The Cooking Mama franchise upped their U.S. releases to four with their new Wii title, “Cooking Mama: World Kitchen.” With Majesco’s upcoming “Gardening Mama” and the startling lack of new features in “World Kitchen,” it’s obvious that the developers are fresh out of new ideas for Mama’s kitchen.
“World Kitchen” is not a bad game, but [...]

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Okami remains one of the most beautiful gaming experiences I’ve ever had. When I originally played this on the PS2, I wrote a gushing review. I never finished the game due to outside distractions and the promise of a Wii version. Since the game is built on brushwork, it seems like a natural fit, and [...]

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No More Heroes comes to us from Suda 51, the developer responsible for the stylish assassination-rail-shooter Killer 7. Like Killer 7, No More Heroes has outrageously stylish visuals and is chock-full of pop-culture reference, snappy dialog, and great characters. This is also one of the few truly adult third-party-titles for the Wii, which has yet [...]

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I once had a screaming nightmare that affected my sense of reality so badly that I couldn’t get back to sleep. Instead, I stayed up and played video games. Harvest Moon was my last grip on reality at 4AM. After that incident, I had a new respect for the cute sim games. We play games [...]

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Guitar Hero III : Legends of Rock brings longevity to the Guitar Hero series with online play and more shiny things to unlock and buy. You may be a little cheezed at the incentives to buy new controllers for each Guitar Hero release, but the wireless is definitely worth it. The tracklist isn’t any larger, [...]

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Take Quake 2, turn up the resolution, take out all bullets and replace them with lasers, and put neon shit everywhere. The result will be Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.
The game is lauded for being more story-driven than the previous Metroids. This caught my attention. Unfortunately, as much as they have shit you hear and text [...]

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Well, my first observation was that the sexualization of female Mario characters has come.
Finally.
Anyway, as hard as I tried to hate the Wii, I consented to a game of Mario Strikers. This isn’t one of those “Games for people who don’t like video games.” It is, however, a game for people that don’t like Nintendo. [...]

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Popularity is a fleeting thing, and nowhere is this more clearly visible than in the music industry. Even the biggest acts tend to age badly, and the vast majority vanish utterly in just a few years. Some few, like Madonna, manage to not only stay popular, but continue to build their [...]

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