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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Review: Almost Half-Good
It’s a movie tie-in game for a film based on a blockbuster book series, so really, what did you expect of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince besides visual fan service? Originality? The Harry Potter movie games are pretty much interchangeable. Harry runs around Hogwarts in some abbreviated version of the film’s plot with a…
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Stoked DC Assaults K2
Bongfish’s follow-up to the Xbox 360 snowboarder Stoked has players barreling down the perilous slops of K2, the second largest mountain in the world. For every four people who have reached the summit of K2, one has died trying. Luckily, climbing will be the farthest thing from your mind in Stoked DC, which turns the…
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World Of Warcraft’s U.S. Sales Numbers Are Massive
Between collectors editions and normal retail boxes, the core game and expansions, the NPD reports that World of Warcraft has pushed 8.6 million units in the U.S. to date. Following up on the news that EA’s The Sims 3 had sold 800,000 copies in its first month, Gamasutra decided to find out how well the…
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Who Is The Mystery Darkside Chronicles Cover Character?
Capcom’s newly-released cover art for Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles contains a mysterious figure of mysterious mystery to puzzle players until it game comes out. While Leon, Claire, and Steve are clear enough of the cover of the next entry in the Resident Evil rail-shooter series for the Wii, who is that shadowy character in…
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Doc Louis Will End You
He made you, and he can break you. Here’s four new shots of the officially-named Doc Louis’s Punch-Out!!!, one of the rewards you can choose for being a Platinum member of Club Nintendo. Nintendo passed along these new screens in order to help anyone still struggling with the choice between this downloadable game and the…
By Mike Fahey - Reviews
Streets of Rage Micro Review: Ragin’ Hard
Porting a console classic to modern times is a no-brainer when it’s an impulse buy where half the purchase decision is fueled by nostalgia. But is Sega’s Streets of Rage worth it on the iPhone? Loved All the Rage: This is a straight-up emulation of the Genesis original, so of course everything you love and…
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Oh Yeah, Resident Evil 4 iPhone Now Available
Sneaky parasitically-controlled humans! Capcom has officially released Resident Evil 4 for the iPhone, placing the power of Leon Kennedy at your fingertips. After a bit of a false start, Leon returns, laying waste to countless infected Spanish people in this iPhone version of the PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Nintendo Wii masterpiece. A virtual joystick controls…
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Buy The Summer Of Arcade, Get $10 Back
Microsoft wants to pay you $10 for purchasing all five of the games showcased in this year’s Summer of Arcade promotion. U.S. Xbox 360 owners who shell out the 5600 Microsoft Points necessary to net them Splosion Man, Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, Turtles in Time Re-shelled, Trials HD, and Shadow Complex between now and August…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
EVE Online: The Butterfly Effect
Perhaps developer CCP hasn’t made it perfectly clear how big a part you could play in the universe of EVE Online. Perhaps this new video will rectify that oversight. This is an example of what could happen if you find yourself flying the sometimes friendly skies in EVE Online, CCP’s massively-multiplayer online space sim. I’ve…
By Mike Fahey