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Monday Night Combat Review: The Happy Warriors
Turrets. I can’t stop building and upgrading them in Monday Night Combat. Oh, they do a great job mowing down bots and other players. But it’s really because I’m a Southern boy and a born sucker for Pitgirl’s saucy accent. Monday Night Combat, the class-based shooter from Uber Entertainment and the latest “Summer of Arcade”…
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Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game Review: Four-Player Fan Service
In Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, the hero has to fight his girlfriend’s seven evil ex-boyfriends. In Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game, Scott and his friends have to fight The World. By the World I mean Ontario, which is the world as far as fans of the six volume graphic…
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ReviewsMadden NFL 11 Review: A Run For Your Money
Madden NFL 11 arrives tomorrow to the marketing drumbeat of simpler, quicker and deeper. Laudable design goals, but for a game that’s been a living room ritual for a quarter of a century, let’s also ask, is it more fun? Yes. Though we’ve heard all spring and summer about Madden’s new play-calling, faster game times…
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Castlevania Puzzle: Encore Of The Night Review: Alucard’s Puzzle Quest
Castlevania Puzzle: Encore of the Night takes the classic Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and transforms it into a puzzle role-playing game. Can they do that? I consider Castlevania: Symphony of the Night to be one of the greatest 2D action role-playing games ever created. It has everything: Responsive controls, an engaging storyline, Metroid-style item-based…
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StarCraft II Heaven’s Devils Book Review: Humble Beginnings
Before Jim Raynor was the leader of his own paramilitary organization, blazing across the galaxy righting wrongs and fighting the good fight, he was the son of dirt farmers on a Confederate fringe world. This is where William C. Dietz’s StarCraft II: Heaven’s Devils begins. 18-year-old Raynor is plucked from his world by a recruiter…
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Hydro Thunder Hurricane Review: I’m On A Boat & It’s Going Fast
It’s a summer ritual: Insert coin, stomp on the accelerator and hold on for dear life. A reboot of the much loved arcade original and Dreamcast speedboat racer, Hydro Thunder Hurricane brings that template to Xbox Live’s Summer of Arcade. Given the depth of full-title racers on the current console generation, a downloadable game isn’t…
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You Know What We Did Last Summer Of Gaming
Kotaku’s 2010 Summer of Gaming might be over, but there’s still plenty of sunshine left this season. Why not spend the time looking over the summer-related things we wrote about last week? From the first flash of the lovely Plunkett-powered opening image to this sad farewell, we’ve shared memories this Summer of Gaming that will…
By Mike Fahey
