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Long the 800-lb gorilla of handheld gaming, the DS is in its twilight, besieged by smartphones and pushed aside by…

The loading screen is always the same in Assassin's Creed. Your character stands, clad in the robes of his people,…

You may have missed it this year amid all the arguing about whether Nintendo should bail out of making gaming…

Some games are defined by a single place; others by a single character. Still other games are defined by action, by…

Poor Luigi. Mario’s lanky counterpart is most often defined not by his own merits, but by his proximity to his elder…

The Xbox consoles are not popular in Japan. That doesn't mean those game machines lack hardcore fans. They certainly…

At this point, there may be no hands-off preview I'm less willing to trust than an Assassin's Creed demo. Last year, …

Life is pretty damn unfair. Sometimes that means you'll find yourself in a situation with no solutions. Sometimes…

The excellent, expansive Batman: Arkham City was always going to be a tough act to follow, and Batman: Arkham…

For the past three weeks, Tomodachi Collection: New Life has been the best-selling game in Japan—and in its first…