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Call of Duty: World At War: Zombies Verrückt Micro-Review: Solo Fun
No longer limited to wandering the rooms of an abandoned building, the zombies of the Verrückt zombie asylum add-on pack for iPhone’s Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies are trying to break their way into the halls of an insane asylum. The basic premise of this $5 in-game purchase is the same – kill…
By Brian Crecente Published February 25, 2010 -
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Nintendo DSi XL Review: Super Size Me
The Nintendo DSi LL, (DSi XL in the West) is the latest addition to the hugely successful Nintendo platform. “LL” is the Japanese equivalent of “XL”, or “extra large”. But is bigger really better? Released in Japan in late November, the Nintendo DSi XL features 4.2 inch screens that are 93 percent larger than the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 25, 2010 -
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The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom Micro-review: Snack Of The Clones
The puzzle’s the thing in The Odd Gentlemen’s time-twisting, brain-teasing platformer The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, a pie collecting adventure made fascinating by the eponymous Winterbottom and his superhuman ability to clone himself. In The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, players control the umbrella-wielding Winterbottom and his many clones, which are recorded loops of the pie-hungry…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 24, 2010 -
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Assassin’s Creed II: Bonfire Of The Vanities Micro-Review: Once More, With Fleeing
Bonfire of the Vanities is the second piece of downloadable content for Assassin’s Creed II, after the lacklustre Battle of Forli. Let’s hope it’s a better use of your time. Bonfire sees Ezio Auditore da Firenze return to Florence in the year 1497, in an attempt to root out support for the mad monk Savonarola…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 24, 2010 -
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Resident Evil 5: Lost In Nightmares Micro-Review: Less Fighting, More Frightening
The brief new downloadable episode for Resident Evil 5 isn’t very scary, but it does show how a Resident Evil 5 can be more terrifying than the original game Capcom released in 2009. Resident Evil 5: Lost In Nightmares is a flashback scenario starring Mark McGwire-bodied Resident Evil 5 hero Chris Redfield and his partner…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 23, 2010 -
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Across Age Micro-Review: Slam Evil
Take a trip back in time with Across Age, an old-school action role-playing game with a time-traveling twist, now available for the iPhone. Across Age, co-produced by FDG Entertainment and Japanese developer Exe Create, tells the tale of the brave knight Ales, on a quest to rid the world of an evil overlord who’s been…
By Mike Fahey Published February 23, 2010 -
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Plants Vs. Zombies iPhone Micro-Review: Touch The Dead
PopCap Games’ unlikely match up between the walking dead and the powerful flora that keeps your brains and well-kept lawn intact is more than just an attention-grabbing title. Plants Vs. Zombies is simply an excellent “tower defense” game. And now it’s on the iPhone. Trading towers and cannons for stalks and stems, Plants Vs. Zombies…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 22, 2010 -
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Endless Ocean: Blue World Review: The Wii Game You’re Wrong About
There’s an optical illusion that sometimes appears to be an ugly hag, sometimes a beautiful lady. There’s a Rorschach blot that looks like a butterfly and a couple making love. This is the Wii equivalent. The people who run Nintendo might want me to describe Endless Ocean: Blue World to you as the Wii’s second…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 22, 2010 -
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Link ‘N Launch Micro-Review: How About ‘Pikmin Rockets’ Or ‘Better Than Bioshock Hacking’?
The latest Nintendo-published downloadable game for the DS may be one of the worst-named Nintendo games of all time. It’s also another proof that top Nintendo-affiliated developers could school a lot of iPhone game creators. Link ‘N Launch is a DSiWare game from Intelligent Systems, the development studio behind such Nintendo-published greats as Advance Wars,…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 20, 2010 -
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Assassin’s Creed II: Discovery Micro-Review: Worth Discovering?
