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Review: Z.H.P. Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman
My journey with Z.H.P. has been sinusoidal, ranging from crests of delight to troughs of detestation. I’d like to note up front that this game is from Nippon Ichi Software, and as such shares many things in common with their …
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Review: StarDrone
Beatshapers’s long-anticipated Move title StarDrone released earlier this month on the European PlayStation Network. It’s coming soon to the North American store, which is a very good thing. If you’re longing for a reason to dust off your PlayStation Move …
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Review: Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime
There are few things I truly love in this world. Ghostbusters is on that list. I’ve been excited like a little kid since the announcement of this game. Does busting still make me feel good? After installing this title, the …
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Review: Slam Bolt Scrappers
Not since the Street Sharks chomped their way into our hearts in the mid-nineties has such a jawsome junction of ideas made its way onto our TV screens. On March 15th, Fire Hose Games released their flagship title, Slam Bolt …
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Review: Hard Corps: Uprising
As a kid, I would go over to a friend of mine’s house and play Contra: Hard Corps on his Sega Genesis. We’d rarely make it past the first level, but it was always a damn fun time. Now we’ve …
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Review: HOARD (PSP)
Dragons are cool. It is an unassailable fact of existence. Knowing this, Vancouver-based Big Sandwich Games could have easily phoned in any generic dragon game and hoped for a quick buck. Instead they gave us HOARD, an action arcade-strategy (“stratecade”) …
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Review: Aquattack!
Aquattack! is a grid-based match-three (or more) minis title with a fish shtick. Sound familiar? Luckily, this game is more playable than the illfated iFun4all bore-fest. There isn’t much to do here besides for matching multiple fish of the same …
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Review: The Undergarden
Eric got faeries, I got underwater gardening. Fair enough. Booting this one up you’re greeted by your happy little character floating around the hub area. Let’s call him a nymph. I enter the first level portal and get treated to …
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Review- Paper Wars: Cannon Fodder
When a game is consistently referred to by its own developers as the “worst game ever,” it can be easy to approach it with lowered expectations. Right away, however, I was able to tell that Paper Wars was by and …
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Review: You Don’t Know Jack
You Don’t Know Jack used to be my favorite trivia game back in the day. I can remember blowing half a summer back in high school playing through YDKJ: The Ride with a pal. When I heard that the PS3 …
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Review: Z.H.P. Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman
My journey with Z.H.P. has been sinusoidal, ranging from crests of delight to troughs of detestation. I’d like to note up front that this game is from Nippon Ichi Software, and as such shares many things in common with their …
+
Read More
Posted in - Reviews
Review: StarDrone
Beatshapers’s long-anticipated Move title StarDrone released earlier this month on the European PlayStation Network. It’s coming soon to the North American store, which is a very good thing. If you’re longing for a reason to dust off your PlayStation Move …
+
Read More
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Review: Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime
There are few things I truly love in this world. Ghostbusters is on that list. I’ve been excited like a little kid since the announcement of this game. Does busting still make me feel good? After installing this title, the …
+
Read More
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Review: Slam Bolt Scrappers
Not since the Street Sharks chomped their way into our hearts in the mid-nineties has such a jawsome junction of ideas made its way onto our TV screens. On March 15th, Fire Hose Games released their flagship title, Slam Bolt …
+
Read More
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Review: Hard Corps: Uprising
As a kid, I would go over to a friend of mine’s house and play Contra: Hard Corps on his Sega Genesis. We’d rarely make it past the first level, but it was always a damn fun time. Now we’ve …
+
Read More
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Review: HOARD (PSP)
Dragons are cool. It is an unassailable fact of existence. Knowing this, Vancouver-based Big Sandwich Games could have easily phoned in any generic dragon game and hoped for a quick buck. Instead they gave us HOARD, an action arcade-strategy (“stratecade”) …
+
Read More
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Review: Aquattack!
Aquattack! is a grid-based match-three (or more) minis title with a fish shtick. Sound familiar? Luckily, this game is more playable than the illfated iFun4all bore-fest. There isn’t much to do here besides for matching multiple fish of the same …
+
Read More
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Review: The Undergarden
Eric got faeries, I got underwater gardening. Fair enough. Booting this one up you’re greeted by your happy little character floating around the hub area. Let’s call him a nymph. I enter the first level portal and get treated to …
+
Read More
Posted in - Reviews
Review- Paper Wars: Cannon Fodder
When a game is consistently referred to by its own developers as the “worst game ever,” it can be easy to approach it with lowered expectations. Right away, however, I was able to tell that Paper Wars was by and …
+
Read More
Posted in - Reviews
Review: You Don’t Know Jack
You Don’t Know Jack used to be my favorite trivia game back in the day. I can remember blowing half a summer back in high school playing through YDKJ: The Ride with a pal. When I heard that the PS3 …
+
Read More