Video Game Review: CounterSpy

Completing the game requires you to acquire 25 sets of plans, and each day brings a stiffer challenge, so you’ll want to balance out beefing up your resources with reaching the final mission. Collecting weapon and formula blueprints — formulas are single-level boosts than can be purchased and equipped before embarking on a mission — helps make you a deadlier spy, and you’ll also need money to purchase more ammo and additional guns once you’ve acquired the blueprints and formulas. It’s a pretty interesting system that gives you some wiggle room over how you approach the missions.

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Product Review: HyperX Cloud White Headphones

Ease of use and comfort are certainly important components of any headset, but they wouldn’t mean much if the audio quality didn’t deliver. Thankfully, the HyperX Cloud White has no such shortcomings with two 53mm drivers kicking out clear music and immersive gaming effects. We played a variety of genres, and the HyperX just kept outputting high-quality sound, whether it was booming explosions or the subtle creak of floorboards in the distance.

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Video Game Review: The Last of Us Remastered

On the off chance that you: (a) didn’t own a PS3, but do own a PS4; or (b) somehow never played The Last of Us before (and, once again, own a PS4), then feel free to stop reading now, drive directly to your nearest electronics retailer and purchase a copy. This is, without question, one of the best games (if not the best) from the last generation of consoles, and that fact hasn’t changed one iota.

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Blu-ray Review: Need For Speed

If the above synopsis of the plot doesn’t sound absurd, trust us when we tell you that in action the story arc is pretty ridiculous. You can spot every single twist and turn well in advance, and herefore the “emotional” rallying cry for the last 90-plus minutes falls flat — so much so that when watching a later scene we actually paused the film and asked, “Who’s Pete?” Granted, we remembered shortly thereafter, but it says something that the event didn’t stay with us.

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Video Game Review: Sniper Elite III

When Sniper Elite III gets it right, though, it’s legitimately a blast to play. Those moments when you quickly cap a couple of sentries under the audio cover of an airplane passing overhead. Or when you leave a bundle of dynamite on the road and snipe it from a distance just as a tank rolls up to it. It’s rare for a shooter to afford you the type of freedom this one does, and it helps make this the strongest entrant in the series to date.

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