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Peripherally Speaking: Crossfire Remote Pistol
1 hour ago - 2:00 PM on 11.23.2009
When it comes to Wii accessories, the vast majority of products are ones designed to work in conjunction with the Wii Remote. Just look at all of the assorted plastic bits of junk that you can sl...
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Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles
6:00 PM on 11.20.2009
When I first heard that Capcom's next Resident Evil game was going to be a sequel to the Wii-exclusive Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, I was pretty disappointed. Umbrella Chronicles actua...
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Left 4 Dead 2
2:00 AM on 11.17.2009
New friends, more zombies, better apocalypse. That's what Valve has promised, and that's what fans will come to expect when they finally pick up the sequel to one of the best zombie games ever m...
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Reflex
6:00 PM on 11.16.2009
I don't generally like wartime FPSes. In fact, I'd say that the "normal guy with guns shooting other normal guys with guns" genre is my least favorite in all of videogame-dom, starting with Golde...
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Arkedo Series - 02 SWAP!
6:00 PM on 11.14.2009
A few weeks ago, indie game developer Arkedo sent me an e-mail titled "An Easy Game from Arkedo to Dtoid, with Love": "Do you think it would be possible to have your mad skillz colleague try and ...
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EyePet
2:00 PM on 11.14.2009
Before the Wii, Sony brought casual motion-controlled gaming to the masses with EyeToy. Unfortunately, Sony never really capitalized on it and is only now scrabbling to make use of its camera per...
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New Super Mario Bros. Wii
6:00 PM on 11.13.2009
It's a-me! Mario! Nick said he's too lazy to write an intro! But he reviewed New Super Mario Bros. Wii and you can read that after the jump! There's also a neat-o video review, too! Woo hoo!
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
2:00 PM on 11.12.2009
The biggest game of the year is finally here. Infinity Ward created one of the most popular, well-crafted and subsequently imitated first-person-shooter games in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare a...
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Gravitronix
2:00 PM on 11.10.2009
Rght around the time that WiiWare was just becoming known to the public, a little company in New Hampshire called Medaverse Studios announced that they would be jumping in on the fun with a game ...
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Mahjongg Artifacts 2 (PSP minis)
2:00 PM on 11.05.2009
It's mahjongg. I'm not going to tell you that this is some groundbreaking videogame. But I will say that I played the hell out of this title. It seemed to fill some gap in my PSPgo library that I...
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Dragon Age: Origins
8:00 AM on 11.03.2009
What do you do when you stop making games for one of the biggest roleplaying franchises of all time? If you're BioWare, the answer is easy -- make your own roleplaying franchise and start again f...
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Lost Winds: The Winter of the Melodias
6:00 PM on 11.02.2009
When I heard the news that a second Lost Winds game was coming out I knew I had to finally download the first game and become a big fan of it. So I did download it and I did become a big fan of i...
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Osmos
2:00 PM on 11.02.2009
Upon reading the title of this post, I assume you will have one of two reactions:
1. What the hell is Osmos what is this crap why are you wasting my
2. Didn't that game come out, like, almost thr...
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Space Invaders Extreme 2
6:00 PM on 10.29.2009
Space Invaders Extreme is regarded by many as among the greatest DS games of all time, and an essential component of any portable gaming repertoire. It was undoubtedly a brilliant game, and so a ...
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Half-Minute Hero
2:00 PM on 10.29.2009
Roleplaying games are dramatic, lengthy affairs in which most players could reasonably expect to lose up to eighty hours of their time. Half-Minute Hero exists to tell you just how much you're wa...
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JU-ON: The Grudge
6:00 PM on 10.28.2009
It's almost Halloween, and if you're anything like me, you're going to try to make the most of it. Playing survival horror games can be one way of doing that, but the way the genre has evolved (o...
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Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble
2:00 PM on 10.28.2009
You know how it goes. There's always that one badass at school that no one messes with. Everyone around knows that this particular badass has dignified himself by pulling enough sucker punches an...
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Thexder Neo
2:00 PM on 10.26.2009
Thexder began life life in 1985 on the NEC PC-8801. Although regarded as a classic, the SHMUP never became a massive franchise. It gained international success when converted for the MSX system, ...
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Domino Rally
6:00 PM on 10.25.2009
As far as I know, Domino Rally has not yet been released in stores. It's also not available on GameStop's site, or most other online retail outlets. The game came out over a month ago, but I thin...
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Eufloria
6:00 PM on 10.24.2009
Eufloria -- formerly known as Dyson -- has been on my radar for a while now. Firstly, one of its creators also made Cottage of Doom. This, in itself, is sufficient reason for excitement.Secondly,...
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BIT.TRIP Void
8:00 PM on 10.23.2009
Fans of BIT.TRIP Beat and BIT.TRIP Core will be thrilled to hear that the development team at Gaijin Games has been hard at work on a third game in the BIT.TRIP series called BIT.TRIP Void. While...
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Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
2:00 PM on 10.22.2009
Insomniac Games' Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time represents the ninth game in the series, which started back in 2002 on the PlayStation 2. That's nine games in seven years, folks. Wow.&...
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Wii Fit Plus
6:00 PM on 10.19.2009
Wii Fit Plus is a $20 upgrade to Wii Fit. It includes everything from the original title, plus new games and new "fitness"-related things that I only sort-of care about. The game now tr...
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Machinarium
2:00 PM on 10.19.2009
Machinarium may be the best adventure game I've ever played. I don't know if I outright prefer it over the motion-controlled glory that is Zack and Wiki, or the wacky time-travel-laffs of Chariot...
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Borderlands
11:00 AM on 10.19.2009
Borderlands is almost here, and judging from the constant messages, insults, and death threats I've gotten in the last few weeks as I've been playing it on Steam, I would consider it eagerly anti...
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Peripherally Speaking: NERF N-Strike Switch Shot EX-3
2:00 PM on 10.18.2009
I love NERF guns. In my household, NERF guns are kept within easy reach at all times because you never know when an all-out war is about to occur. This probably happens more frequently than it sh...
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Squeeballs Party
11:00 PM on 10.17.2009
You can never truly have enough party games on the Nintendo Wii, right? Well, actually ... you can. As someone who enjoys a good party-style game on occasion -- y'know, WarioWare, Boom Blox, or s...
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Forza Motorsport 3
6:00 PM on 10.13.2009
Racing games are not for everybody. Well, the old ones were, but time went by, we slowly got away from the simplicity of just getting over the finish line first. Now we're at a point where we're ...
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Brutal Legend
2:00 PM on 10.13.2009
Despite having only developed one game prior, there were a lot of expectations for Double Fine Productions' follow-up, Brütal Legend. With founder Tim Schafer behind the wheel, this heavy me...
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Lucidity
9:30 PM on 10.12.2009
Revealed September 10th on an episode of GTTV after weeks of rumors, Lucidity is developer LucasArts’ new downloadable title. Unlike their last few releases like Secret of Monkey Island: Sp...
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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
6:00 PM on 10.12.2009
Hey guys, have you heard about this game Uncharted 2: Among Thieves?It's the follow-up to Naughty Dog's 2007 PlayStation 3 exclusive, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. In the sequel, treasure hunter Na...
