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  • Review: Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit

    Review: Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit

    It’s probably fortuitous—albeit unintentionally so—that Hell Yeah! Wrath of Dead Rabbit, a platformer that features a skeletal bunny tearing up the monsters of Hell with a jetpack buzzsaw to recover a set of compromising photos, released at about the same time that Kate Middleton and […]

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  • Review: Hotel Transylvania

    Review: Hotel Transylvania

    So it’s time for a little Halloween truth in marketing: The game based on the animated Adam Sandler vehicle Hotel Transylvania is a big ol’ misnomer. They really should have called it Hotel Castlevania. Okay, so that might have screwed the tie-in vibe—and brazenly violated […]

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  • TV Time with Aaron R. Conklin: James Bond: 007 Legends, Dishonored and Skylanders Giants

    TV Time with Aaron R. Conklin: James Bond: 007 Legends, Dishonored and Skylanders Giants

    VGBlogger scribe Aaron R. Conklin dropped in on Madison’s WMTV-15 to talk October games. James Bond: 007 Legends, Dishonored and Skylanders Giants get a look. WMTV – NBC15 Madison, Wisconsin:

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  • Review: NBA Baller Beats

    Review: NBA Baller Beats

    Well, you can say this for NBA Baller Beats: It’s the early leader in the clubhouse for most bizarre gaming concept of the year. It’s also the only game in history to come packaged with its very own Spalding basketball. Or, as it’s known here, […]

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  • Review: The Denpa Men: They Came By Wave

    Review: The Denpa Men: They Came By Wave

    If, like so many of us tend to do when faced with something unusual, you judged The Denpa Men: They Came By Wave based only on its looks and its B-list movie title, you’d be left with a “WTF?” impression that landed somewhere between Pokemon […]

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  • Review: LittleBigPlanet Vita

    Review: LittleBigPlanet Vita

    In retrospect, they could have just simply ported LittleBigPlanet 2. You know, gussied Sackboy’s signature PlayStation 3 adventure up a little with some obvious and user-friendly touch-related features, shipped it to market and called it day. Lord knows that the PlayStation Portable was littered with […]

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  • Review: Rock Band Blitz

    Review: Rock Band Blitz

    It’s not really about hitting all the notes. That alone is a pretty shocking thing to say about a music game developed by Harmonix, the company that helped litter our living rooms with enough plastic instruments to choke several mariachi bands. But it’s true, because […]

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  • Review: Kinect Star Wars

    Review: Kinect Star Wars

    A long time ago—okay, it was last year—in a galaxy, far, far away (or our own living rooms. Whatever.) Star Wars fans began to clamor for a motion-controlled videogame that would fulfill the fantastical wish we’d had since the first time we laid dewy eyes […]

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  • Review: Plants vs. Zombies Pinball

    Review: Plants vs. Zombies Pinball

    Casual plus casual equals—surprise!—several freaking lawns’ worth of casual in the new Plants Vs. Zombies downloadable table for Pinball FX2 and Zen Pinball 2, the result of a creative mashup between PopCap Games and Zen Studios, two of the most recognizable names in modern casual […]

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  • Review: Dust: An Elysian Tail

    Review: Dust: An Elysian Tail

    Microsoft calls its annual downloadable game event The Summer of Arcade, but this year, they could just as easily have called it The Summer of Artistic Side-Scroller. Two of this year’s five offerings fit the genre. We’ve already talked about the merits of Deadlight, which […]

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