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Multimedia
Friday, November 20 2009
By Mike Schiller
DJ Hero treads the line between authentic and artificial in terms of its grasp on DJ culture to a degree that's almost comical.
Wednesday, November 18 2009
By Arun Subramanian
At this point, Pokémon is less a franchise than it is a media juggernaut.
Monday, November 16 2009
By Nick Dinicola
Mini Ninjas doesn’t live up to its own ambitions, but it succeeds where it matters.
Friday, November 13 2009
By Thomas Cross
This could have been the place to really explore issues surrounding the blind following of orders and the terrors of war. But this game plays it safe in every way possible.
Wednesday, November 11 2009
By L.B. Jeffries
Every character in the game is the epitome of a JRPG stereotype because they never do anything to distinguish themselves from it.
Monday, November 9 2009
By Chris Gaerig
Combine lifelike faces with the expansive crowd and referee animations, and you’ve got the most real-to-life sports sim made.
Friday, November 6 2009
By Arun Subramanian
Brütal Legend might actually be the best use of Jack Black yet, affording him a starring role that caters to his comedic roots and sensibilities while allowing everything around him to be more over the top than he is.
Wednesday, November 4 2009
By L.B. Jeffries
If you’re going to claim that a game is about observing animals and taking pictures, there are certain things a person is going to impulsively want to do.
Monday, November 2 2009
By Thomas Cross
It is as if a Saturday morning cartoon had been spun through some kind of faux-intellectual blender.
Friday, October 30 2009
By Chris Gaerig
NHL 2K10 feels like a game made by people who have never played the game of hockey or even watch much of it.
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Wednesday, September 30 2009
By L.B. Jeffries
Spook Country is about America’s loss of innocence, its various ways of remembering the past, and an attempt to find a way of reconciling those memories with the present.
Thursday, June 18 2009
By L.B. Jeffries
The most useful moments for New Games Journalists are ones that occur in multiplayer, describing experiences that could never occur during just a general session of play.
Wednesday, May 27 2009
By Jack Patrick Rodgers
Warts and all, the ambitious push to expand video game storytelling found in Final Fantasy VIII deserves a closer look at this too-often neglected franchise entry.
Friday, November 6 2009
By G. Christopher Williams
Can Gen X parents bond with the newest generation of gamers given the ways that cooperative gameplay has changed over the years?
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Tuesday, October 6 2009
By L.B. Jeffries
Super Metroid is unique in that it is the only game in the series that addresses something distinctly female about Samus besides her looks: motherhood.
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Friday, September 18 2009
By Shaun Huston
Not all comic book adaptations are created equal, especially not when comparing our own imaginings with what actually happens when books are moved from print to screen.
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