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You, Me and the Cubes
2:00 PM on 10.12.2009
Over the course of my tenure here at Destructoid, I've noticed that most people don't want to read reviews of games they haven't A) already been thinking about for a number months or B) don't alr...
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JUMP!
6:00 PM on 10.11.2009
I'll be as forthcoming as I can: I didn't finish, nor will I probably ever finish JUMP!, the first of several XBL Indie Game from Arkedo (the guys behind Big Bang Mini, if you're keeping track) p...
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Critter Crunch (PSN)
6:00 PM on 10.06.2009
Toronto-based developed Capybara games has been around for awhile, likely doing a bunch of stuff you might have overlooked. If you haven't heard of them, I wouldn't blame you. Maybe you've had a ...
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PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe
2:00 PM on 10.06.2009
Tower defense-style strategy games are nothing new, nor are variations on tried and true game formulas. But PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe is a tower-defense style game that is a variation and improve...
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Undead Knights
6:00 PM on 10.05.2009
Just when I was getting thoroughly sick of zombie games, along comes Tecmo with another one. Only, this one turns the entire idea of zombie slaughter on its head and manages to do something surpr...
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Non-review: Why I couldn't finish Demon's Souls
2:00 PM on 10.05.2009
We're not in the business of reviewing games we don't finish, so I'll say right away that I did not finish Demon's Souls, the latest action RPG for the PlayStation 3. Because of this, we will not...
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The Warriors: Street Brawl
6:00 PM on 10.04.2009
The Warriors is the sort of film which should lend itself almost perfectly to a gaming experience. Its simplistic plot centered around eight gang members trying to cross New York City with every ...
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Dead Space Extraction
6:00 PM on 10.04.2009
When it was first announced that the Wii would be getting its own Dead Space title, fans of the original game immediately cried foul. It was fair to assume that like the console's other big 360-t...
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Gridrunner Revolution
2:00 PM on 10.03.2009
Jeff Minter's Gridrunner Revolution is a good game, and I say that as someone who absolutely hated Space Giraffe. I have no time to play the coy, "these are the opening paragraphs so I don't...
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Champions Online
2:00 PM on 10.02.2009
Ah, the MMO. It's a tricky beast, alright. Making one seems to be such a delicate process. As developers and publishers try to replicate the immense success of World of Warcraft, we've seen few s...
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Hardware review: PSPgo
7:00 PM on 09.30.2009
Sony's latest stab at a portable handheld, the PSPgo, hits shelves tomorrow. Are you excited? It's so small and cute! The sexy unit landed in the Destructoid Baltimore offices this week, and I sp...
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Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2
6:00 PM on 09.30.2009
When people think of ridiculously difficult action games, they tend to gravitate instantly toward Ninja Gaiden. Personally, I feel Ninja Gaiden relies instead on being "annoying" rather...
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Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 3
2:00 PM on 09.30.2009
Another chapter in the Telltale Games' Tales of Monkey Island episodic series was released yesterday afternoon. Chapter 3, or the “Lair of the Leviathan” kicks off as a powerful whale...
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Katamari Forever
2:00 PM on 09.28.2009
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Muramasa: The Demon Blade
6:00 PM on 09.23.2009
We waited very impatiently for Muramasa: The Demon Blade to come out on Wii this month. The slashing action game has been enchanting us with trailers for months. And here it is. The die has been ...
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Zombie Apocalypse
2:00 PM on 09.23.2009
If you're over the whole “zombies in videogames” streak the industry has been on the past few years, you're not alone. What once was a rare and genuinely exciting occurrence (Zombies ...
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Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
6:00 PM on 09.21.2009
Most RPGs these days are stale, boring and almost impossible to differentiate from one another. They all trot out the same turn-based combat, the same angst-ridden characters, and the same "...
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Colin McRae DiRT 2
2:00 PM on 09.20.2009
When Codemasters announced DiRT 2, I was very happy to see that it still had Colin McRae's name on it. I found the first game to be "okay," and after playing the demo for this second in...
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Halo 3: ODST
11:00 PM on 09.19.2009
The Halo series is one of gaming’s biggest franchises to date. From videogames, books, comics, toys, to clothes -- Halo was even almost turned into (and could very well still be) a Hollywoo...
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WET
6:00 PM on 09.18.2009
While I was sold on the concept of WET -- a chick shoots and slices up thugs in a grindhouse-inspired action game -- I wasn't exactly sold on what's arguably a game's most important aspect: How i...
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Scribblenauts
6:00 PM on 09.17.2009
Scribblenauts has been one of the most eagerly anticipated DS games of the year, if not the biggest. Its concept was ambitious and its charm captivated all who saw it in the run up to the game's ...
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Cursed Mountain
6:00 PM on 09.16.2009
Survival horror is quickly running out of places to go. The genre feels as though it has matured to the point where not a lot of innovation is going on. At least, until we heard about Cursed Moun...
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Zuma's Revenge
2:00 PM on 09.15.2009
Sometimes I imagine the puzzle game masterminds at PopCap as mad scientists, all hunched over a table in a dark underground laboratory, doing something unworldly to their games to make them as ad...
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Contra ReBirth
6:00 PM on 09.14.2009
The surreal mixing of Hollywood references, real-life political terminology, and sci-fi craziness has long been a staple of Konami action games, but the Contra series takes that special brand of ...
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NHL 10
2:00 PM on 09.14.2009
EA Sports’ NHL franchise has a distinguished pedigree -- the past two games in the series have earned 19 “sports game of the year” awards from various videogame publications and...
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I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
6:00 PM on 09.11.2009
There's absolutely no point in trying to build suspense about whether or not we at Destructoid like I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1 (hereafter referred to as IMAGWZ1T!). We do. It is, quite ...
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Darkest of Days
6:00 PM on 09.10.2009
Darkest of Days is the worst first-person shooter of this generation.There it is. This attempt to be a clever, interesting FPS experience is, without a shadow of a doubt, the single worst first-p...
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AaAaaAaAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity
2:00 PM on 09.10.2009
I find myself unable to properly convey the experience of playing AaAaaAaAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity with the space allotted in an introductory paragraph (and the short description...
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The Beatles: Rock Band
2:20 PM on 09.08.2009
As the ending credits rolled on The Beatles: Rock Band -- set to the sounds of actual, archived studio chatter from the Fab Four -- our Xbox 360 controller went into sleep mode. Yes, the credits ...
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Metroid Prime Trilogy
6:00 PM on 09.07.2009
Metroid Prime Trilogy is quickly becoming known as the Wii's equivalent to The Orange Box, and if you've played The Orange Box, you know how big a compliment that is. Thing is, I know there are a...
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Raven Squad
2:00 PM on 09.07.2009
The medium of interactive entertainment is full of good ideas that, for some reason or another, never realized their full potential. Either the required budget just wasn't there, pressure from pu...
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Section 8
6:00 PM on 09.04.2009
What's the point in making a multiplayer game for consoles if nobody is going to play it on consoles? How exactly do you review a game you can hardly play because barely anybody else is playing i...
