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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.
Wednesday, October 28 2009
By L.B. Jeffries
The biggest disappointment about the game is how much it fails to actually be an engaging Home Depot commercial.
Monday, October 26 2009
By Arun Subramanian
As much as is possible in this cartoony world, it's difficult not to sympathize with Bowser.
Friday, October 23 2009
By Mike Schiller
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 is one of the first games in which immersion is actually a strike against it.
Wednesday, October 21 2009
By L.B. Jeffries
The game is clearly written by someone who thinks that they’re producing a TV episode or book.
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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?
(more Moving Pixels)
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.
(more Moving Pixels)
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.
(more Worlds in Panels)
Wednesday, November 11 2009
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