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From Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2‘s duplication of The Rock‘s shower room shootout to Shank‘s homage to Desperado‘s south-of-the-border bloodshed, games intermittently draw inspiration from the cinema. With throngs of lunging hoplites and Phalanx ...

By offering fifty flawlessly emulated titles, Atari Greatest Hits Volume 1, was a worthy purchase for retro connoisseurs. My main admonishment for the anthology was a reaction to marketing- although Atari’s entire collection of 2600 ...

Typically, most interactive diversions are conceived with lofty expectations- critical acclaim, commercial success, even Game of the Year honors. That’s not the case with Paper Wars: Cannon Fodder, a title jestingly called “a disaster” and ...

Despite having three JRPG franchises published in the west, Nagano-based developer Gust occasionally gets overlooked. Yet this Wednesday, when the Reyvateils return for their third series outing in Ar tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel, ...

One of the more revealing artistic barometers of our industry is the remake. In the past, offering a hurried port adorned with a bit of perfunctory content was the norm. However, contemporary gamers are seeing ...

Whether players are protecting the U.S. from nuke-toting North Koreans, watching over Chibiterasu or just keeping on eye on the sideline, defense is an ever-present theme across this week’s new releases. Rumor has it that ...

In the 1975 play Same Time, Next Year, George and Doris are two soul-crossed souls who schedule an annual, clandestine reunion despite being committed to other people. Ironically, the illicit couple share an emotional intricacy ...

Evidently, creating the ideal algorithm for a loot drop is as challenging as mapping the human genome. While selfless scientists have spend the last two decades unraveling the mystery of DNA, programmers have toiled for ...

Sean”White Version”NOLA: If I were to check our analytics, I would see that very few children are reading this right now. I would imagine, that on average, our readers are in their early thirties, about ...

This week, the Tech-Gaming crew wraps their eager hands around 3DS units and offers impressions of Killzone 3, Paper Wars: Cannon Fodder, PixelJunk Shooter 2, Radiant Historia, Alien Breed as well as a number of ...