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At first glance, a title like 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa appears to be an effortless way for Electronic Arts to pad their coffers. Released just seven months after FIFA Soccer 10 and into ...

This week’s releases present gamers with some ‘Stark’ choices. With Iron Man 2 being one of the few disk-based diversions, a majority of the other new games are either downloadable titles, or cartridges with a ...

Despite the evangelicalism of SeanNOLA and the enthusiasm of a million Japanese gamers, I’ve been consistently perplexed by the Monster Hunter series. Two fleeting forays on the PSP, revealed a stubborn indifference to players- as ...

TideGear offers a colloquy on Love and Infinite Space; whether he is discussing games or waxing philosophic is uncertain. Before things get too abstract, SeanNOLA and DesertEagle discuss the more corporal pleasures of Monster Hunter ...

Mirroring their Hollywood counterparts, game development studios rarely tamper with success. Sequels grudgingly offer a modicum of innovation, favoring the safe trajectories forged by a predecessor. Beyond a two player co-operative mode and online leaderboards, ...

SeanNOLA’s Take: When I was in sixth grade, I lived in a town in Alabama called Enterprise.  There was a kid in my school named Kareem who was twice my size, very athletic and a ...

This week TideGear and DesertEagle discuss Resonance of Fate battling, Pokémon grinding, and the usefulness of Patchwork Heroes suicide bombing, while SeanNOLA pulls a forgotten relic out of the PSP achieve. Our brief journey through ...

Few game characters exhibit a work ethic as fervent as Flo. The former stock-broker turned restaurant magnate has been serving a perpetual stream of obstinate customers over the last seven years in the ubiquitous Dinner ...

Whether players prefer kicking balls or butt, there’s a healthy selection of diversions waiting for gamers at retail outlets this week. Sports enthusiasts have a World Cup edition of FIFA and a re-invigoration of a ...

Plain Sight is a competitive multiplayer-only action platformer focusing on ninja-like reflexes and betting on one’s own skill. You take control of a sword-wielding ninja robot jumping around and between various gravitational objects in space. Your ...