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In the darkened recesses of this week’s new releases, it appears that consummate hero Sam Fisher has eliminated most of his competition, sparing only a handful of PC titles and revisiting IP’s. Fortunately, the former ...

PSP owners nostalgic for a classic role-plating experience have a bevy of competent options. From remakes of beloved tiles in the Star Ocean and Shin Megami Tensei: Persona franchise, to original entries which skillfully capture ...

Last year, I had the pleasure of taking a trip to New Jersey to meet my girlfriend’s extended family.  Now, as many of you may have already insinuated from my cavalier use of the words ...

Recently, a number of titles previously deemed too eccentric for American tastes have been migrating out of the Land of the Rising Sun. This past month alone, gamers have been presented with Yakuza 3, Cho ...

This week DesertEagle and SeanNOLA discuss the quality of barbecue, beer and beast hunting at Capcom’s Monster Hunter Tri event, while TideGear’s exonerates gaming’s most criticized piece of hardware. We also deliberate over the merits ...

For years, outlets such as EGM and Edge have tantalized players with screenshots from the Cho Aniki (Japanese for “Super Big Brother”) series of games. Deemed too bizarre for American audiences, I became intrigued by ...

Over the last two console generations, I’ve developed a slavish devotion to the games inspired by Tom Clancy’s prose. From my initial tango-clearing missions with Domingo ‘Ding’ Chavez, liberating North Koreans under Scott Mitchell’s watch ...

Sadly, all those hours you’ve slavishly devoted to learned the intricacies of complex PC and console game will not reduce Spectral Force Genesis’ lofty learning curve. Despite my fluency with several other Idea Factory developed ...

Most games have at least one notable aspect of risk versus reward. Action games often tie that directly to the player’s ability to quickly strategize and react. The yearning that humans feel to test limits ...

Players confused by Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love’s unlikely amalgamation of fighting robots and dating simulation might be utterly baffled by Dead or Alive: Paradise, which presents an even stranger gaming dichotomy. The two ...