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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I’ve been a big fan of racing games for a long time. I spent many happy hours in high school running my friends into the supernaturally solid shrubs and lampposts featured in Top Gear. Indeed it was the arcade version of Race Drivin’ that taught me how to use a manual transmission, and I’ve preferred [...]

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You know that stuck-up prick who thinks that your enjoyment of the Need For Speed series makes you an uncultured asshole? The one who tries to convince you that you should play Gran Turismo, even though you don’t consider Gran Turismo a game because in your definition of game the word “fun” appears somewhere?
I’m that [...]

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Most game reviews involve a fairly lengthy process of playing the game enough to develop a very complete picture of all its strengths and weaknesses. For this reason, professional game reviewers are frequently compelled to spend a lot of time playing games they don’t really like just so that they can write a review of [...]

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Keeping a series going is always a tricky balancing act between stasis and change. Keep things too much the same, and your audience is likely to get bored and look for something else to do. Innovate too much, and you risk alienating your audience by ruining what made the original popular in the first place. [...]

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It really is as good as everybody says. The main campaign is a pretty generic terrorist-group-nuke-danger sort of scenario, but you don’t mind. It’s the execution that makes the game work.
The production values are through the roof all across the board. The shockwave effects of grenades and explosives going off are so cool that [...]

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I’ll state right off the bat here that I am by no means a lethal villain in Halo3. I tend to make poor decisions under pressure, I’m impatient, and I’m not a very good shot. I’m pretty happy any time I pull a positive Kill/Death ratio, and it’s not likely I’ll ever bother to rank [...]

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The Cooking Mama series can do no wrong by me. These are near perfect games because you get exactly what you’re expecting, and then some. As the title suggests, Cooking Mama 2 is a cooking game with 80 recipes from around the world, including favorites like kimchee and pancakes. You prepare food in steps, with [...]

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Beautiful Katamari, like it’s predecessors, deals with the havoc of King of the Cosmos, and you play as the dutiful Prince who has to clean up after your irresponsible father. This time, the King has created a black hole from launching a golf ball into the sky, which sucked up all of the planets and [...]

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There are few franchises in PC gaming more successful than the one bearing the lambda logo. The original Half-Life still reigns as the best selling First Person Shooter for PCs of all time, and for good reason. Half-Life was the first really successful fusion of the FPS and exploration/puzzle genres, and even today there are [...]

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