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  • Review: Party Wave

    Review: Party Wave

    Posted on August 21, 2012 | No Comments
    It seems only natural, after creating the most memorable fantasy RPG series ever (Final Fantasy) and the Wii’s last big RPG (The Last Story), that legendary designer Hironobu Sakaouchi would follow it up…. …with an iOS game about surfing. Hey, when you’ve effectively cemented your […]

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  • Review: Deadlight

    Review: Deadlight

    Posted on August 1, 2012 | 2 Comments
    By now, you pretty much know the drill: They never sleep or get tired, so you’d better run. And then run some more. And then run again. We’ve had this particular page of the Zombie Survival Kit burned into our brains since the Night of […]

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  • Review: Wreckateer

    Review: Wreckateer

    Posted on July 26, 2012 | No Comments
    After flicking my ballista to launch the first stone toward the first castle in Wreckateer, my first thought wasn’t “Hey, it’s like a first-person version of Angry Birds!” No, it was this: Wow, this would have made a great Kinect launch game. Of course, it’s […]

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  • Review: Pokémon Conquest

    Review: Pokémon Conquest

    Posted on July 25, 2012 | No Comments
    I swore I was done with Pokémon. I managed to survive the stage of my childrens’ lives where Nintendo’s ubiquitous pocket monsters were the engouement du jour. I collected several bazillion of them myself over the course of countless versions of the games, even though […]

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  • Review: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD

    Review: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD

    Posted on July 18, 2012 | 1 Comment
    Before Call of Duty became a combat-themed cash cow, Activision rode a very different franchise down the rocky road to sick profitability. This particular ride had four polyurethane wheels, rode low to the ground and was often tricked out with enough logos/stickers to make a […]

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  • Review: Marvel Pinball 3D

    Review: Marvel Pinball 3D

    Posted on July 17, 2012 | 1 Comment
    If the measure of a game’s success is defined by whether it makes you want more—as in more content, more sequels, more anything–then count the Nintendo 3DS port of Marvel Pinball as another score for Zen Studios. This isn’t quite the same Marvel Pinball you […]

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  • Review: Gravity Rush

    Review: Gravity Rush

    Posted on July 10, 2012 | No Comments
    Kat, the spunky and sleek heroine of Japan Studio’s Gravity Rush, is afflicted with video gaming’s most overused plot device—she can’t remember who she is. But Kat’s got something much better than memory and self-awareness: a magical cat named Dusty that gives her the power […]

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  • Review: Lollipop Chainsaw

    Review: Lollipop Chainsaw

    Posted on June 15, 2012 | 3 Comments
    Nobody will ever accuse Suda51, the twisted mind responsible for Killer7, No More Heroes and Shadows of the Damned, of subtlety. Videogame development’s equivalent of Quentin Tarantino has never met an F-bomb, decapitated head or crimson shower of blood he wouldn’t showcase seven times over. […]

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  • Review: Mortal Kombat Vita

    Review: Mortal Kombat Vita

    Posted on June 12, 2012 | No Comments
    It used to be that handheld ports suffered from a serious condition of what George Costanza would neurotically have described as “shrinkage.” The price of being able to play your favorite games on the go usually meant a certain level of sacrifice—maybe the multiplayer went […]

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  • Review: Mario Tennis Open

    Review: Mario Tennis Open

    Posted on June 1, 2012 | No Comments
    Mario is no Novak “Djoker” Djokovic, and nobody’s mistaking Princess Peach for the second coming of Maria Sharapova, but that hasn’t prevented the Mushroom Kingdom crew from mashing it up on the tennis court. As far back as the freaking Virtual Boy, Nintendo’s stars have […]

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