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Batman: The Brave And The Bold Review: Bat-Mite Makes Right

The Dark Knight returns to a more campy and colorful time in Batman: The Brave and the Bold for the Nintendo Wii, and he’s brought friends. Batman: The Brave and the Bold is the video game adaptation of the latest Batman animated series. In the cartoon, Batman teams up every week with a different DC…

By Mike Fahey Published September 7, 2010

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NHL 2K11 Review: The Second Shift Takes The Ice

2K Sports made one of the more intriguing – and gutsy – calls in sports publishing when it shelved NHL 2K on the PS3 and Xbox 360 for a year, going Wii-only for NHL 2K11. The business story makes sense: At the time, 2K was unchallenged in Wii hockey (EA Sports has since announced a…

By Owen Good Published September 6, 2010

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Start The Party Review: Reality Improved, Ridiculously

The most futuristic thing you can do in video games so far this year is to play Start The Party. Start The Party is -yawn- a party game, a -groan- mini-game collection. Oh, but it’s motion-controlled. Wait! Don’t run away. After years of camera-based video games that didn’t work under normal lighting conditions… after years…

By Stephen Totilo Published September 1, 2010

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Tumble Review: Barebone Blocks

Playing with blocks never gets old, especially if you’re using a motion-control enabled Playstation 3 to do it. But is the block-building puzzler a step above the colorful and fun Boom Blox for the Wii, or just a pale version of the Electronic Arts classic? Let’s have a look. Loved Controls: The level of detailed…

By Brian Crecente Published September 1, 2010

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Move Sports Champions Review: A Cut, A Spike, A Toss Above the Rest

Sports Champions is bound to be the most owned Playstation Move game when the motion-detecting peripheral hits the Playstation 3 on Sept. 19. That’s because the game comes bundled with the controller and camera and with a special Playstation 3 console pack. But you can also pick the collection of sports games up for $40…

By Brian Crecente Published September 1, 2010

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Kung Fu Rider Review: Tony Hawk Suggestive Jam

They’re launching the PlayStation Move with a game that plays like a Tony Hawk downhill trick racer, if Tony was a nerdy private detective guy or a girl who knelt on a chair and stuck her butt in your face. Kung Fu Rider is one of the PlayStation Move launch games targeted to a more…

By Stephen Totilo Published September 1, 2010

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Playstation Move Review: The Motion Controller Wars Start Now

The motion controller wars start now. In the four years since its launch, the Nintendo Wii has made motion-controlled gaming not just its dominion, but a hugely profitable business. But by the end of the year Nintendo will be back where they started, slugging away with two well-monied competitors for the hearts, the minds, the…

By Brian Crecente Published September 1, 2010

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Dead Rising 2: Case Zero Review: The Case Of The Zombie-Killing Demo

I have downed alcohol until vomiting, I have halved zombies crown to crotch. I have wielded an electrified rake. I am Chuck Greene: The zombie apocalypse’s worst nightmare. Xbox 360 exclusive Dead Rising 2: Case Zero is meant to be a prequel to the full Dead Rising 2 game due out on Sept. 28. In…

By Brian Crecente Published August 31, 2010

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The Incident Review: It’s A Happening & It Freaks Me Out

The sky—and everything else—is falling in The Incident, an iPhone and iPad game that combines the randomized chaos of piling trash, a la Katamari Damacy, with the retro, one-button gameplay of platformers of old. The Incident presents a more charming apocalypse than we’re used to. Inexplicably, objects begin falling from the sky. As a high-jumping…

By Michael McWhertor Published August 30, 2010

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Shank Review: He’ll Cut You

Endless streams of tough guys. One after another. I pull out my blades, switch to a chainsaw and then start shooting. Shank isn’t a beat ’em up. It’s a slice ’em, shoot ’em, pummel ’em up. Side-scroller Shank follows the adventure of a guy named, wait for it, Shank. He’s on a warpath, out to…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 27, 2010

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Metroid: Other M Review: Our Unexpected Future

This game was made by brave people. Bravery in game design is when someone makes a tennis video game and doesn’t let you control where the tennis players run. Bravery in game design is when you turn a series about a Bear that can jump into an ambitious game of LEGOs Bravery is when, in…

By Stephen Totilo Published August 27, 2010

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Top Gun Review: Minus Tom, Minus Loving Feeling, Plus DualShock, Plus Multiplayer

There are two things to know about the new Top Gun jet combat game: 1) Its creators have changed lines from its ’80s Tom Cruise inspiration for the worse and 2) it’d be better if it wasn’t about Top Gun. In 1986 everyone went to see the movie Top Gun, a movie about a fighter…

By Stephen Totilo Published August 24, 2010

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Mafia II Review: Smelling The Roses In A Life Lived Too Fast

Morning. The phone rings, I answer. It’s Joe, chirping the usual advice. Get dressed and get my gun. I go to the fridge instead for a Master Beer. In the bathroom I flip on the light. I flush the toilet. None of these actions in Mafia II are from cutscenes, and that is both the…

By Owen Good Published August 23, 2010

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Lara Croft And The Guardian Of Light Review: Gotta Wear Shades

In 1996, Lara Croft burst onto the scene with the first Tomb Raider. Time hasn’t been so kind, and over the years, her popularity has dipped. But with spin-off title Guardian of Light, is she back with a vengeance? Unlike previous Tomb Raider titles, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light uses an isometric third-person…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 20, 2010

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Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days Review: Grime Story

Partners in crime, Kane and Lynch, meet in Shanghai for one more score. An arms deal goes—how else?—horribly wrong, resulting in death, double-dealings and grisly torture. Kane & Lynch 2 made me sick, perhaps my favorite part. Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days tells the gritty, foul-mouthed and bloody tale of Lynch’s life turned upside-down…

By Michael McWhertor Published August 17, 2010

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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”…

By Owen Good Published August 13, 2010

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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Movie Review: You’re Gonna Get It

Scott Pilgrim, a rock and roll hero in his own mind, meets the girl of his dreams, Ramona Flowers. To win her, Scott must use a skill set one can only learn from video games and comic books to succeed. In Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Scott (Michael Cera) is thrust into mortal combat with…

By Michael McWhertor Published August 13, 2010

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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…

By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2010

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Fierce Teflon & Steel Mouse Pad Review: Slip Slidin’ Away

When Rude Gameware showed off a new mouse pad by seemingly grilling burgers on it – something slightly more interesting than your standard PC peripheral fare – we just had to take it for a test drive. The Fierce Teflon & Steel is pitched as a serious gamer’s mouse pad, being both hefty in size…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 11, 2010

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Madden 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…

By Owen Good Published August 9, 2010