Jan 28 2008
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WordJong is Scrabble with options. Players drill down through a stack of tiles by spelling words. New letters come…
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Jan 20 2008
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Pop-culture knowledge is like kung fu. It’s all well and good to have a brain full of useless trivia, but what good…
Jan 14 2008
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Game publisher Eidos seems determined to make games that recreate the pivotal gunfight from Michael Mann's Heat.…
Jan 7 2008
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It was easy to scoff at Wii Sports when it was the only game out there for Nintendo's new console. Turns out there…
Dec 31 2007
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Pain is a sandbox game in need of a pail and shovel. Rag-doll physics are the primary plaything in this…
Dec 31 2007
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Drake's Fortune: Uncharted is the poster child for the next-gen blockbuster. It combines proven game mechanics from…
Dec 24 2007
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Dec 10 2007
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It took five years and just as many offerings for Ratchet and Clank to nail their Empire Strikes Back moment. Not to…
Dec 3 2007
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The similarities between Link's Crossbow Training and the 8-bit classic Duck Hunt are hardly coincidental. The…
Nov 26 2007
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After half a dozen tours in the near-mythical battlefields of World War II, the Call Of Duty series sets its sights…
Nov 19 2007
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There are nearly as many flavors of the first-person shooter as there are Eskimo words for snow. Unreal Tournament…
Nov 12 2007
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So far, nobody basing a game on an animated show has managed to make the spin-off as anarchic and oddball-smart as…
Nov 5 2007
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It's hard to live up to controversy. Anybody who has rented Caligula or listened to "Cop Killer" knows that…
Nov 5 2007
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It's hard to live up to controversy. Anybody who has rented Caligula or listened to "Cop Killer" knows that…
Oct 29 2007
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For many, the difference between the Wii and one of those wood-paneled Pong machines from the '70s is negligible. To…
Oct 22 2007
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EveryDay Shooter is an indie love letter to the arcade-style shoot-'em-up. The tributes are all right out in the…
Oct 15 2007
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It isn't a stretch to suggest that Link's primary choice of transportation reveals much about the soul of each entry…
Oct 15 2007
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Andy Serkis' turn as Bohan, the disfigured villain of Heavenly Sword, is one of the best performances to grace video…
Oct 8 2007
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Quake 3 Arena raised eyebrows in 1999 when it ditched first-person story altogether in favor of multiplayer…
Oct 1 2007
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There's no background story to set up the perpetual conflict between Warhawk's futuristic Eucadian and Chernovan…