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  • Review: Ridge Racer (Vita)

    Review: Ridge Racer (Vita)

    Posted on April 18, 2012 | No Comments
    This is a modern arcade racing game that ships with three tracks. Assuming you are reading this relatively close to release and are presently standing in front of a bargain bin looking for advice via a smartphone on whether or not to buy the game […]

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  • Review: Waveform

    Review: Waveform

    Posted on April 13, 2012 | No Comments
    This game continues the solid tradition of accurate labeling.  Rather than try to be clever or cute, Eden Industries has summed up what you’ll be doing in the title to this game.  Other than some level selection, players will spend their time in Waveform messing […]

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  • Review: Mass Effect 3

    Review: Mass Effect 3

    Posted on April 10, 2012 | No Comments
    This is a review of Return of the Jedi. Another way to encapsulate that idea might have been to write that the big problem in reviewing a game like Mass Effect 3 (“ME3”), is to say that all of the problems that existed for movie […]

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  • Review: Mass Effect: Infiltrator

    Review: Mass Effect: Infiltrator

    Posted on April 3, 2012 | No Comments
    Many RPGs have fiction tie-ins.  Part of the appeal of any good role-playing game is a detailed setting that serves as the backdrop of the characters’ actions, hopefully ones chosen by the player.  Since fully fleshing out a world cannot always be accomplished with narrative, […]

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  • Review: Wizorb

    Review: Wizorb

    Posted on April 2, 2012 | No Comments
    There is a difference between ripping an idea off and taking something and making it your own.  One need not look far in the video game business to see examples of developers, primarily in the mobile market, preying on and playing off the success of […]

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  • App Review: Mass Effect 3 Datapad

    App Review: Mass Effect 3 Datapad

    Posted on March 20, 2012 | No Comments
    With this game tie-in you get marginally more than you pay for.  The Mass Effect 3 Datapad app for iOS is a product that does not add much to the Mass Effect 3 experience, but it is free.  To have any worth to most users, […]

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  • Review: Army Corps of Hell

    Review: Army Corps of Hell

    Posted on March 14, 2012 | No Comments
    It seems like every launch of a new system has a game that is a little weird.  Amongst the usual suspects and established franchises that tell people that they can play the games they already love on their shiny new hardware–and the Vita is nothing […]

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  • Review: Warp

    Review: Warp

    Posted on March 1, 2012 | No Comments
    The telefrag: a convention of some first-person shooters, particularly older ones, where one thing being teleported into the same place as another causes death.  What was at one point largely a way to force players not to stand in a spawn point with a shotgun, […]

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  • Review: Dear Esther

    Review: Dear Esther

    Posted on February 17, 2012 | 2 Comments
    Some people want things to be more than what they are.  Philosophical fans will look for a deeper meaning in baseball, an expression of life in what is actually a simple diversion.  Women sometimes think that what was just a random tryst was really a […]

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  • Review: Q.U.B.E.

    Review: Q.U.B.E.

    Posted on February 16, 2012 | No Comments
    Some games try to accomplish a great deal and sometimes they feel like an enthralled Bilbo Baggins (“Sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”)  To translate from geek, some products try to be everything to everyone and come off as boring or […]

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