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Although adaptations like Assassin’s Creed II: Discovery and Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines have tried to translate the allure of Ubisoft’s flagship franchise onto portable screens, the DS and PSP hardware weren’t quite able to capture the ...

With anticipated titles such as Bravely Default, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition and Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII still several weeks away, players remain in the midst of a post-holiday shortage of new games. One company ...

Undoubtedly, The Banner Saga’s prologue is a harbinger of the challenges which await. Following a succinct voiceover which establishes a bleak backdrop of deceased gods, a stationary sun, and a landscape engulfed in a perpetual ...

This week’s roster of new releases offers a few familiar faces. From the return of Aveline de Grandpré for the high-definition, console-based reworking of Assassin’s Creed Liberation to an appearance by the perpetually assistive Chibi ...

This week the crew discusses next-generation user interfaces, Knack, Ryse, Killzone: Shadow Fall, Battlefield 4, Madden 25, and The Cat Lady. We also have an extended edition of Indie Outlook to pique your interest and ...

Last week’s post-holiday eShop rush was unexpectedly intense, besieging Nintendo’s servers and taking the digital service offline for several days. As such, the company’s selection of weekly releases might look familiar- many of the games ...

Although the PlayStation 4’s software library is still in an embryonic stage, Sony’s new system already has two pinball titles in its lineup. Remarkably, the two games take radically different approaches to the beloved pastime. ...

Looking back over the past year, the crew laments the loss of developers, publishers, and artists as well as examines the titles which defined 2013. Unsurprisingly, a discussion of our favorite games of the year ...

Undeniably, digital downloads have a number of advantages. When purchasing a title electrically, gamers don’t have to abandon the comfort of their homes, or even deal with the pressure of clerks pushing preorders. For those ...

One of 2010’s more triumphant puzzlers was Max & The Magic Marker, a title which seamlessly merged traditional platforming with Crayon Physics’ drawing mechanics. As developer Press Play’s inaugural title, it was a prodigious debut- ...