Once again, Assassin’s Creed vaults from the home console to the portable platform with the iPhone spin-off Assassin’s Creed II: Discovery, starring the second game’s Ezio de Auditore as he travels to Spain. Guide Ezio from platform to platform with touchscreen controls as he attempts to rescue his fellow assassin’s from the Inquisition and uncover…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 19, 2010 -
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Aliens Vs. Predator Review: Too Human
Aliens vs. Predator tells the story of a colonial base on a distant planet that finds itself at the unfortunate epicenter of a showdown between a hive of Aliens and a hunting party of Predators. Playing through the first-person shooter as a marine, an Alien and a Predator, gamers will piece together the story of…
By Brian Crecente Published February 19, 2010 -
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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief Review: A Muddled Mess
Turns out that Percy Jackson isn’t a trouble maker with dyslexia and ADHD, he’s just the son of Poseidon, and you know how those demigods are. Movie Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lighting Thief shows what happened when a 12-year-old is thrust into a training camp for the children of gods and soon after…
By Brian Crecente Published February 18, 2010 -
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STALKER: Call Of Pripyat Review: Third Time’s A Charm?
STALKER: Call of Pripyat is the third game in the first-person shooter STALKER series, but seeing as it’s also meant to fix its predecessors many, glaring failures, it’s also a first. Again set in a near-future world centred around the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Call of Pripyat is supposed to be more focused, and more importantly…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 17, 2010 -
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Chime Review: Tune In, Drop Out
There are plenty of games around that are built to be played any time. There are few, sadly, that specialise in being played under select conditions. Like if you’re stressed. Or have stumbled home from the pub at 3am. A puzzle game we’ve featured previously on Kotaku, Chime may at first glance appear familiar. You…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 16, 2010 -
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Hustle Kings Micro-Review: The Color of Fun
Pool has a spotty history in video games, possibly because the real thing’s available in any bar or basement. But that’s a game usually played badly. Can Hustle Kings make you into a shark, or just feed you to them? Loved Rack ‘em up: The basic necessity of a billiards sim is a predictable and…
By Owen Good Published February 15, 2010 -
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SOCOM: U.S. Navy Seals Fireteam Bravo 3 Review: Fire In The Hole!
SOCOM: Tactical Strike and Confrontation developer Slant Six Games gives the franchise another go, picking up where Zipper Interactive left off with SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 3 for the PSP. There are weapons of mass destruction in the fictional country of Koratvia, and it’s up to you and your crack team of Navy…
By Mike Fahey Published February 12, 2010 -
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Sins Of A Solar Empire: Diplomacy Micro-Review: Talk Is Cheap
Developer Ironclad doesn’t call Diplomacy, the second add-on to its popular PC space strategy title Sins of a Solar Empire, an expansion. It’s called, fittingly, a “micro-expansion.” Rather than add a host of things that “clip on” to the existing title – new races, etc. – Sins Of A Solar Empire: Diplomacy instead seeks to…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 12, 2010 -
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Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars Review: FanFic Comes to Life
In Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom Ultimate All -Stars, players select from among 26 characters plucked from the universes of Tatsunoko Productions and Capcom to create a tag team to brawl their way through waves of paired-off fighters. Much has been made of the fan-driven nature of this latest entry in the casual-meets-hardcore Versus fighter franchise. It…
By Brian Crecente Published February 11, 2010 -
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Heavy Rain Review: No Wrong Conclusion
You’re a man trying to rock a baby to sleep. You’re a woman trying to look sexy for a sleaze. Who cares if you’re having fun, as long as you’re interested? You’re playing Heavy Rain, a video game about people. Many years in the making and a successor to what could most kindly be called…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 10, 2010 -
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Dante’s Inferno Review: Big Ideas, Small Problems
Dante Alighieri, real world 14th-century poet and cavalryman, is re-imagined as a love-struck crusader in this retelling of the poet’s greatest work. Dante’s Inferno, one third of Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, serves as the backdrop for this video game’s story of the poet’s search for real-world love Beatrice in hell. Players arm themselves with Death’s scythe…
By Brian Crecente Published February 9, 2010