TABLE OF CONTENTS
January 2010
FEATURES
- How Cover Shaped Gaming's Last Decade
by Brian Ashcraft - Are Game Companies Spoiling Their Own Games?
by Luke Plunkett - Bayonetta Is Not Too Sexy, But Maybe Too Serious
by Lisa Foiles - Why A Man Plays Mario
by Stephen Totilo - The 2009 eBay Holiday Video Game Grey Market Report
by Mike Fahey - Kotaku's Game of the Year
Uncharted 2 vs. Assassin's Creed II vs. Demon's Souls
REVIEWS
- Assassin's Creed II: The Battle of Forli Micro-Review: An Un-Macchiavelian Plan
- Matt Hazard: Blood Bath and Beyond Micro-Review: A Bloody Fun Hazard-Time
- Muscle March Micro-Review: Flex Crimes
- Mass Effect 2 Review: Once More Unto The Breach
- Alienware Area-51 m15x Laptop Review: It Ain't Heavy, It's My Laptop
- Serious Sam HD Review: This Time It's Really Serious
- Dark Void Zero Micro-Review: Classic, Focused Fun
- Dark Void Review: Innovation In A Void
- Pocket God Micro-Review: Heaven or Hell?
- Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth Micro-Review: Something M2 Whipped Up
- VVVVVV Micro-review: AAAAAAH!!!
- Army of Two: The 40th Day Review: Co-Op Shooting At A Crossroads
- Trajectile Micro-Review: Testing Your Talent For Precision Demolition
- Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot Micro-Review: A Very Long Engagement
- Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers Review: The Big Book Of FF Activities
- Bayonetta Review: To Infinite Climax Action And Beyond
- Darksiders Review: Harbinger Of The Apocopylypse
- 0 Day: Attack on Earth Micro-Review: Where's Will Smith When You Need Him?
PREVIEWS & IMPRESSIONS
- WarioWare D.I.Y. Has Made Me A User Generated Content Convert
- Split Second Preview: Happy With Second Place
- Another Impossible Preview
- MLB 2K10 Preview: Battling Back to Even the Count
- Assassin's Creed II Discovery iPhone Preview: Sonic-y
- God of War III's Wildest Moment (So Far) Explained
- BioShock 2 Preview: Something Bad Is About To Happen
- Hell Hath No Fury Like Video Game's Take on Dante's Inferno
- Hands On With Apple's iPad, Everything But The Games
- Hands On With Apple's iPad, Just The Games
- MAG: First-Day Impressions of a Burgeoning War
- Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days: Eyes-On With The Best Worst Camera Ever
- Razer Reinvents, Perfects the Xbox 360 Controller
- Hands-On With Street Fighter's Juri Or: How I Stopped Playing Ken and Learned to Love Da Bomb
- Scrap Metal Hands-On: Calling All Twisted Metal Fans
- Hands-On With Unreal Engine On The iPhone, Nvidia Tegra
- Super Street Fighter IV FightStick Tournament Edition S Hands-on
- More Hands-on Details From Xbox 360's Game Room
COLUMNS
WELL PLAYED by Brian Crecente
- CES 2010 Aims to Resurrect 3D
- Video Games Survive Recession, But At What Cost?
- Gaming: The Fifth Network
- Game Developers See Potential, Not Gold Rush in Apple's iPad
STICK JOCKEY by Owen Good
- The Replacements, Still Replaced in Video Games
- The Problem(s) with Olympic Video Games
- If It's In the Name, It's In the Game
- Can Sports Video Games Win One for the Little Guys?
- A Picture Worth More Than Words
TIM ROGERS