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When I was growing up, the NeoGeo home console was a myth. Everyone had these wild stories about their cousin’s older brother’s rich friend who had a NeoGeo, but no one had actually seen one ...

Although the number of new releases pales in comparison to the pre-holiday deluge, January’s second week shows a few titles trickling onto retail shelves. Next week looks even more robust as Little Big Planet 2, ...

With dual screens to articulate the wealth of visual information and a stylus-based interface, the Nintendo DS is a ideal platform for the tower defense genre. Supplementing the cartridge-based entries such as Desktop Tower Defense ...

Despite the ability of modern consoles to create near-photorealistic settings, gamers are often left skulking the same recurring environments. From pushing toward mid-1940’s Berlin for the umpteenth instance to trudging through the dank caverns common ...

At last year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, one of Natsume’s representatives repeatedly indicated that Rune Factory 3: A Fantasy Harvest Moon was quite different from previous entries in the franchise. For even casual admirers of the ...

Four years after the release of the Wii, developers are still struggling to create functional control schemes. Instead of playing to the Wiimote’s strengths, instances of superfluous waggle or convoluted gestures are all too common. ...

As the industry shifts away from physical media, we are seeing an increasing amount of games which straddle the aesthetics of a full-priced retail release with the abridged play-time common for digital downloads. One notable ...

Over the last three decades, Namco has labored to keep Pac-Man relevant. From forsaking his labyrinthine confines for a puzzle solving quest in 1994’s Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures to restructuring memorable dot-munching mechanics into ...

At a price point once reserved for full-featured expansions, gamers have quickly acclimated to the fifteen dollar set of multiplayer maps. As Modern Warfare 2‘s Stimulus and Resurgence (and expectedly- Black Op‘s similarly priced) packs ...

One of the most crucial rudiments of any MMO is a generous and liberal reward system. With so many competitors in the free-to-play area, a successful games should offer simultaneous enticements to players, to keep ...