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Polished, engaging gameplay and a stellar port make Borderlands 2 one of the best games available on the Mac today.

The basic conceit of the Borderlands series is simple: take the classic action RPG formula of endless monsters, randomly generated…

Black Ops is an adrenaline-fulled rollercoaster of a game, so long as the technical issues don’t get you down.

First released in 2010, Black Ops was the best-selling video game of all time, (in fact, beating its own predecessor,…

Killing Floor is a game that is deliberately demented. It takes the derivative zombie shooting FPS formula and mixes it in with a diverse array of weapons and a deranged cast of enemies. Though sometimes repetitive and unforgiving, you’ll still find no shortage of AK-47s, chainsaws, flamethrowers and more while killing almost every zombie imaginable: fat zombies, thin zombies, invisible zombies and spider-zombies just to name a few.

The game was originally a total-conversion mod for the game “Unreal Tournament 2004” and was released in 2005. A few…

Billed as “the spiritual successor to System Shock”*, Bioshock features weak gunplay, heavy scripting, and not particularly inspired RPG elements. Forget all of that though, because the art direction, sound and lighting design and storyline make it a wonderful experience, and worthy of its predecessor.

Bioshock has one of the best openings of any video game ever, so I’m not going to spoil it here.…

Borderlands takes the Diablo gameplay of mindless destruction and endless looting, then gives it guns and vehicles and puts it…