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Full disclosure: I’m an unapologetic fan of Hideki Kamiya. Not only is the director responsible for seminal action titles such as Bayonetta, Viewtiful Joe, and Devil May Cry, but Kamiya-san is also uncharacteristically outspoken, sporadically ...

Robert’s take: Save for Bohemia Interactive’s fastidiously detailed Arma series, the contemporary first-person shooter largely shuns simulation. While popular franchises like Call of Duty and Battlefield provide painstakingly rendered weapons and drench their campaigns in ...

Beyond the persistence of cutthroat competition between two longtime footie rivals, Pro Evolution Soccer and FIFA, this week’s roster of new releases has a few other remarkable elements. While PlayStation 2 and Wii releases have ...

If the benchmark of artistic expression is the ability to evoke an inward examination, then Grand Theft Auto V is undoubtedly Rockstar Games’ magnum opus. While detractors and the ratings-ravenous media are bound to critique ...

Emulation is almost always a difficult task. When programmers attempt to deliver replications of cherished arcade games, expectations of pixel-perfect performance can add to the complication. Such was the case with the Neo Geo X. ...

Born amidst the era of the SEGA Genesis and Super Nintendo, SNK’s NeoGeo system seized the interest of two divergent groups. A coin-op model, the MVS (Multi Video System) proved to be a boon for ...

Beyond one of our hosts pushing Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F’s photo mode to its absolute limits, the crew offer impressions of Disney Infinity, LEGO Chima: Laval’s Journey, Pikmin 3, DuckTales Remastered, Dead or Alive ...

Those suffering from triskaidekaphobia will be happy to know that this Friday the Thirteenth isn’t poised to summon either Jason Voorhees or deluge of wretched titles. In fact, with titles such as Grand Theft Auto ...

What is the concept? Although Chaos Code is published by fighting-game gurus Arc System Works, players shouldn’t approach the game expecting the finesse of a game such as BlazBlue or Guilty Gear. Instead, the downloadable ...

There are some things you can always count on; Mario saving the Princess, EA Sports releasing a Madden NFL game every year, and that any successful fighting game will undergo a revision. Dead Or Alive ...