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One of the most prudent purchasing policies during the ‘90s and early 2000’s was to deliberate before purchasing a game based on an anime. In retrospect, the era was filled with lackluster licensed cash-ins, which ...

Synergy doesn’t always materialize when prodigious talent comes together. From Chickfoot’s underwhelming union of Sammy Haggar, Joe Satriani, with Red Hot Chili Pepper and Van Halen alumni to Ocean Twelve’s disastrous attempt to recreate the ...

Bridging the Japan-only PS Vita title Surge Concerto: Ciel nosurge and the three Ar tonelico titles stateside gamers did receive, Ar Nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star seems fated to tempt GUST’s fans. But for ...

With Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal and Puella Magi Madoka Magica commanding sizeable stateside audiences, a growing number of viewers are discovering the merits of the magic girl genre. But anime aficionados will quickly point ...

Taking well known children’s stories and corrupting them by adding mature or adult elements is nothing new to the world of gaming. This idea was most likely popularized by American McGee’s Alice though the original ...

Bungie design lead Jaime Griesemer once famously remarked that the secret to Halo’s success was rooted in its half-minute combat loop. At its foundation, each encounter flung players into a fastidiously crafted thirty-second fracas, where ...

From special editions for KickBeat and Shadowrun: Dragonfall to sequels in the Theatrhythm and Naruto Shippuden franchises, this week’s list of new releases is filled with familiar titles. Fortunately, a few new properties are emerging ...

This week, Eric joins the boys of Summer, Robert becomes one of Destiny’s Children, Jeremy lets loose with a pent-up pile of game impressions, and Sage transforms Transistor impressions into an onslaught of innuendo. Beyond ...

From Amazon’s $970 million buyout of Twitch, the monumental rise of Let’s Play videos, as well as YouTube’s push toward sixty frame-per-second output, it’s clear that the ability to acquire high-definition video is becoming an ...

One of the fundamental failings in contemporary gaming is a lack of adaptability with peripherals. Too often, devices are designed to work only with a specific brand of machine- resulting in living rooms and offices ...