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NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits
6:00 PM on 09.03.2009
NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits (formally known as Icarian: Kindred Spirits) joins Braid and Lost Winds in the ever-evolving "platformer 2.0" movement that's been picking up steam of late. Li...
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Flower, Sun and Rain
2:00 PM on 09.03.2009
So we're a little late with this review of Flower, Sun and Rain, but cut us some slack, interpreting and attempting to understand a Suda51 game takes some time (plus some patience). Since we're a...
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Dissidia: Final Fantasy
6:00 PM on 09.02.2009
Dissidia: Final Fantasy, like all Square Enix games, has been a long time coming. Truly must-have titles on the PSP are few and far between, and with Dissidia cramming a ludicrous amount of Final...
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Peripherally Speaking: Alienware M17x
12:20 PM on 09.02.2009
You may remember the M17x. A few months ago we invaded Alienware HQ and spoke with Raymond Watkins about this beast of a gaming laptop. In addition to conversation, we were able to fondle the lap...
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Guitar Hero 5
8:00 PM on 09.01.2009
While there's a fat “five” tagged to the name of this game, by no stretch of the imagination is this only the fifth Guitar Hero game to hit the market. Ignoring the mobile and handhel...
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Persona PSP
2:00 PM on 09.01.2009
About a decade ago, PlayStation role-playing game Shin Megami Tensei: Persona came and went. It made a mark, but not one big enough to stand up against other RPG giants on the shelves at the time...
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Warriors Orochi 2
6:00 PM on 08.30.2009
When I reviewed Warriors Orochi 2 on the Xbox 360, I wasn't merficul. In fact, it got a 2.0 thanks to the terrible state in which the final retail copy shipped, marred by such horrendous framerat...
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C.O.R.E
2:00 PM on 08.28.2009
First person shooter games really aren't good on the DS. Even the good ones aren't very good. So really, a game like C.O.R.E had no chance in Hell. The game bills itself as a "classic" ...
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Batman: Arkham Asylum
6:00 PM on 08.27.2009
Finding a licensed superhero game which stays true to the source material while still managing to be fun is ridiculously hard. Just ask a fan of Superman how they feel about the assorted att...
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Wolfenstein
5:00 PM on 08.23.2009
Nobody likes Nazis. Apart from German people, obviously. That's why it's always so much fun to shoot them, and why you can't keep the Wolfenstein franchise down. id Software, Raven Software, Pi S...
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Tales of Monkey Island, Chapter 2
6:00 PM on 08.20.2009
Telltale games kicked off their Tales of Monkey Island episodic series with a bang in "Launch of the Screaming Narwhal." We came away very impressed with the inaugural effort, praising ...
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Shadow Complex
1:00 PM on 08.19.2009
Chair Entertainment's Shadow Complex is out today on Xbox LIVE Arcade for 1200 MS Points, or 15 American dollars. It's a "Metroidvania"-style side-scroller, heavily influenced by Super ...
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Darkest Fear (iPhone)
2:00 PM on 08.18.2009
With the constant flood of casual iPhone titles out there these days, it's easy to find yourself never interested in another overly bright and cheerful puzzle game or witty tower defense title ag...
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Madden NFL 10
6:00 PM on 08.17.2009
After a short run against the Washington Redskins, the dreaded notice came up: “B. [Brandon] Jacobs is going to be evaluated by team doctors.” The New York Giants subbed in their smal...
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Trials HD
2:00 PM on 08.17.2009
At first glance, Trials HD didn't look like my type of game. It's sort of a hybrid racing game/physics puzzler with a heavy emphasis on demanding perfection. Skill-based games like this aren't ex...
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Wii Sports Resort
2:00 PM on 08.13.2009
The Wii Series (Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Wii Music, and so on) often gets a lot of flak from the gaming community at large because of the games' accessibility. Now the newest entry of the series is ...
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TMNT: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled
6:00 PM on 08.11.2009
It wasn’t hard to fall in love with Konami’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time when you were eight years old. The brawler allowed you to pick your bipedal turtle of choice...
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Space Bust-A-Move
6:00 PM on 08.11.2009
Ah, Bust-A-Move. No matter how many incarnations of the little game seem to come about, I'm always interested in playing another one and losing myself in that mindless but addictive puzzle action...
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Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition (iPhone)
2:00 PM on 08.11.2009
Since the initial “wink, wink” line, we all knew that Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition was bound for the App Store. Launching on July 22nd, we were told that this version of t...
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Shatter
6:00 PM on 08.10.2009
They say you're never more than six feet away from an Breakout clone. Or is it rats? Either way, there are a lot of games that like to copy paddle-and-ball gameplay while hoping you won't remembe...
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Taxiball (Update)
11:40 AM on 08.10.2009
Our original review of Taxiball was flawed. As explained by a Self-Aware Games developer, the iPhone 3.0 software update crippled movement in the game, and his studio was kept from putting out a ...
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Fallout 3 'Mothership Zeta' DLC
6:00 PM on 08.07.2009
"Mothership Zeta," the fifth and final piece of downloadable content for Fallout 3, looked really promising. Being abducted by aliens sounded fantastic, and the thought of exploring ano...
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Little League World Series Baseball 2009
2:00 PM on 08.07.2009
Being Destructoid's unofficial "Wii guy" has its perks and its pitfalls. It's nice to get first dibs on reviewing awesome games like Little King's Story and Bit.Trip Core, but when a Wi...
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Remote Masseuse
2:00 PM on 08.06.2009
There’s a growing trend on Xbox LIVE Community Games. Developers are creating silly applications and clunky tools for entertainment purposes instead of games. I won’t pretend to know ...
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Bookworm Adventures 2
6:00 PM on 08.05.2009
Before I begin my review of Bookworm Adventures Volume 2, I have a dirty confession to make. As a games blogger, I know I really should have played every game ever made, but you know, I haven't. ...
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Wallace and Gromit: The Bogey Man
2:00 PM on 08.05.2009
For every beginning there is an end; for every initial episode of a new, adorable Telltale Games episodic series, there is a finale.For better or worse, the fourth episode of Wallace and Gromit's...
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Fat Princess
6:00 PM on 08.04.2009
Fat Princess has been a long time coming. As an online-focused, cartoon-like game full of humor and violence, it could realistically be seen as the PSN's answer to Castle Crashers (at least until...
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Space Invaders: Infinity Gene
1:40 PM on 08.04.2009
You may have noticed that I've been anticipating Taito's Space Invaders: Infinity Gene pretty heavily since it was first announced for the iPhone. Originally released in Japan on mobile phones th...
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Marvel Vs Capcom 2
2:00 PM on 07.31.2009
Gonna take you for a ride. Dear God, that song. Some of us have had it stuck in our heads for nearly a decade now, and if you haven't, let us be the first to welcome you to our little club with t...
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The King of Fighters XII
2:00 PM on 07.28.2009
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The old Dickens passage might never have applied so well to a videogame as it does the release of SNK Playmore and Ignition Entertainment's KO...
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Madballs in Babo Invasion
2:00 PM on 07.27.2009
Licensed retail games are bad enough, but nothing exemplifies "cheap crap" quite like Xbox Live Arcade. With lower expectations come far lower standards, and it's so very easy to churn ...
