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Retro Review: Mario Party 2 (Wii Virtual Console)

May 11, 2012

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Mario Party is still alive and kicking after nine main entries and a handful of offshoots. Regrettably, it’s now accompanied by increasingly vocal disappointment. Many feel the mini-game quality has degenerated and that the gameplay has become far too focused on chance rather than ability. For those who feel this…

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May 11, 2012

Conception/Love Plus/Opinion/sex/violence

So there’s a little game called Conception: Please Have My Baby that has been released in Japan on the PSP. Amazingly (though likely under a different name), it is coming to the west too. By all accounts it’s a really good game. Produced by Spike Chunsoft, it’s got reliable pedigree…

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May 11, 2012

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Before the days of games being forced to include a multiplayer mode only to flimsily justify a $10 online pass, video game companies and video game retailers appeared to get along. As the only way for distributing their game, maybe video game companies had to get along with video game…

Trailer: Assassin’s Creed III gameplay

May 10, 2012

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That Assassin’s Creed III game is going to be a pretty big release this year, or so we hear. I must admit I still have my reservations about it, since that yearly release cycle has led to a definite degeneration of quality in the series, but hey, this new trailer…

Review: Warp (PS3)

May 10, 2012

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Adorable and he makes people explode? Sold. EA’s Warp is a pretty unique game. One part puzzler, one part stealth adventure, and one part action- and all tied together with a really nice (somewhat old school) coat of paint. Things start off with an alien abduction- but it’s one that…

Journey to Datura in the PSN Update

May 10, 2012

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PS fans get a slightly skimpy week this time around on the the Playstation update, but there’s one possible gem that just might make up for the lack of content. Datura is a first person, PS Move enabled title that almost has an air of Silent Hill to it. In…

The Nintendo Download scores a Sudoku

May 10, 2012

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Not a ton of big name stuff this week, but an infamous little pen and paper time waster makes it’s way to the 3DS. Sudoku by Nikoli comes to the portable from the company that gave the popular number puzzle its name. So if anybody could make a decent electronic…

please-people-support-this-kickstarter

May 10, 2012

Indies/Jason Rohrer/kickstarter/Nintendo DS

I know this isn’t a downloadable game, but Jason Rohrer with Music by Tom Bailey: Diamond Trust of London is a long winded game with a lot of soul. It’s a little artistic Nintendo DS game by a real genius of the medium. It also needs money. $78,715 to be…

Review: Minecraft (Xbox 360)

May 10, 2012

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Minecraft is many things to many people. For some it’s a challenge of survival, eking out a living amongst an environment filled with monsters. For others it’s a therapeutic exercise of repletion – dig and craft, dig and craft – the perfect way to unwind after a day’s hard work.…

Review: Wheels of Destruction (PS3)

May 10, 2012

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Wheels of Destruction adds a slick coat of paint to the tried and true car combat genre. Does it make the grade, or crash and burn? Car combat hasn’t really changed all that much from the earliest days of the genre. If you really think about it, are things all…

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