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    Holiday Game Review Madness

    By Brian Crecente, 1:00 PM on Mon Nov 17 2008, 50,005 views (Edit, to draft, un-top, Slurp)

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    It's November and the number of high-end titles hitting store shelves is reaching the saturation point. What's a gamer to do? More importantly, what's a gamer on a budget to do? Well, we'll start rolling out our platform-centric gift guides later this week, but until then why not check out our reviews for some of the bigger titles and make up your own mind about where you plan on plunking down the cash.

    Hit the jump for a break-down of what we've reviewed so far and tell us what you're putting on your holiday list. We'll make sure to update this list as we move forward:


    Gift Guides
    The iPhone Gaming Gift Guide
    The Playstation 3 Gift Guide
    The Wii Holiday Gift Guide
    The Xbox 360 Gift Guide
    The Portable Holiday Gift Guide
    The PC Gift Guide
    The Import Gaming Gift Guide

    Cross Platform
    Rock Band 2 Review: Second Verse Same As The First (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PS2)
    TNA Impact! Review: Squandering Potential (Xbox 360, PS3, PS2)
    LEGO Batman The Video Game Review: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii, DS, PSP, PC)
    Fracture Review: Breaking New Ground (Xbox 360, PS3)
    Midnight Club Los Angeles Review: The Fast And The Infuriating (Xbox 360, PS3)
    Dead Space Review: True Stories Of Space Horror (Xbox 360, PS3, PC)
    Fallout 3 Review: Wasting Away Again In Radiationville (Xbox 360, PS3, PC)
    Spider-Man: Web Of Shadows Review: A Tangled Web (Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii, DS, PSP, PC)
    Guitar Hero World Tour Review: This is Guitar Hero (Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii)
    Mirror’s Edge Review: Leaps of Faith End in Splat (Xbox 360, PS3, PC)
    Call of Duty: World at War Review: The Modern Warfare Effect (Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii, DS, PC)
    Far Cry 2 Review: Hurry Boy, It's Waiting There For You (Xbox 360, PS3, PC)
    The Force Unleashed Review: As If Millions of Star Wars Fans Suddenly Cried Out (Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii, DS, PSP)
    Tom Clancy's EndWar Review: Vocal Annihilation (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, DS, PSP, PC)
    Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe Review: Finish Him (Xbox 360, PS3)
    Left 4 Dead Review: 2 Good 2 B 4gotten (Xbox 360, PC)
    Need for Speed: Undercover Review: You're Not Good, and You're Not Bad (Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii, DS, PSP, PC)
    Tomb Raider: Underworld Review: Lara Croft’s Uncharted Adventure (Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii, DS, PC)
    Prince Of Persia Review: Like Sands Through The Hourglass (Xbox 360, PS3)

    PC
    Spore Review: Evolutionary Creationism
    Civ IV: Colonization Review: Once More, With(out) Feeling
    World Of Goo Review: Fun Bounces Off Me And Sticks To You
    Sacred 2: Fallen Angel Review: Ancaria At Its Prime
    Wrath Of The Lich King Review: We Come From The Land Of The Ice And Snow

    PS3
    Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest For Booty Review: Short Of Greatness
    LittleBigPlanet Review: Play, Create... Share?
    MotorStorm: Pacific Rift Review: A Festival of Mayhem
    Resistance 2 Review: Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore
    Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm Review: A Pretty Good Start

    PSP
    Yggdra Union: We'll Never Fight Alone Review: A Battle Hard Won
    LocoRoco 2 Review: Arming The Mui Mui

    DS
    Personal Trainer: Cooking Review: Gotta Eat Them All
    Metal Slug 7 Review: Once More Into The Tank

    Wii
    Wario Land: Shake It! Review: Shakin' To The Core
    Wii Music Review: Jam With The Bland
    de Blob Review: Painting A Very Pretty Picture
    Animal Crossing: City Folk Review: Crossing Over Again
    Skate It Review: Suck It
    Castlevania Judgment Review: You Don't Belong In This World

    Xbox 360
    Too Human Review: Dyack's Human Too
    Castle Crashers Review: Hack & Slash & Fun
    Tales Of Vesperia Review - A New Chapter Unfolds
    Viva Piñata: Trouble In Paradise Review: Maximum Candiosity
    Warhammer Battle March Review: Marching Backwards
    Portal: Still Alive Review: This Is Barely A Triumph
    Fable II Review: A Feast Of Burden
    Gears of War 2 Review: Bigger, Better and More... Poignant
    Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts Review: Aw, Nuts
    The Last Remnant Review: Strategically Sound, Technically Flawed

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    First Two Days Dragon Quest IX Sales Tally Is In

    On July 11, the eagerly awaited Dragon Quest IX went on sale in Japan. According to Famitsu publisher Enterbrain, the game racked up 2.34 million in sales. PS2 title Dragon Quest VIII sold 2.23 million in its first week. More »
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    You Too Can Experience The Dragon Quest IX Launch!

    You've no doubt heard some blogger or another refer to a Dragon Quest release date as "national holidays in Japan". This isn't really true. Today, for example, was not a holiday. More »

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