One of the more revealing artistic barometers of our industry is the remake. In the past, offering a hurried port adorned with a bit of perfunctory content was the norm. However, contemporary gamers are seeing ...
Read More »New Releases for the Week of March 13, 2011
Whether players are protecting the U.S. from nuke-toting North Koreans, watching over Chibiterasu or just keeping on eye on the sideline, defense is an ever-present theme across this week’s new releases. Rumor has it that ...
Read More »Phantom Brave: The Hermuda Triangle Review
In the 1975 play Same Time, Next Year, George and Doris are two soul-crossed souls who schedule an annual, clandestine reunion despite being committed to other people. Ironically, the illicit couple share an emotional intricacy ...
Read More »Simply Radiant- Torchlight Review
Evidently, creating the ideal algorithm for a loot drop is as challenging as mapping the human genome. While selfless scientists have spend the last two decades unraveling the mystery of DNA, programmers have toiled for ...
Read More »Still Catching- Pokemon Black/White Review
Sean”White Version”NOLA: If I were to check our analytics, I would see that very few children are reading this right now. I would imagine, that on average, our readers are in their early thirties, about ...
Read More »Podcast 6-5: Going to Kill Your Richard
This week, the Tech-Gaming crew wraps their eager hands around 3DS units and offers impressions of Killzone 3, Paper Wars: Cannon Fodder, PixelJunk Shooter 2, Radiant Historia, Alien Breed as well as a number of ...
Read More »Ice, Fire & Desire- PixelJunk Shooter 2 Review
With a regular stream of platformers, racers, and first-person shooters, a majority of the industry’s output fits squarely within long-established genre conventions. Yet, players are also seeing an increase in the number of titles which ...
Read More »New Releases: Week of March 6, 2011
Confrontations abound in this week’s new releases. Whether players are battling vile Darkspawn, rival Pokémon trainers, or wicked curveballs, a wide variety of adversaries await players. Surprisingly, these showdowns aren’t limited to the current generation of ...
Read More »The Slime of Our Lives- Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation
There’s a running joke which states role-playing aficionados can be intimately familiar with the Dragon Quest series without having to play a single entry. From random ambushes by unseen monsters, amnesic protagonists, turn-based battles managed ...
Read More »Stand the Test of Time- Radiant Historia Review
As viewers of the Back to the Future film series will tell you, plotlines centering around time travel have about a one-third chance of being successful. Regretfully, interactive entertainment seems to have a similar track ...
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