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Andre Fourie

Andre is just old enough to remember playing Xenon2: Megablast on a 286 machine. While there are some painful memories of the school bully picking on him because he dressed up as the Prince of Persia, he is delirious (and sometimes a little delusional) about what he calls the "pure unblinkered awesomeness" of today's games. When not plugging products for his online PR clients, Andre is found cheerfully swinging his sword or brandishing his bayonet in the latest and greatest from the world of gaming.

Recent Posts

• Loot? Hello! Dungeon Siege 3! I want my loot!

  Review: Dungeon Siege 3. Since my school days, I've a secret guilty pleasure in staying home on rainy winter Saturday nights to hack-n-slash my way through hordes of evil baddies, collecting treasure upon treasure. The game that started all that? Diablo. It had everything - graphics, storyline and, most importantly, a never-ending stream of loot. Many a happy weekend was spent crawling dungeons, looking for a fight with Baal and then having an epic throw-down where I cast his scaly red ...
  
  

• F.E.A.R. 3 – F*%$ing Run! Ruuuuuun! Aaaaagh!

  FEAR 3 REVIEW (PC) - Good horror takes you on an exploration of your own fears and doubts. It takes you by the heart and drags you down to the dark places of your soul, forcing you to face your inner demons or end up broken and scarred for life. FEAR 3 took me to a dark place - a place where well-armed and well-organised soldiers, tough as they are, were merely of passing interest. This dark place wasn't inhabited by ...
  
  

• Gettin’ down n dirrty in Dirt 3

  Review: Dirt 3 - The concept of flow can be described as a "single-minded immersion where the emotions are not just contained and channelled but positive, energised and aligned with the task at hand." It occurs when a higher-than-average challenge is met by your slightly-above-average skills, skills you apply wholeheartedly and without a sense of self. It's a feeling most surfers know - a joyous escape from self-awareness that challenges, excites and rewards. Many games include elements of flow in ...
  
  

• Fight Night Champion

  Review: Still boxing, but now with added drama and emotion (and plenty blood and guts) in this Xbox pugalistic sportfest with a boxer's fighting heart. I've long been a fan of the Fight Night series. It's a standard part of our Friday night guy get-togethers, where groups of us would braai, have a few beers and compete for ultimate bragging rights in epic Tyson-Holyfield throwdowns. When I first loaded Fight Night Champion, the latest in EA's boxing franchise, I wondered how ...
  
  

• Fallout New Vegas – Honest Hearts DLC

  Review: Travel to the murderous wastelands of Zion in Utah in this PC game that is dark, desolate and a little dreary. Honest Hearts follows you as you travel to the Zion National Park in Utah with the Happy Trails Trading Group. Things don't turn out quite so happy for your companions. They're all killed within the first few minutes of entering the new environment, leaving you alone in a beautiful landscape of canyon and river and (for once!) drinkable water. ...