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Not long after its inception, the sports videogame splintered into two subdivisions. Electronic Arts’ popular Madden, NHL, and NBA Live franchises used the modest power of 16-bit hardware in an effort to recreate each athletic ...

Throughout gaming history, there have been a plethora of games that those who cherish the title of “gamer” cling onto with great fervor, despite a handful of flaws that make gameplay inaccessible to vast majority ...

What’salmost worse than a bad game? Answer: a game with great potential onlypartially realized. You can easily ignore a bad game altogether, butthe better a game’s concept, the more painful it is to accept itsfaults. ...

Last week, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2‘s relentless bosses left our fingers blistered and our nerves frazzled. This week, two additional games will test the limits of the human condition. Demon’s Souls first level is so ...

Few of our eight-bit era heroes have aged as remarkably well as Ryu Hayabusa. Sure, Mario is alive and still kicking Koopa shell, his contemporary adventures still evoking the vigor of his renowned NES exploits. ...

Console flight simulations typically come in two distinct types. The first, as exemplified by H.A.W.X. and the Ace Combat franchise, feature contemporary fighter planes armed with an ample supply of missiles. Bleeding-edge weapon systems allow ...

Great games often create mesmerizing micro-worlds that beg for exploration. As the Super Mario Bros. franchise has so wonderfully exemplified, the perpetual motion of a turtle shell rebounding between two blocks can become a source ...

Before 2004’s X-Men Legends, the presentation of superhero teamwork was often presented in restrictive side-scrolling brawlers. By using a template more common to action role playing-games, Raven Software was able to elevate Legends beyond the ...

In my youth, three Genesis games received a disproportionate amount of play time- Sonic the Hedgehog, Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf, and NHL ’94. While the first two titles were typically solitary diversions, Electronic ...

With savage snow flurries spotted in Motorstorm Arctic Edge, and violent rotating twisters in both Tornado Outbreak and The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road, this week’s weather forecast looks exceptionally bleak. Even ...