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Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth Micro-Review: Something M2 Whipped Up
Konami goes back to Castlevania’s roots with Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth, as the series joins Gradius and Contra to get the Konami ReBirth treatment. Once again, developer M2 takes a long, hard look at a classic Konami franchise and produces a retro-styled rehash. This time around the game is Castlevania: The Adventure, the 1989 Game…
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Heavy Rain’s ESRB Rating Spoils Everything
The ESRB has given Quantic Dream’s Heavy Rain an M for Mature rating, explaining the game’s drug use, violence, horror, and sexual situations in ridiculous detail. Needless to say, spoilers ahead. Here’s the obligatory paragraph I put in between the lead and the actual rating listing, in order to make sure no one accidentally reads…
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Aliens VS. Predator Kill Moves Are A Tad Bit Graphic
Actually they aren’t too bad, provided you turn the sound down a little and keep your hand away from the pause button. Pause is not your friend here. It’s hard to tell who at developer Rebellion is having more fun making this game – the animation guys, figuring out creative new ways to mangle 3D…
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DeathSmiles Smiles On North America
The top-selling shoot-em up of this console generation is coming to North America, as Aksys Games announces a U.S. release for Cave’s brilliant Xbox 360 gothic lolita shooter, DeathSmiles. DeathSmiles is a scrolling shooter, but instead of piloting spaceships through unknown galaxies, you fly young angels and their demonic familiars through the gothic world of…
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This Week In XBLA: Death By Cube And Vandal Hearts
Square Enix‘s blood-filled box shooter Death by Cube is joined by the prequel to Konami’s 1996 tactical role-playing game Vandal Hearts to form this week’s new additions to the Xbox Live Arcade. Robots shooting cubes filled with blood – this is the perfect way to describe Square Enix’s new twin-stick shooter, Death by Cube, which…
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Here’s What You Get For Preordering Skate 3
EA’s Skate 3 might not come with a high tech plastic skateboard controller like its chief “competition,” but putting money down on the sequel does earn you this nifty exclusive skate park. Now that I think about it, “Doesn’t come with a high tech plastic skateboard controller” could actually be a selling point. Easily as…
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Hellgate To Reopen In The West, For Real This Time
Just when you thought North America and Europe were safe from the invasion of hell spawn, Korean online gaming publisher HanbitSoft goes and acquires international publishing rights for Hellgate from Namco Bandai, and all hell breaks loose. Yes, this time they mean it. HanbitSoft first announced plans to reignite Hellgate: London in November of 2008,…
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The Nintendo Download: Everybody Let’s Muscle March
Men (and bears) in tight bikini briefs invade the Nintendo Download this week, bringing Dark Void Zero, Starship Defense, The Secret of Shinobi, and more along for the wild ride. Namco Bandai’s Muscle March (500 Wii points) is one of the oddest titles to hit the WiiWare service so far. Thieves have made off with…
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