review

Today I review a game called De Blob which is a 3D platformer made by Blue Tongue Entertainment.These ink punks aren’t about that color life, so it’s up to you to spice the world back up again… free the worlds artists, and bring the 10 different stages back to life. This game was originally released on Wii in 2008 and is finally coming to the ps4, pc, and Xbox one nearly 10 years later, and while the gameplay holds up, standards have changed and the experience isn’t as great as it once was. De Blob starts out really clever and charming, You’re a

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Disputed Space Review

Here's a review about a game that is more of a "let's play it for a few minutes and forget about it" then a normal game.Disputed Space is a fast-paced arcade action game, not a realistic simulator. Players pilot a small fighter ship that can fly in any direction (including backwards) while blasting enemy ships with lasers and missiles. That is what is written on their Steam page, and unfortunately, that's it... that is the whole game. It feels like something you would play in an Arcade 20 years ago, just try to get the highest score. I understand it's an

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Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide Review

Got bored of Left 4 Dead? You want to play something new but you just can't find that one game that fits your needs? Well, look no further because here is a review of Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide.The End Times are a prophesied apocalypse that will result in the destruction of the Warhammer fantasy world, as depicted in a series of novels and role-playing books. Dark portents are everywhere, with massive armies of monsters marching against the civilized Warhammer people. Whether the citizens like it or not, all they can do is fight to forestall the inevitable.As a result of

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JCB Pioneer: Mars Review

It's time for another review - this time it's about a new survival game JCB Pioneer: MarsJCB Pioneer: Mars is a survival game set, of course, on Mars. You’ve been sent as one of the first pioneers to colonize the Red Planet and make it sustainable for human life but something’s gone very wrong. Your landing pod crashed, your base is in tatters, the planet’s trying to kill you, and you’re on your own. There’s a basic JCB transport vehicle close by, so you’ll just have to hop in that, avoid all the incredibly deadly weather, get to the remains of

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Best Video Game Experiences in 2017

No. No. No I refuse.I stood by for far too long watching some of the most ludicrous awards give nominations to the weirdest games while other games went unnoticed, I stood by as Hollywood descended into bat shit insanity levels of Oscar Nomination and watched Dice and Golden Joystick award some at-best-questionable and at-worst-hilarious titles.No more.Here are my 2017 Best Video Game Experiences.Best Storytelling.PreyDivinity Original Sin IIShovel Knight: Specter of TormentRunner Up: PreyPrey was surprisingly awesome, the atmosphere alone presents an insanely thick universe for the player to live in, while the story is simple, the game provides a lot of

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Resident Evil 7 Review

RE7 has good atmosphere.But when you play Dark Souls and you see a huge monster, do you get frightened? Intimidated by the monster's size, or the amount of swords it has? I mean why wouldn't you, Dark Souls has great artstyle and it wants you to feel that way sometimes.I personally don't, I like seeing monsters as challenges, as targets. But even still you appreciate the effort and quality of the artstyle.Not with RE7 tho. Very little variation.The whole game takes place in 2 different environments, gross and decayed house in the swamps, and a very small section on a ship.The

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Divinity Original Sin 2 Review

Divinity 2 could very well be one of my favorite RPGs of all time. I played DOS1 prior to DOS2's launch and can say that while there are huge differences in the games DOS2 still adds so much to the table that you gotta appreciate it.DOS2 is a classic RPG, heavy on the story and dialogue with an immense character interaction between everything allowing the player to experience the story in several different perspectives as well as different smaller stories and side quests. On top of having a very cool combat system, turn based, and rewarding the player with tons of

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Coming Soon 10/2017

The tenth month is not really buffed up with titles, but it brings us some of the most interesting games of this gaming year.The wave of virtual entertainment that started last month continues in the next thirty days. There are even several games that could represent candidates for the game of the year, and there will also be several potential hits in their genres. What we expect in October is written below, I hope you will find something to go bankrupt for.PC GAMES03. 10. Forza Motorsport 7 03. 10. Battle Chasers: Nightwar 04. 10. EMPYRE: Lords of the Sea Gates 04.