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Reviewing the all-rounder that is the Lumia 620

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The Lumia 620, Nokia’s mid to low range Windows Phone 8 handset, is a pretty attractive prospect: [It’s] not that threatening a smartphone. Its svelte size combined with the live tiles make it easy to use for those starting out on a smartphone path, and while the smartphone geeks of the world aren’t going to throw away their existing handsets, I can see a lot of them picking up the Lumia 620 just to see what all the Windows Phone fuss is about, and use it as a second handset. If you want the definition of an good all-round smartphone

Forget Aliens: Colonial Marines, there is only one true Aliens video game… Total Conversion

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Lots of fury over this review of the long-awaited ‘Aliens: Colonial Marines’ as the majority of reviews come in at the 40% mark, with a few outliers in the mainstream gaming press giving the title around 90% (and publications like EGM Now hosting an advert for the game ‘Aliens: Colonial Marines’ behind a glowing review of ‘Aliens: Colonial Marines’), but once again I come back to a simple rule of thumb about any game developed around the ‘Aliens’ franchise. There is no finer first person gaming experience than Aliens:TC, the total conversion Doom level.

Don’t call it a Galaxy S3, you’ll make it mad

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Steve Litchfield on the Samsung ATIV S:  Navigation aside though, the extra bells and whistles of Nokia’s software additions can be largely matched (or at least equivalenced) with a few timely downloads from the Store on the ATIV S, making the latter’s unique selling points – its large and pleasing screen, its large capacity, removeable battery, its microSD expansion and flexibility, its use of faux-metal materials for a premium look (if not feel) – perhaps the critical factors in deciding which Windows Phone 8 handset to buy. Samsung has done a good job with the ATIV S’s hardware, producing something

Now we have Carcassonne on Xbox Live, can we get Catan?

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My review of Carcassonne is up on All About Windows Phone: Sometimes there comes along a smartphone game that simply enchants me when I first run it, and it never lets go. There are a lot of games that can do that in the first ten minutes of play, but for a title to be really special it needs to retain that feeling in the following hours and days. Carcassonne is one such title. Its availability on Xbox Live has been promised since the start of the year, and now it’s here, I’ve let out a little cheer.