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Little King's Story
6:00 PM on 07.23.2009
Little King's Story is a new game from the creative minds behind Super Mario RPG, Final Fantasy VII, and Harvest Moon. A superstar collaboration of this nature would be the stuff of non-stop disc...
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Unbound Saga
6:00 PM on 07.22.2009
The brawler was looking like a type of game that would never return, thanks to the evolving tastes of gamers and demand for more complex, deeper control schemes. Fortunately, digital distribution...
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Peripherally speaking: Novint Falcon
4:40 PM on 07.22.2009
To be perfectly honest, I never fully understood the appeal of massive, costly videogame controllers. How can someone justify spending so much on a gadget that only works with a few games? I woul...
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Roogoo: Twisted Towers
2:00 PM on 07.22.2009
For the people who played Roogoo on Xbox LIVE Arcade (the game's original platform), they discovered a challenging little puzzle game with an addictive multiplayer that could get you yelling at y...
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BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
6:00 PM on 07.21.2009
When I read the "word" BlazBlue, I immediately hear Bill Cosby in my head babbling a "Blazem Blazblue Blippity BLOP". Did Bill Cosby ever actually say anything like that, or i...
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Treasure World
6:00 PM on 07.20.2009
How can you review a "game" that you pretty much know everything about within five minutes of "playing"? In fact, how can you review a "game" that you need to use qu...
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'Splosion Man
2:00 PM on 07.20.2009
Twisted Pixel pushed its way onto the Xbox LIVE Arcade scene earlier this year with The Maw. An original title based on an original IP, we thought it was pretty damned impressive for the studio's...
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Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
4:30 PM on 07.18.2009
Let’s rewind to E3 2009. I’m inside LucasArts’ conference room. I’m a few minutes early for the Star Wars: The Old Republic presentation. They have food and drink in both ...
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The Conduit
6:00 PM on 07.17.2009
The Conduit is a game with baggage. After it was first announced last year, it quickly become a symbol to game-fans on either side of the "Wii divide". Many people who hate the Wii wan...
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Kodu Game Lab
2:00 PM on 07.16.2009
After being involved in the creative process of a few indie games, I've acquired quite a taste for game making. I now feel that I won't be completely satiated until I make a game all on my own. T...
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Peripherally Speaking: Aviator
7:40 PM on 07.14.2009
It’s been a long time since I’ve used a good flight stick. Even more time has passed since I’ve put a good one between my mighty thighs. When Mad Catz sent Destructoid Saitek&rs...
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Peripherally Speaking: Nyko's Perfect Shot
2:00 PM on 07.14.2009
Three things you should know about me before reading this: I hate doing stuff I don't feel like doing (some call it laziness, I call it "strong willed"), I'm a sucker for free stuff, an...
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Battlefield 1943
6:00 PM on 07.13.2009
Electronic Arts Digital Illusion CE’s Battlefield 1943 is a bite-sized downloadable title based upon the foundation of the Battlefield series. In the game, two teams compete for flags with ...
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Peripherally Speaking: DSi TekCase (contains extra battery)
4:00 PM on 07.13.2009
Anyone that listens to RetroforceGo! regularly knows that I have been absent for many an episode due to being on a plane in transit to one place or another (in fact, the joke was that whenever I ...
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Destructoid Pangya: Fantasy Golf
2:00 PM on 07.13.2009
Imagine a golf game like, say, Hot Shots Golf, but with an over-the-top presentation and an RPG-ish layout and story. Oh, and have it starring a cast containing scantily clad girl pirates, huge-b...
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Overlord: Minions
6:00 PM on 07.12.2009
Codemasters definitely pushed the boat out with its Overlord franchise this summer. Following the surprising success of the original game, this year saw three games in the series release simultan...
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Peripherally Speaking: Transformers DS Lite case and stylus
2:00 PM on 07.12.2009
With any massive, soon-to-be-forgotten, Hollywood summer blockbuster, there must come a slew of crappy merchandise with only vague links to the source material. So it is that I somehow have in my...
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LEGO Battles
8:00 PM on 07.11.2009
I would have thought by now that more developers would be capitalizing on the Nintendo DS for RTS games. The touchscreen input method should lend itself handily to designating targets and directi...
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Bit.Trip Core
2:00 PM on 07.11.2009
We really liked Bit.Trip Beat. Combining old-school gameplay with an awesomely neo-retro aesthetic and just plain awe-inspiring level design, this first installment of Gaijin Games' new WiiWare s...
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Fight Night Round 4
6:00 PM on 07.10.2009
The audience for most sports simulations tends to be limited to die-hard fans of the sport in question. But boxing is something that seems to have much higher crossover appeal; perhaps boxing gam...
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The Punisher: No Mercy
2:00 PM on 07.10.2009
I’m no fan of The Punisher. The last comic I read starring Frank West Castle had to deal with dinosaurs and Wolverine. So, I’m a little behind. Still, I can appreciate The Punisher&rs...
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
6:00 PM on 07.09.2009
Let's not beat about the bush: Revenge of the Fallen is a typically rushed licensed game intended to coincide with an awful movie that shamelessly rapes your fondest childhood memories. It does t...
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Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
6:00 PM on 07.08.2009
The original Call of Juarez had to be played to be believed. An alternately awful and incredible mixture of poorly designed levels with an incredible attention to pacing, narrative, and character...
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Peripherally Speaking: Tournament Edition FightStick
3:40 PM on 07.08.2009
You may remember the Mad Catz Street Fighter IV Tournament Edition FightStick. It was released in limited quantities when the fighting game debuted in February. Hungry players pre-ordered the joy...
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Mega Man Starforce 3
2:00 PM on 07.08.2009
When you've been around for as long as Mega Man, the chances of you jumping the shark tend to increase with each passing year. Thus it was that we had the Battle Network alternate universe, where...
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Tales of Monkey Island, Chapter 1
2:00 PM on 07.07.2009
Escape from Monkey Island wasn’t terrible, but it certainly had its share of problems. Released in 2000 for the PC (and 2001 for the PS2), the last Monkey Island title was a mash of old-sch...
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Trine (single-player)
6:00 PM on 07.06.2009
We've been following Trine for a while now, and with good reason: a game that provides mishmash of platforming, action, and physics-based puzzle solving involving three different instantly interc...
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Peripherally Speaking: NZXT Cryo LX notebook cooler
4:00 PM on 07.06.2009
I have a laptop. It is, in fact, my only computer since leaving the United Kingdom for the United States. I use it for all my work, as well as any gaming that I happen to do. It doesn't have the ...
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Droplitz
2:00 PM on 07.06.2009
I wonder if people will look at the above screenshot and say, "oh, it's another puzzle game," and just scroll on past to the next bit of news or info. I would understand that inclinatio...
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Mad Dog McCree Gunslinger Pack
2:00 PM on 07.03.2009
FMV-based games with live actors are something of a guilty pleasure for me. There's nothing more overtly kitschy, yet weirdly enjoyable than seeing an underpaid, underenthusiastic actor recite aw...
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Overlord II
6:00 PM on 07.02.2009
Overlord was one of my favorite games of 2007. Its unique gameplay, evil-minded focus and silly sense of humor outshone the technical issues and awkward controls to create a fun and memorable tit...
