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Phantasy Star fans have weathered a tumultuous relationship with their RPG franchise of choice over the past 22 years.  From the heartbreak of Phantasy Star III to the triumph of Phantasy Star Online, the series ...

Converting popular console titles onto a portable format can be a tricky proposition. Developers are often forced to craft a simplified control scheme to accommodate a handheld’s restricted input system. Additionally, limited amounts of memory ...

Congratulations to Cleaner7 for solving last week’s puzzle, and without further ado, here’s our post-Halloween head-scratcher. Make sure to grab a handful of Smarties before calculating. Take the number of platforms the original Rayman: Raving ...

While the great majority of gamers groove along with the Rock Band and Guitar Hero franchises, at my house, karaoke is king. I’ve tried to introduce the family to plastic guitars and drum kits, but ...

As the resident RPG reviewer for the site, I get the opportunity to play every turn-based adventure that gets sent our way. While I approach almost every title with eager anticipation, sporadically those expectations can ...

As both a warm-up and a clever way to disguise load-times, NBA Live 10 allowed players to practice their jump shots and layups before a competition began. The mini-game was a competent, yet unremarkable diversion- ...

I like a good, cooperative third-person action RPG.  It’s a fairly narrow and specific genre, but in the last two generations of electronic entertainment, they have become a staple of my gaming diet.  When I ...

DesertEagle’s Take: There was a period in gaming when titles were measured by the number of simultaneous moving sprites, instead of polygonal complexity. Diversions such as Gunstar Heroes, Bangai-O, and Dynamite Headdy captivated players with ...

I was recently extolling the virtues of the Japanese role-playing games to an acquaintance who appreciated more action-oriented diversions. He explained that while he had neither issues with androgynous characters design nor a derivative plotline, ...

DesertEagle’s Take: While I’ve never hurled a controller at the wall in a moment of unadulterated gaming frustration, I’ve still broken a fair share of input devices. Typically, this has been the result of an ...