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There’s a running joke which states role-playing aficionados can be intimately familiar with the Dragon Quest series without having to play a single entry. From random ambushes by unseen monsters, amnesic protagonists, turn-based battles managed ...

As viewers of the Back to the Future film series will tell you, plotlines centering around time travel have about a one-third chance of being successful. Regretfully, interactive entertainment seems to have a similar track ...

SeanNOLA: I get email all the time, saying “Sean, I bought Ys: The Oath in Fhelghana and Ys Seven based on your glowing and expertly-penned recommendations, but now I want to play some older Ys ...

Don’t be surprised to see some familiar faces in this week’s new releases. From Fight Night Champion‘s Ali, Frazier, and Tyson, survivalist Bear Gryll,  to a certain pizza-pushing rodent mascot, a precious amount of polygons ...

Faithful readers might recall my praise for 2008’s de Blob; a shining gem in the Wii’s otherwise prosaic,  third-party library. Challenging players to revitalize dreary, monochromic backdrops into vibrant cities, the title evoked the blissful, ...

Set during the Third Crusade and the Italian Renaissance, the Assassin’s Creed series has demonstrated the power of a historical backdrop, generating intrigue from the merging of the actual with the artificial. By having diabolical ...

Anyone who has ever played Prey, Too Human, or Alpha Protocol can confirm the effects of a sustained stint in development purgatory. Typically, titles with a protracted production cycle divulge their plight with a few ...

According to the ESRB, about six percent of games are given the M for Mature rating each year. Yet, between the release of Bulletstorm, Killzone 3, and Knights Contract, this week’s percentage is closer to ...

This week the Tech-Gaming crew blisters fingers with Hard Corp: Uprising, annihilates undead ninjas in Zombie Panic in Wonderland, hits the Ibizan streets in Test Drive Unlimited 2 and ‘sneaks behind to get inside’ Stacking. ...

Despite forgoing the familiar Contra moniker and the absence of memorable series meatheads Bill and Lance, recent release Hard Corps: Uprising is an irrefutable offspring of Konami’s run-and-gun classic. While the transfer of development duties ...