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Yosumin Live!
2:00 PM on 07.02.2009
I'm a bit of an addict when it comes to puzzle games and have a nasty habit of simply buying whatever titles within the genre crop up on the download services. So it was that I picked up Yosumin ...
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Let's Tap
6:00 PM on 07.01.2009
I was fortunate enough to have a good friend pass me a copy of the Let's Tap soundtrack almost immediately after its Japanese release, and for months it was by far the most often-played CD in my ...
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Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Wii)
2:00 PM on 07.01.2009
Are you troubled by strange noises in the middle of the night? Do you experience feelings of dread in your basement or attic? Have you or your family ever seen a spook, specter or ghost?If the an...
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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 (Wii)
6:00 PM on 06.30.2009
You wouldn't think that a golf videogame would be a good platform to show off new gaming technology, but it turns out that Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 is a perfect showcase for Nintendo's Wii MotionP...
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Battlefield Heroes
2:00 PM on 06.27.2009
Is it just me, or did Battlefield Heroes' release yesterday come seemingly out of nowhere? A few months ago, I couldn't turn around without seeing an interview or a news story about the open beta...
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The Munchables
6:00 PM on 06.26.2009
The Munchables is a kids game, but you know what? Almost all games are kids games. I recently had the opportunity to play Dead Rising, GTA 4, and Halo 3 with the less-than-ten-year-old children o...
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Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled
2:00 PM on 06.26.2009
The thing about old school RPGs is that, no matter how bad they are, so long as they contain plenty of grinding, a high encounter rate and the exact same tropes we've seen in the genre for the pa...
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Magic: The Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers
6:00 PM on 06.25.2009
Late last summer, we received official word that a Magic: The Gathering Xbox LIVE Arcade title was slated for release. At the time of the announcement, I was learning the game. Figuring out how t...
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Heavy Weapon: Atomic Tank (PSN)
2:00 PM on 06.25.2009
Heavy Weapon has been available since the beginning of time. It was released in 2005, well before humans emerged as the dominant life form on Earth. In 2007, PopCap Games updated Heavy Weapon, ap...
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Let's Catch
1:20 PM on 06.25.2009
In 1963, Alfred Hitchcock directed a horror film about birds. Not super-strong hulk birds, or vagina dentata mouthed devil-birds, just regular birds. Pretty weak subject matter for a horror film,...
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Swords & Soldiers
6:00 PM on 06.24.2009
Swords & Soldiers came out for WiiWare last week and I had no idea it even existed (I should probably read Destructoid more often). Frankly, the idea of a 2D side-scrolling RTS was something ...
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Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires
6:00 PM on 06.23.2009
Dynasty Warriors games aren't exactly known for their critical acclaim, but at least one subset of the series has always managed to win favor with the press. Empires is a strategic expansion to t...
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Destructoid Devil Survivor
2:00 PM on 06.23.2009
So there you are with your friends, hanging out in Shibuya, Tokyo, minding your own business. Your chesty friend Yuzu (nicknamed Yoohoo) was busy being...well, chesty, while your nerdy friend Ats...
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Damnation
6:00 PM on 06.22.2009
What do you get if you marry Gears of War shooting action and Prince of Persia acrobatics, wrapping the whole creation up in a post-apocalyptic steampunk aesthetic? You should get something absol...
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Fuel
2:00 PM on 06.22.2009
When Codemasters publishes a racing game, I usually head for the hills. Not because Codemasters publishes bad racing games, but because I'm bad at Codemasters' racing games. GRID practically requ...
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Eduardo the Samurai Toaster
6:00 PM on 06.21.2009
Okay, here's the thing -- I'm biased. Well, maybe not biased, but I certainly have my preferences. Those preferences include 2D games, platformers, run-and-gun shooters, and games made by small, ...
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Clover
6:00 PM on 06.19.2009
Clover is one of those games that would immediately catch the eye of a certain type of gamer -- that is, the gamer always on the lookout for something slightly different than the rest of what's o...
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Ghostbusters
2:00 PM on 06.19.2009
In 1991, had we been given the opportunity to join the Ghostbusters as an “Experimental Equipment Technician,” we probably would have jumped at the chance. It’s a job that would...
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Prototype
6:00 PM on 06.18.2009
Radical Entertainment's Prototype has been a long time coming. The promise of shape-shifting slaughter in an open world was met with an equal mix of excitement and trepidation from gamers, but th...
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Destructoid Galaga Remix (iPhone)
2:00 PM on 06.18.2009
What is this? An iPhone game that controls perfectly fine, with no complaints connected to the lack of a d-pad or buttons? I know! I almost couldn't believe it myself. And a port of a classic gam...
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inFAMOUS
6:00 PM on 06.17.2009
Open world superhero games have so much potential that it's actually surprising we haven't had as many as we have so far. We've seen licensed games such as Spiderman, MMOs in City of Heroes and, ...
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Flight Control
2:00 PM on 06.17.2009
Note to self: never play a game called Flight Control while at an airport and immediately before your own flight leaves. Sure, the game may be cute and light on violence, but watching planes coll...
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Wallace and Gromit: Muzzled!
6:00 PM on 06.16.2009
Ah, Wallace and Gromit's Grand Adventures. With half your season already complete, what will you offer us in the final two episodes? We've already taken on mutated bees and unruly houseguests -- ...
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Red Faction: Guerrilla
2:00 PM on 06.16.2009
With so many recent open-world games -- inFAMOUS, Prototype, and Red Faction: Guerrilla -- I can feel myself beginning to grow tired of the genre. Not because any of them are bad, but because the...
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Peripherally Speaking: Nyko's Wii Wand controller
3:20 PM on 06.15.2009
You hear people saying that the Wii is at its best as a social console; the success and popularity of Wii Sports speaks volumes to support this. So while the Wii console itself only ships with a ...
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Zen Pinball
2:00 PM on 06.15.2009
Pinball is a game where a little metal ball is made to hit things on a slanted table and kept from falling into a hole by tiny paddles that the player controllers with two buttons. Points are acq...
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Boom Blox Bash Party
6:00 PM on 06.12.2009
The first time I sat down with my review copy of Boom Blox Bash Party was late one weekday evening. Post-work. Post-supper. Post-motivation. I had grown bored with that evening's nighttime televi...
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Burnout Paradise 'Big Surf Island' DLC
2:00 PM on 06.12.2009
With Criterion Games constantly providing such a steady stream of add-ons, Burnout Paradise seems to have more in common with a platform than an actual videogame.The core experience has evolved t...
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Rock Band Unplugged
6:13 PM on 06.11.2009
For the life of me, I’ll never understand why Harmonix’s Frequency and Amplitude weren’t commercial hits. The titles featured a solid and fun beat-matching mechanic, and were bo...
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Star Defense
2:00 PM on 06.11.2009
Star Defense is an appropriately titled tower defense game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. In the game -- and I hope you can read my boredom -- you build towers in order to protect a mining colony...
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Class of Heroes
9:00 PM on 06.10.2009
If you're reading a review of an Atlus game because you're a fan of any of their other titles, you may have some idea what to expect: beautifully drawn characters, old school fundmentals and ofte...
