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Dungeon Hunter Review: Pocketful of Diablo

Boasting 25 hours of simple, action gaming built around the driving desire to find and collect increasingly powerful weapons and armor, Dungeon Hunter’s biggest surprise may be the platform it’s on. In Dungeon Hunter players take on the role of a prince, playing as mage, fighter or rogue, as he fights his way through dungeons…

By Brian Crecente Published October 24, 2009

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Marvel Super Hero Squad Review: This One Is For The Brats

For those of us who can’t handle the grown-up action of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, THQ delivers Marvel Super Hero Squad, the game of the television show of the toy line. In Marvel Super Hero Squad, tiny cartoon versions of your favorite Marvel heroes and villains race to collect Infinity Fragments in order to either…

By Mike Fahey Published October 23, 2009

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Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time Review: The Leap, At Last

The problem with the Ratchet & Clank games being consistently good, annual release after annual release, is that it’s hard for them to seem spectacular. For the first time in a while, a new one does. Since the Ratchet & Clank series launched just back in 2002, Insomniac Games has developed four installments for the…

By Stephen Totilo Published October 22, 2009

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Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games Review: Going Through the Motions

There’s something to be said for a game that has Bowser performing a triple Salchow in figure skating or Dr. Eggman sweeping the ice in curling. I’m just not sure what that something is, though. Exciting? Surreal? Blasphemous? Whatever the case, such sights are possible in Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, a…

By Michael McWhertor Published October 21, 2009

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A Boy And His Blob Review: The Zero Nostalgia Version

WayForward Technologies and Majesco bring us A Boy and His Blob for the Nintendo Wii, a re-creation of the beloved 1989 NES title, which I incidentally have never played. I think it bears noting that I never played the original A Boy and His Blob for two reasons. First, the reader understands why I don’t…

By Mike Fahey Published October 20, 2009

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Bakugan Battle Brawlers Review: Almost There

Part marbles, part Pokemon, anime and toy sensation Bakugan Battle Brawlers brings 2008’s Toy of the Year to the console in a game that drops players into the Bakugan world, battling transforming monsters in a race to save the planet. But can a video game capture the essence of a toy made popular by it’s…

By Brian Crecente Published October 20, 2009

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Critter Crunch Micro Review: Gross In a Cute Way

The cute-and kinda gross-puzzler that’s had iPhone users bursting bugs for sometime now, finally infects the PlayStation 3 with the same addictive, arachnid-munching action. Controlling Biggs, a tubby, cuddly creature, players snap up bugs with his tongue from an above board (that’s a cross between Space Invaders and Donkey Kong Jr.) and feed them to…

matt cabral Published October 19, 2009

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Borderlands Review: Guns! Guns! Guns!

Gearbox Software’s Borderlands is part first-person shoot ’em up, part role-playing game, a dusty slog across the planet Pandora in search of the legendary treasures of the Vault. Along the way, from the bus that drops your player off at the nearly deserted town of Fyrestone to the final showdown at the secretive Vault, a…

By Michael McWhertor Published October 19, 2009

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Axel & Pixel Micro-Review: A Puzzling Combination

2K Play launches its indie game initiative with Axel & Pixel, a point and click adventure game from Czech studio Silver Wish Games starring a man, his dog, and a giant mutant rat. The aforementioned mutant rat has trapped the artist Axel and his canine companion Pixel in a bizarre dream world and run off…

By Mike Fahey Published October 16, 2009

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Zombie Apocalypse Micro-Review: Paint the Town Red

Nonstop carnage is on the menu in Konami’s Zombie Apocalypse, which brings games’ undying affinity for the undead to a top-down, multidirectional shooter. Does it also hold the same appeal when it’s one – or four – against a thousand? Loved Senseless Slaughter: Who wouldn’t want to go up against an undead horde with unlimited…

By Owen Good Published October 16, 2009

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Half-Minute Hero Review: A Good Risk

Have you ever had your intelligence insulted or your time wasted by a Japanese role-playing game? This one won’t do either. Half-Minute Hero, XSeed and Marvelous Entertainment’s unusual, experimental role-playing game is smart, sharp, surprisingly long — given its title — and sloppy in a way that somehow doesn’t break the game but instead makes…

By Stephen Totilo Published October 15, 2009

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Ju-on: The Grudge Review: Curse Of The Movie Game

I first saw the original Ju-on movie in Japan on Halloween night 2005. I was doing fine up until the part where the TV in this lady’s apartment goes wonky. I didn’t even bother with the American version after that. The Japanese original was scary enough for me, thank you very much. So when I…

By AJ Glasser Published October 14, 2009

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Lucidity Micro-Review: Beauty Is Only Skin-Deep

LucasArts’ out-of-left-field Lucidity forgoes the publisher’s usual reliance on the Force and fedoras in favor of a little girl who loves her Nana. As Sofi, players are unleashed into a storybook-like, side-scrolling dream-scape evocative of the worlds created by Tim Burton. Despite Sofi being the main character, players don’t actually control her; instead, they protect…

matt cabral Published October 14, 2009

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Brutal Legend Review: Testing Its Metal

Join roadie Eddie Riggs on a magical journey to free a heavy metal fantasy world from the grips of demonic oppression in Brutal Legend. Brutal Legend is the latest game from Double Fine Productions and Tim Schafer, the man behind Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, and Psychonauts. Eddie Riggs is a roadie who fears that heavy…

By Mike Fahey Published October 13, 2009

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Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Review: Boom Headshot!

While Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising touts itself as a tactical squad-based shooter, what really separates this franchise from all of the other gun games is its brutal difficulty and faithful adaptation to real battlefield conditions. In this first-person shooter sequel you command a squad of marines helping to retake the island of Skira from the…

By Brian Crecente Published October 12, 2009

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NBA Live 10 Review: Amen for a Revival

NBA Live 10 opens with Dwight Howard and a dramatic reading about the meaning of revival. Of course it refers to Howard and his team, the Orlando Magic. It also clearly speaks of EA Sports‘ hopes for its own game. Last year’s version of NBA Live finally helped the franchise pick itself off the mat…

By Owen Good Published October 11, 2009

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NBA 2K10 Review: Ball, You — Man!

Without question, the NBA is the crown jewel of the 2K Sports catalog, whose NBA 2K10 released Tuesday to the expectations faced by a clear winner – stick with what works, or keep up the full-court press? To continue the metaphor, NBA 2K10 delivers both. All sports titles face a justify-your-existence question of what to…

By Owen Good Published October 11, 2009

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Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days Review: Crisis Hearts

Our time with the Nobody Roxas in Kingdom Hearts II was far too short. Square Enix rectifies this oversight with Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days for the Nintendo DS. 358/2 Days tells the tale of Sora’s Nobody Roxas from the time he first came into being up until he finds himself among friends at the beginning…

By Mike Fahey Published October 9, 2009

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South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play! Review: Throwing Snowballs

It’s up to the South Park kids to stop a steady stream of enemies from terrorizing their town in tower defense game South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play! The game has players use coins to build a variety of towers that do things like shoot snowballs, cherry balls, ice and pee-snowballs at incoming enemies…

By Brian Ashcraft Published October 9, 2009

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Katamari Forever Review: Nothing More, Nothing Less

Namco Bandai’s Katamari Damacy series comes to the PlayStation 3 with Katamari Forever, the sixth entry in the series in five years. Once again, the Prince is tasked with rebuilding the galaxy using his all-adhesive katamari. The game may have been more appropriately titled in Japan, there known as Katamari Tribute. The PS3 version borrows…

By Michael McWhertor Published October 8, 2009