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Crazy Taxi: Expert hints and tips

Crazy Taxi hints and tips

Crazy Taxi has revved its way onto Xbox 360 and PS3, and to celebrate we’ve listed expert tips from one of the top-ranking Crazy Taxi players in the world.

Read on to find out how to drive faster, get the highest fares from your passengers and achieve that legendary ‘Crazy’ $30,000+ score.

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Six survival horror games worth playing

It’s Halloween – what better way to celebrate than to present some classic survival horror games that have been overshadowed by Resident Evil games of late?

Here are six of our favourite and most traditional survival horror games.

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Video: Super Mario Bros glitches

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Mario, Nintendo has released a video containing glitches from the original NES Super Mario Bros.

We never experienced any of these bugs when we played the original, but knew the 1UP trick existed. View the video above to take a trip down glitchy memory lane.

Crazy Taxi: what happened to the soundtrack?

Crazy Taxi Soundtrack

Nothing has divided opinion over a game’s soundtrack quite like Sega’s Crazy Taxi.

The Dreamcast classic is making its way to PSN and Xbox Live next month, and the music has changed yet again. We get crazy at Sega in this feature.

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Duke Nukem Forever back in development

Duke Nukem Forever

The Duke is finally back. After more than 13 years since it was first announced, Duke Nukem Forever will finally be making its way to Xbox 360, PS3 and PC next year.

The game is in development at Gearbox and will be published by 2K Games. A playable version of the game featured at this year’s Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) in Seattle from September 3rd to 5th. We’ve got the details and trailer here.

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Mega Man 2 Guide

Mega Man 2 guide

Mega Man 2 is an absolute classic and it’s still highly playable today – whether you have the NES, iPhone or PC emulator versions of the game.

It can also be ridiculously hard, especially if you’re new to the Mega Man series, but it’s equally rewarding and well worth a punt. We list our top five tips and provide a walkthrough to every level and boss in our complete Mega Man 2 Guide.

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GamesTM’s top 100 video games

Games TM

What’s a post about a games magazine doing on Leet? Is it the mark of some kind of sponsorship deal, a hate tirade or a perhaps a love letter?

Unashamedly, it’s the latter. I learnt some valuable writing lessons at GamesTM – a monthly magazine which just published its 100th issue – and felt inclined to spill some memories here, along with its top 100 games of all time.

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What if every game had a super-easy mode?

It would probably be something like what’s in that video above. And if Nintendo had its way, this could well happen in a few year’s time!

MCM Expo first play: War For Cybertron (360)

Ever since Activision released the first video footage of Transformers: War For Cybertron, gamers and trans-fans alike immediately compared it to Gears Of War.

WFC is a third person shooter but is more arcade-like in it’s execution. There’s less emphasis on cover and more on the shooting aspect (think along the lines of Global Defence Force on the PS2).

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Arcade: the classic cabinets

I, Adam White, may have made the outrageous claim that Rambo: Arcade was the best arcade game ever made. It must have been the euphoric sensation of being John Rambo.

To right my monstrous oversight of such classics as Duck Hunt and House of the Dead, here at Leet Games Blog we take a look at some of the more innovative and intriguing arcade machines – starting with the old school originals.

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