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Zoomaroom
2:00 PM on 06.10.2009
Zoomaroom generated a decent amount of critical buzz when it was released for Xbox LIVE Community Games. Since then, we’ve learned what to expect from the platform and perhaps raised our co...
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Destructoid Knights in the Nightmare
6:00 PM on 06.08.2009
You've never played anything like Knights in the Nightmare. How can I be so sure? Well, every time I try to explain the game play, I find that I have to explain it twice, even to seasoned gamers....
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Toki Tori
2:00 PM on 06.08.2009
It’s been, uh ... never since I last played a puzzle platformer starring a chicken. Don’t get me wrong; I’ve always wanted to, but the opportunity has never presented itself. We...
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Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
6:00 PM on 05.28.2009
It's been a long time since a home console saw a true-blue Diablo-style RPG. While there have been plenty of Japanese RPGs, and Western open-world role-players such as the Elder Scrolls games, a ...
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PS3 games are the best, as stated by RESEARCH!
2:40 PM on 05.28.2009
Analysts care not whether they fan the flames of fanboy rage, so it is that EEDAR has published research -- seemingly for no other reason than to start sh*t -- showing that PlayStation 3 games ge...
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Terminator: Salvation
6:00 PM on 05.27.2009
I have always had a certain fondness for the Terminator films, even though I struggle almost daily with the way time travel apparently worked in the series. Maybe they're using some sort of non-l...
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Gel, Set & Match
2:00 PM on 05.27.2009
Over three billion years ago (Standard Internet Time), I was hopelessly addicted to Lumines. After burning out -- it took a few weeks -- I put down the genre for a good clip. I regret that decisi...
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Bionic Commando
6:00 PM on 05.22.2009
Bionic Commando is a game I think very few of us ever saw coming. Sure, the NES game is a classic and very popular with American audiences but it had been so long that it was hard to imagine a fo...
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Star Trek D-A-C
6:00 PM on 05.21.2009
Shame. It’s what I feel whenever someone asks me what I think about the new Star Trek movie. Before you jump to conclusions, let me just say, I haven’t seen it yet. My shame is purely...
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Velvet Assassin
8:30 PM on 05.19.2009
This review does not have a score attached to it. After playing up to the fourth chapter, I had enough of what has been among the most miserable gameplay experiences of my life. Apparently we are...
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Excitebots: Trick Racing
2:00 PM on 05.19.2009
Like Animal Crossing: City Folk, Excitebots: Trick Racing's name fails to even remotely describe what the game is really about. From its title alone, one could easily infer that Excitebots: Trick...
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Punch-Out!!
6:00 PM on 05.18.2009
It’s criminal that Nintendo let 15 years pass between the Super Nintendo release of Super Punch-Out!! and Punch-Out!! on the Wii. Between then and now, there have been plenty of opportuniti...
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Dig Dug Remix (iPhone)
2:00 PM on 05.18.2009
I love Dig Dug. Somehow, Namco's 1980s arcade game has stuck with me over the years, managing to hold its own against these newfangled console games and their photo-realistic graphics. There's ju...
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Peripherally Speaking: Energizer Power and Play chargers
6:00 PM on 05.15.2009
As you may have guessed already (thanks header) I recently got my hands on the Energizer Power & Play chargers for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. I didn’t do any durability tests (no c...
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Klonoa
6:00 PM on 05.14.2009
In a time where non-human heroes were a commonplace thing, a long eared catrabbit carved a small niche into the hearts of gamers. Klonoa was never the world's most famous anthropomorphic videogam...
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Trixel
2:00 PM on 05.14.2009
I've come to really love my iPhone for the bouts of quick and easy gaming it can provide, which comes in especially handy for impatient moments such as waiting in line at the bank. I have a modes...
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New Play Control! Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
6:00 PM on 05.13.2009
New Play Control! Donkey Kong Jungle Beat is the first Wii port that actually has less in the way of motion controls than its source material. Whereas the GameCube iteration of Donkey Kong Jungle...
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Banjo-Tooie (XBLA)
2:00 PM on 05.13.2009
I don't know, but I've been toldBanjo-Tooie is kind of oldBut now it's back on XBLAShould you go out and get it today?Read on for the answer!
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Resistance: Retribution
6:00 PM on 05.12.2009
Resistance: Retribution has been getting a lot of love for taking all the features of a console game and transporting it to the handheld realm of the PSP. The fellows at Sony Bend have done a gre...
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Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon
2:00 PM on 05.12.2009
Atlus' Shin Megami Tensei world is a vast one. As of late it seems to be growing in popularity, but what may be the most interesting and unique side of the SMT world has likely seen the least num...
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Fable II 'See the Future' DLC
2:00 PM on 05.11.2009
I recently had the opportunity to play through Lionhead Studios’ second expansion for Fable II, “See the Future.” It’s a brutally short bit of downloadable content that I ...
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine
6:00 PM on 05.08.2009
We all know the story when it comes to videogames based on movies. Rushed out of the gate to coincide with the theatrical release, lazily put together to cash in and make a quick buck off the bac...
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Wallace and Gromit: The Last Resort
2:00 PM on 05.07.2009
The second episode in the Wallace and Gromit series of adventure games from Telltale released this week. When Anthony and I looked at the first episode, Fright of the Bumblebees, he was willing t...
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Plants vs. Zombies
2:00 PM on 05.05.2009
There's one surefire way to amp up the cool factor of pretty much any game on the market, and that's to add zombies. With PopCap's newest offering, Plants vs. Zombies, this winning recipe also ad...
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Corsair
6:00 PM on 05.04.2009
I have a few gaming regrets. One of those is my neglect of space shooters. I didn’t really get into the genre until I was much older, when the multidirectional dual-stick shooter became the...
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Eliss
2:00 PM on 05.04.2009
I love it when developers “get it.” The iPhone isn’t a toy and shouldn’t be treated as such. I get grouchy whenever I play a title that uses an on-screen directional pad a...
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Peripherally Speaking: A DS stylus that looks like Yoshi
6:00 PM on 05.03.2009
[Peripherally Speaking is a new series of reviews in which we take a look at hardware and peripherals designed to improve the gaming experience, from handheld accessories to home console enhancem...
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Peripherally Speaking: NERF Armor for DS Lite
6:00 PM on 05.02.2009
[Peripherally Speaking is a new series of reviews in which we take a look at hardware and peripherals designed to improve the gaming experience, from handheld accessories to home console enhancem...
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Patapon 2
2:00 PM on 05.01.2009
So, Patapon 2 is Sony’s big UMD-less release. Since we got an early copy, I thought it would be cool to talk (briefly) about how you go about getting the game on your PlayStation Port...
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Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce
6:00 PM on 04.28.2009
It's no secret that the Dynasty Warriors series could do with some new life injected into it. Even as a fan of the series, I recognize that Koei has done little to keep the franchise fresh, and t...
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Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier [boobs]
3:40 PM on 04.28.2009
I'm guessing there are two types of people will seek out this long-named DS game. The first are the Super Robot Wars fans that follow Banpresto's strategy role-playing titles, some of which need ...
