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Inside Mac Games has posted a review of TransGaming's FIFA Soccer 12 for Mac. The Soccer sim features a new player impact physics engine, improved AI, tactical defending, and precision dribbling.

Here's an excerpt:

Little touches in the game help you overcome your opposition. If you control one player throughout the game your other AI teammates will help you take possession. A very nice fall back if you have no idea what you are doing. You can also call the ball over if you think you have an opening. This provides a range of control for more experienced and less experienced players. Other assists in the game include discrete yellow arrows on the controlled player showing where you should be on the field. People of little soccer experience will often find themselves chasing the ball rather then holding back in the correct position allocated for them. With these yellow arrows you can identify how far away you are from where you should be, while still having the freedom to do whatever you desire.

IMG Review: FIFA Soccer 12

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Macgamestore.com has announced a new addition to its roster of titles available for purchase from its webstore. Playrix's Brickshooter Egypt challenges puzzle fans to solve the brain teasing brick puzzles spanning more than sixty levels.

Unravel the mysteries of ancient hieroglyphs that will help you restore the glorious pyramids. A totally new brain-teasing puzzle experience across 60+ exciting levels with stunning graphics and amazing sound is what Brickshooter Egypt has to offer. Truly original, innovative and extremely addictive gameplay will keep you moving these bricks for hours on end. Crack the intriguing puzzles of the past and unlock the secrets of the pharaohs.

Features:

• Unlimited replayability
  
• 6 ancient monuments to rebuild
  
• 60 captivating levels of revolutionary new puzzle experience
  
• Original gameplay
  
• Stunning ancient Egypt-style graphics and music
  
• Difficulty increases with 2nd and 3rd replay

Brickshooter Egypt

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The LEGO Group has announced a Welcome Back Weekend event for its LEGO Universe MMO. This weekend players whose membership has expired will have the chance to return to the full game and experience both old and new content. LEGO Universe allows players to create their own custom LEGO minifigure and venture forth to combat the Maelstrom, join with friends to complete missions, and collect bricks to build imaginative creations.

Has your LEGO® Universe Membership expired? Then this is your chance to get right back into the action and build, battle and have fun with friends.

To celebrate our 1 year Celebration of LEGO Universe, we would like to invite you to a "Welcome Back Weekend" where all previous players get the chance to get back and play in the full game, meeting with old and new friends and to try out all the new worlds and updates.

• Help Sensei Wu battle against the evil skeletons in the recent world of Ninjago
  
• Race your friends at the challenging Dragonmaw Chasm Race Track in forbidden valley
  
• Tame the new Earth Dragon Pet in the Ninjago Monastery

See you in the game

LEGO Universe Welcome Back Weekend

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Examiner.com has posted a new review of Iceberg Interactive's Nuclear Dawn. The game combines first person shooter and real time strategy gameplay, allowing players to take the role of soldiers in a war-torn post-apocalyptic world.

From the review:

Combining the FPS and RTS genres isn't new, but it is something that rarely achieves commercial or technical success. More often than not, marrying an RTS and FPS together ends in a game that gets half of the formula half-right. Thankfully, Nuclear Dawn succeeds on both fronts quite well—and with continued support and development should have a radiant (or radiated) future ahead of it.

Examiner.com: Nuclear Dawn Review

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