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About Andrew Crews

I worked at a warehouse. Then I worked in radio. Now I tweet for a living. I also run a web site at ChainMonster.com and I write reviews for XBLAFans.com. If you like my work and would like to work together on another project, then feel free to email me. I'll look over any offer. Email info can be found on the staff list. Twitter: @twixprintmatic
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Dungeon Defenders Foundries and Forges (level 2) guide

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Strategy breakdown

The first four waves will all come from all doors and will be fairly easy to maintain. Only a few of the larger Orc enemies will be …
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Dungeon Defenders Magus Quarters (level 3) guide

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Strategy breakdown

The first two waves will be business as usual, focus on the larger Orc enemies and make sure you have the three choke points covered with ample …
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Dungeon Defenders Alchemical Laboratory (level 4) guide

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Strategy breakdown

The first few waves will be business as usual. Find the larger Orc enemies and make them your priority. Beef up choke points 2 and 3 as …
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Toy Soldiers: Cold War complete guide
13 years ago

Toy Soldiers: Cold War complete guide

The following Toy Soldiers: Cold War Guide is a culmination of the efforts of Andrew Crews, John Laster, John Drawdy, Todd Schlickbernd, and Zac Lace. Special thanks goes to Signal Studios for their advice and guidance.

Toy Soldiers: Cold War was released on Xbox Live Arcade on August 17, 2011, featuring an intense mixture of tower defense and action gameplay elements. If you haven’t purchased the game yet, we highly recommend checking out our Toy Soldiers: Cold War review. Make sure to bookmark this page once you have downloaded the game for your go to source for all things related to Toy Soldiers: Cold War. Read More

Toy Soldiers: Cold War review (XBLA)
13 years ago

Toy Soldiers: Cold War review (XBLA)

Toy Soldiers: Cold War was developed by Signal Studios and published by Microsoft. It was released on August 17, 2011 as part of Summer of Arcade for 1200MSP. A copy was provided for review purposes.

About two years ago, Signal Studios released the original Toy Soldiers on Xbox Love Arcade and it has since been one of the top selling XBLA games to date. With that success, a sequel was inevitable. Now, two years later, Toy Soldiers: Cold War sets out to improve on a formula that was pretty damn good to begin with.

Toy Soldiers: Cold War is an action tower defense game where you play as an American army of toy soldiers who are trying to keep the Soviet forces from invading their toy box. Aside from basic tower defense elements, Toy Soldiers: Cold War also contains many user-controlled vehicles, special abilities and the option to manually use each tower/emplacement. These additions make Toy Soldiers: Cold War a hectic, action-packed game that allows gamers to play it however they please. For players of the original Toy Soldiers, this is no surprise. But if you’re a classic tower defense gamer, you better prepare for an incredible change of pace that adds up to countless hours of fun. Read More

XBLIG Monthly Roundup: July 2011
13 years ago

XBLIG Monthly Roundup: July 2011

XBLIG Monthly Roundup is a feature of five of the best Indie games from the past month of releases on the marketplace. There’s a lot to sift through on the XBLIG marketplace, so let us tell you what we found during our daily rounds. These are some of the best games that XBLIG has to offer for the month of July, 2011: Read More

Toy Soldiers: Cold War achievement guide
13 years ago

Toy Soldiers: Cold War achievement guide

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This guide is geared towards helping gamers unlock all 20 achievements for the full 200 gamerscore in Toy Soldiers: Cold War. For more information about full level guides, walkthroughs, weapon guides, golden arcade guides and more, make sure you check out our Toy Soldiers: Cold War guide hub. Read More

Toy Soldiers: Cold War Golden Arcade guide

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Having trouble finding all the golden arcades? Then check out our video showing off all 11 golden arcade locations.
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Contest: Section 8: Prejudice game with devs night
13 years ago

Contest: Section 8: Prejudice game with devs night

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This Sunday the XBLAFans staff will be teaming up with the fine people over at TimeGate Studios for the Game with Devs night. So get your questions ready for the TimeGate developers or the XBLAFans staff. The event will start at 5PM EST and run through 8PM EST on Sunday, July 31. Make sure you send a friend request or game invite to one of the following gamertags in order to join in on the fun: Read More

XBLAFans featured on Rad On The Web

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Our good friend Carlos Rodela was kind enough to feature our site on Rad On The Web this week. Rad On The Web is a weekly web show that …
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