Reviews Archive

  • Review: Ridge Racer (Vita)

    Review: Ridge Racer (Vita)

    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

    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: Nicktoons MLB 3D

    Review: Nicktoons MLB 3D

    Grown-up video game big leaguers have their usual baseball simulations to choose from at the start of this young MLB season. It’s either MLB 12: The Show or MLB 2K12. But what about the kiddie boppers looking for some make-believe baseball fun? 2K Play covers...

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  • Review: Angry Birds Space

    Review: Angry Birds Space

    Walking through any store these days, I find it hard to not be inundated by the phenomenon and marketing madness of Angry Birds.  That’s not to say that I haven’t spent more time than I really should admit to playing the various versions of those...

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  • Review: Mass Effect 3

    Review: Mass Effect 3

    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: Diabolical Pitch

    Review: Diabolical Pitch

    Diabolical Pitch is like that wild ‘n’ crazy rookie pitching prospect, the guy with the sick breaking ball that no batter can seem to touch. You bring him up to the majors for the Big Game—or in this case download him to your Xbox 360...

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  • Review: Sine Mora

    Review: Sine Mora

    Enemy fighters, towering leviathan robots and incessant rainbow bursts of deadly projectiles aren’t your biggest enemies in Sine Mora, the high-class shmup from the head-trip kids at Grasshopper Manufacture and Digital Reality. Not even close. No, public enemy one is the white digital timer at...

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  • Review: Start the Party! Save the World

    Review: Start the Party! Save the World

    When the PlayStation Move was first announced, plenty of comparisons were held against the glowing gaming accessory dismissing it as a “too late” Wii motion controller knockoff.  Along with those comparisons were many concerns that shovelware mini-game collections based around waggle controls would flood the...

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  • Review: Anomaly Warzone Earth

    Review: Anomaly Warzone Earth

    Tower defense games. They’re everywhere these days, streaming onto every machine capable of playing a video game in waves just like those faced in the games themselves. I love ‘em, but they are getting a little stale at this point. It’s time for something different,...

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  • Review: MLB 12: The Show (Vita)

    Review: MLB 12: The Show (Vita)

    Freshly mown grass. Fragrant, blossoming flowers. Hot dogs sizzling away on the grill. The first opened box of Cracker Jack. Oh yes, spring is in the air. Ahhh…do you smell it? With the coming of spring, baseball is back. Today marks the true Opening Day...

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