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Rune Factory: Frontier
6:00 PM on 04.27.2009
There are certain games that barely need to be reviewed. A simple "If you like this sort of thing, you'll like this game" is all anyone really needs to know. I'm talking about games lik...
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Fast & Furious The Game
2:00 PM on 04.27.2009
Ah, games starring Vin Diesel. I recently had the chance to play Fast & Furious The Game, a licensed title for the iPhone. I didn’t see much of the muscle-bound star in the game, unfort...
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Ninja Blade
2:00 PM on 04.25.2009
What do you get if you combined Ninjas, hardcore combat sensibilities, wall-running and Quick-Time-Events? It sounds pretty much like an amalgamation of every action game to have been released in...
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Clock 24-7
2:00 PM on 04.24.2009
The Xbox Live Community Games channel empowers budding game developers to create their own blockbuster titles in the hopes of attracting attention and one day becoming the next Shigeru Miyamoto. ...
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Bad reviews made Force Unleashed devs unhappy
12:40 PM on 04.23.2009
Nobody likes to get a bad review, not least the team who worked on last year's Star Wars hopeful, The Force Unleashed. It's clear that the team worked incredibly hard on making the game look impr...
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The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai
6:00 PM on 04.22.2009
It has been over a year since gamers were given the opportunity to check out the XNA Community Games demo and I think it's safe to say that one game clearly outshined all of the competition. The ...
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Burn Zombie Burn
2:00 PM on 04.22.2009
Zombies are great aren't they? Damn right they are. As enemies of humanity they are persistent, deadly and singularly driven to accomplish their goals. As mirrors into the soul of mankind, they a...
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Zeno Clash
6:00 PM on 04.21.2009
The wait is finally over! Zeno Clash is out today, and if what I’ve heard in IRC and the forums is any indication, this game is hotly anticipated. It first entered the world as an obscure a...
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Destructoid Valkyria Chronicles DLC
2:00 PM on 04.21.2009
There are two kinds of PS3 owners in the world: those who have bought Valkyria Chronicles, and the ignorant majority who know not of the remarkably action/strategy/RPG combo we here at Destructoi...
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Demigod
6:00 PM on 04.20.2009
As you may have heard, Demigod was released almost a week before the official date by Gamestop. As a result, the folks at Stardock ended up rushing the game out so that everyone who bought it cou...
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Super Yum Yum 3
2:00 PM on 04.20.2009
While some gamers pile scorn on the casual gaming market, I've long since pulled the stick out of my ass and left that attitude behind as the right type of game in this genre can totally win my h...
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TNA Wrestling
2:00 PM on 04.17.2009
A few years ago, my friends and I would have huge wrestling game parties thanks to the long line of absolutely rockin’ Nintendo 64 titles. We’d stay up all night, giggling like little...
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The Dark Spire
6:00 PM on 04.14.2009
If you were born in the eighties (or did your retro homework), you may have have fond memories of a little Commodore 64 game by the name of Wizardry. I was only four years old when it came out, b...
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Assault on Dark Athena
2:00 PM on 04.14.2009
You’re probably wondering why we haven’t reviewed The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena until now. Well, wonder no more. Blame our lack of coverage on germs, man.Late last...
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Art Style: AQUIA
6:00 PM on 04.13.2009
There was a point in my life when I was sure I'd never see a truly new "color matching" puzzle game ever again. This was around the time that Snood got immensely popular, despite the fa...
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FF Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time
2:00 PM on 04.11.2009
The Crystal Chronicles series of games has never really seemed to catch on, despite having the prestigious Final Fantasy name attached to it. That might have something to do with them rarely bein...
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Wildfire Wireless Controller
2:00 PM on 04.10.2009
Mortal Kombat II turned me on to third-party peripherals. When I was a young lad, I couldn’t beat Shang Tsung. My memory is fuzzy, but I’m pretty sure that I rarely even progressed pa...
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Godfather II
2:00 PM on 04.09.2009
While Electronic Arts’ Godfather II shares a name with the 1974 film, it’s a bit unfair to compare the two. Francis Ford Coppola's sequel is widely considered one of the greatest film...
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Lux-Pain
6:00 PM on 04.08.2009
What the hell?That is the predominant sentiment that one takes away from a session with Lux-Pain. What the hell is this? What the hell is supposed to be happening? What the hell am I doing with m...
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WarioWare: Snapped!
2:00 PM on 04.08.2009
The DSi is officially out in stores, and so far the thing is selling like crazy. It's strange for a console that has so few true exclusives at launch to be so hot. Thus far, the only games you ca...
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Sway
6:40 PM on 04.07.2009
Sometimes, introductions don’t come easy. I’ve had this one on the back burner for over two days. I have around 150-350 words to sell you on clicking the link to our review if you&rsq...
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Hammerin' Hero
2:00 PM on 04.07.2009
So Japan needs a hero? I guess. I dunno. I think America needs the hero right now. Hell, the PSP needs a old-school platforming hero just as bad. And I think we might just have one with Gen, the ...
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Peggle Dual Shot
2:20 PM on 04.06.2009
You may not know this, but in the world of game writing/journalism/blogging, PopCap's puzzle game series Peggle would probably be called the unofficial time waster. Lots of us play it. It's like ...
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Wheelman
6:00 PM on 04.05.2009
Midway Studios Newcastle's/Tigon Studios’ Wheelman is an open-world action title. In it, you control a digital Vin Diesel named Milo. He’s good at driving and doesn’t mind killi...
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Tokyo Beat Down
10:00 PM on 04.02.2009
Back in the day, side-scrolling beat-em-ups were all the rage. You always played as some kind of cop or hero out to save a corrupt city by taking out the bad guys one at a time, armed only with y...
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Rhythm Heaven
2:00 PM on 04.02.2009
Dale North and I tried our best to try to convince you that you needed to import a copy of Rhythm Tengoku Gold for the Nintendo DS back in September of last year, and you know, if you didn't buy ...
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Bit.Trip Beat
8:00 AM on 03.29.2009
Out of all the games that make up this "retro-revival" thing that's going on right now, Bit.Trip Beat is probably the "retro-est." Like the Geometry Wars games, Bit.Trip Beat ...
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Suikoden Tierkreis
6:30 PM on 03.27.2009
Konami's Suikoden series is one of the most venerable and respected RPGs of all time, which is quite a feat considering some titles in the series have become such rare and expensive collector's i...
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WordFu
3:40 PM on 03.26.2009
You can’t spell “bubbles” with Locust viscera in Epic’s Gears of War 2, and you can’t scribble “pregnant” on a wall in Monolith’s F.E.A.R. 2: Proje...
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Wallace and Gromit: Fright of the Bumblebees
2:00 PM on 03.26.2009
To know Wallace and Gromit is to love Wallace and Gromit -- and if you do not know Wallace and Gromit, then you can objectively be said to have led an incomplete life. Endlessly funny, cleve...
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Zombieville USA
6:00 PM on 03.25.2009
I eat a salad for lunch every day of the week. It always has the same components: light ranch, a sprinkle of feta, romaine lettuce, bits of white onion, a few raisins, and seven croutons. Eating ...
