Before I start talking about Prince of Persia, it’s only fair to mention that I am a colossal fan of the older titles. Sands of Time sits firmly in my top three Best Games Ever Made, and while Warrior Within and Two Thrones drifted away from that level of stunning achievement, they’re still good enough [...]

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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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If you’ve somehow managed to miss out on the previous Devil May Cry titles, the essential idea of the games is something like this:
“So there’s this guy, right, he’s like, SO BADASS. No, more badass than that. Like, the most badass guy you can imagine, only with this awesome sword, that’s got, like [...]

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Mass effect is a bit of a roller coaster ride. This has been one of the most hyped new releases for the Xbox 360 for the Christmas season, and not without reason. Bioware is one of those developers who specialize in something and execute it with consistent brilliance. However, Mass Effect is their first title [...]

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So, here it is at last. A lot of people have been biting their nails over this title for a long time. The team behind Assassin’s Creed is the same team responsible for Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, which even now still ranks high on many lists of The Best Games Ever Made. Between [...]

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The Phantom Hourglass is finally here! After months of delays, the latest Zelda release finally comes to the Nintendo DS. Zelda personifies the action-adventure style by offering puzzles only occasionally mixed with fighting or jumping around. Where many adventure games have tried and failed to achieve a mix of challenging mind games and satisfying battles, [...]

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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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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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Children of Mana is the latest Squenix addition to a long line of Mana RPG/adventure games that have moved into the Nintendo handheld world - this one being a game for the DS. And out of all the mana games I’ve played, it is by far the worst, and possibly one of the worst RPG [...]

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