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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 -
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MotorStorm: Arctic Edge Review: Big Game, Big Fun
MotorStorm: Arctic Edge is the third iteration in the Playstation’s over-the-top Burning Man-meets-World Rally Championship driving series since it was unveiled among a slew of Playstation 3 launch titles in 2005. The snow and ice setting of this latest MotorStorm, a shift from the arid desert of the first title and the humid jungles of…
By Brian Crecente Published October 7, 2009 -
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Wii Fit Plus Review: Now I’m A Believer
People in this country have it tough on the health front between unrealistic body image expectations and amazing food we’re expected to avoid for the sake of our figures. Couple all of that with the pathological need among my gender to be slimmer, stronger and sexier than the next chick and it’s no wonder 10…
By AJ Glasser Published October 6, 2009 -
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Gran Turismo PSP Review: Steady As A Pace Car
The long promised PlayStation Portable entry in Polyphony Digital’s Gran Turismo series has finally arrived, putting the essence of the “Real Driving Simulator” in your pocket. With some 800 licensed cars and over 35 tracks on which to race them, Gran Turismo for the PSP offers a broad driving simulation experience that focuses more on…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 5, 2009 -
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Spyborgs Review: Not-So-Heavy Metal
Part man. Part machine. All beat-em up. This is Capcom’s Spyborgs for the Nintendo Wii. First introduced at Capcom’s 2008 Captivate event, a ho-hum reception cause Bionic Games to go back to the drawing board, changing what was a cartoony action-adventure puzzler into a darker, somewhat grittier cooperative beat-em up. What could have been a…
By Mike Fahey Published October 5, 2009 -
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NHL 2K10 Review: Thin-Ice Capades
The National Hockey League dropped the puck on a new season Thursday night, turning sports fans’ thoughts to ice – and to hard hitting, fast-paced one-timer-from-the-slot action, qualities that 2K’s NHL title can certainly supply on a console. NHL 2K10 sees the franchise at somewhat of a crossroads. It’s in its 10th year overall, scrapping…
By Owen Good Published October 3, 2009 -
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MySims Agents Review: Sherlock Holmes Didn’t Have To Deal With This $#@%
Sure, England’s famous fictional detective had a cocaine addiction, but Sherlock Holmes never had to put up with his cell phone going off every fifteen seconds. The detectives in MySims Agents perhaps aren’t in the same class as Holmes. For one thing, they never solve murders and don’t get into martial arts smack down fights…
By AJ Glasser Published October 3, 2009 -
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FIFA 10 Review: 30-Yard Screamer
Last year, EA Sports’ FIFA finally managed to surpass long-time nemesis Pro Evo and emerge as the number one football game in the world, both critically and commercially. Let’s see what it’s managed to do in the 12 months since. Superficially, it appears it’s done very little, especially when compared to the drastic overhaul that’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 2, 2009 -
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PSP: Attack of the Minis
A mammoth update hit the Playstation Store early this morning, bringing with it more than 100 downloadable games. Included in the collection of classics and new full-blown titles were more than a half-dozen PSP Minis. These diminutive titles all run less than $10 and are designed to be quick bites that run on both the…
By Brian Crecente Published October 1, 2009 -
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Dead Space Extraction Review: Frighteningly Good
Surprising in more good ways than bad, Dead Space Extraction is the Wii Sports Tennis of so-called hardcore games on the Wii. What they’d tell you in a catalog is that Dead Space Extraction is the Wii prequel to last year’s PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 sci-fi horror hit Dead Space. They’d write that it…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 1, 2009 -
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Madden iPhone Micro-Review: The Biggest Small-Time Football
EA Sports‘ Madden franchise didn’t hit the iPhone until the NFL’s first week, trailing Gameloft’s NFL 2010 by a month. Does it deliver what longtime fans should expect? Or is it just a big-name brand’s toehold on a new platform? Loved Come-Back Story: Unlike NFL 2010, which kicked you back to the beginning of the…
By Owen Good Published September 30, 2009 -
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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Review: Fortune Shines on Drake
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves has a lot to live up to. The original Naughty Dog-developed third-person shooter was one of the crown jewels of the Playstation 3 launch, its critical success highlighting the technical prowess of Sony’s new console and the storytelling chops of the game’s creators. Now nearly two years later, Uncharted 2 has…
By Brian Crecente Published September 29, 2009 -
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Zuma’s Revenge Micro-Review: Bridging The Mom And Son Gap
My mother loves playing Zuma. So does my mother-in-law. While I thought that the plink-plunk-plink-plunk of their favorite game wasn’t for me, I discovered that the sequel might actually be a hardcore gamers’ kind of game, for better and worse. Zuma’s Revenge is the PC/Mac sequel to the multi-million selling Zuma, itself one of those…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 28, 2009 -
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PSPgo Review: A Peek Into the Future of Gaming
Smaller, easier to use and completely devoid of a disc drive of any sort, the PSPgo is powered only by digital media, a brave step into the future of gaming. But is it a future in which we want to live? Loved Pure Digital: The PSPgo is smaller, sleeker, better designed than its predecessors, but…
By Brian Crecente Published September 28, 2009