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Tritton's AX Pro headset
12:00 PM on 03.25.2009
I have a hard time hearing female voices. The disability has its advantages, especially when my girlfriend is nagging me about cleaning up the office. (She always says something like “waffl...
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MadWorld
6:00 PM on 03.24.2009
When I was 19, my two favorite comic books were Sin City and Hellboy, and my three favorite movies were Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn, Dolemite (link NSFW), and Escape from New York. Knowing that, ju...
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MLB 09 The Show
2:00 PM on 03.24.2009
The start of the 2009 Major League Baseball season is less than two weeks away, and I couldn’t be more excited. The World Baseball Classic, which ended in a thrilling 5-3 extra-inning victo...
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Topple 2
1:00 PM on 03.24.2009
Does anyone even mess with multiplayer iPhone gaming? After I finished playing ngmoco’s Topple 2 single-player, I booted up the versus mode to find that I needed an opponent on the same Wi-...
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Destructoid Marble Saga Kororinpa
6:00 PM on 03.23.2009
The original Kororinpa:Marble Mania may have been a very simple game, but I can honestly say I enjoyed it more than anything else that came out for the Wii that year. A no-frills challenge combin...
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Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
6:00 PM on 03.21.2009
Among the Brain Training and Imagine games, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars just doesn't seem to fit. Titles about drug-dealing Chinese murderers don't seem quite at home on a system endorsed by...
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Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard
6:30 PM on 03.20.2009
It's not often that you can play a full-length videogame that exists as nothing more than one big self-referential in-joke. At the very least, Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard deserves attenti...
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geoDefense (iPhone)
2:00 PM on 03.20.2009
If you're a relatively new iPhone user, or even if you’ve had one for a while but find the game selection overwhelming, you may wish you had a guide to help you figure out which games are w...
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Peggle (XBLA)
6:00 PM on 03.19.2009
There are a lot of things I could be doing on Xbox Live at the moment. I could be playing Resident Evil 5’s Mercenaries Mode. I could be smacking Ken in his red devil mouth with well-timed ...
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Metal Gear Solid Touch
2:00 PM on 03.19.2009
Apple's App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch has proven to be irresistible to game developers, and it seems like it's only a matter of time before all the popular PC and console gaming franchi...
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Gradius Rebirth
6:00 PM on 03.16.2009
Just like with 2D fighting games, there are basically two types of shmup fans: those who love them primarily for the fun of developing the skills required to play them with any modicum of success...
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Blue Dragon Plus
2:00 PM on 03.15.2009
Blue Dragon for the Xbox 360 was supposed to be incredibly excellent. It was created by the folks at Mistwalker, backed up by the pedigree of some of the most recognizable names in the JRPG world...
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Resident Evil 5
11:00 AM on 03.14.2009
At last, Resident Evil 5 has hit store shelves. The follow-up to the incredibly well-received Resident Evil 4, the hype and expectations around the title have been out of control.You've read the ...
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Onslaught
6:00 PM on 03.13.2009
When the Wii was first announced, a lot of people were like, "ZOMG! Swing a controller like it's a really sword! All my dreams have been fulfilled!" That's not how I felt. The first thi...
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Star Ocean: The Last Hope
6:00 PM on 03.11.2009
Ah, another day, another RPG. It's easy to feel that way with all the genre's releases as of late (and it makes me a bit nostalgic for the days in which I would patiently wait through the months ...
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Peggle Nights
4:00 PM on 03.09.2009
So, yeah, I was one of those guys who never played Peggle. Generally, I find casual stuff sickly simple, easily digestible and full of bad design decisions. Just when you’re getting into th...
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Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection
2:00 PM on 03.07.2009
Sega has an amazing legacy and a library of fantastic, cherished franchises that remain among the most memorable experiences in gaming history. Then we get something like Shadow the Hedgehog, and...
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Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero?
2:00 PM on 03.06.2009
Dood! So, like, there's this game, dood, where you get to play as the Prinnies! They're, like, the heroes, dood! I guess that's because they have to be, otherwise Master Etna will kill them...So,...
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Ubisoft is the 'least consistent' publisher according to Metacritic
8:30 PM on 03.05.2009
A new study of Metacritic data suggests that Ubisoft, aka the Activision of Europe, is the least consistent publisher when it comes to game quality, coming bottom of the pile, while Rockstar triu...
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X-Blades
6:00 PM on 03.05.2009
X-Blades and I have had a deeply personal journey in the months leading up to its release. Publisher Southpeak loves sending me screenshots of the game as some sort of celestial punishment for a ...
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TrackMania DS
2:20 PM on 03.05.2009
How long has it been since you've just raced in a racing game? And I'm not talking about precise racing lines in the latest ultra-realistic sim, or throwing out banana peels from your cart in a p...
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Watchmen: The End is Nigh
2:00 PM on 03.04.2009
Can you smell it? That's Watchmen fever -- it's in the air! Or maybe it's money. Because with the Zack Snyder's Watchmen film adapation hitting the theaters this week, there sure is a lot of mark...
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Killzone 2
6:00 PM on 03.03.2009
The Killzone franchise has earned itself a place as one of gaming's more turbulent properties. All sorts of self-perpetuating controversies seem to spring up in its wake, often providing a disser...
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Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop
2:00 PM on 03.03.2009
Has any game in history ever been bashed as badly as Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop? It's one thing for a game to get bad reviews after the final build is sent out to reviewers, but the situatio...
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Destructoid Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride
6:00 PM on 03.02.2009
Despite the constant grumbling that surrounds remakes, some people are obviously interested enough to keep buying them, proving that someone somewhere is either enjoying the shiny new version or ...
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RACE Pro
2:20 PM on 03.02.2009
I feel like a kid whenever I get my hands on a racing title. I enjoy the wind in my hair, the thrill of high speed, and the blast of an engine. Racing games tend to give me back that indiscretion...
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Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
8:00 PM on 02.27.2009
It's been 14 years since the last Street Fighter film. Ample time has been given for the series to be forgotten by the general populace, and replaced with some rather violent (and awesome) anime....
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3 on 3 NHL Arcade
2:00 PM on 02.27.2009
My formative years were in the golden era of arcade sports games. You didn’t have to give a damn about sports to enjoy the endless fun of early-90s classics like Super Baseball 2020 and Mut...
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Noby Noby Boy
2:20 PM on 02.26.2009
[Editor's Note: The video portion of our review was recorded before Noby Noby Boy unlocked The Moon, which is why we say "you'll get to The Moon." We are now working towards getting o...
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Emerald City Confidential
6:00 PM on 02.25.2009
Point-and-click adventure games may not have the mainstream audience that they used to, but good titles are still being made for the genre. What caught my attention in Emerald City Confidential i...
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Halo Wars
2:00 PM on 02.25.2009
[Editor's note: The original Halo Wars review was written before I had completed the campaign. This is common in our industry, where reviewers have to make a judgment call as to whether or not th...
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GTA IV The Lost and Damned DLC
6:00 PM on 02.24.2009
What was probably the most hyped game of 2008 has unleashed what may be the most hyped DLC of 2009. Now, The Lost and Damned is available on Xbox Live and I've taken time to really put it through...
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