When The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky landed on the PSP in North America, it was effectively a second chance at a first impression. After all, Nihon Falcom’s long-running RPG franchise lost a considerable amount of goodwill right…
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When Sean Ramjagsingh and his EA Sports NHL team sat out the next-gen rush last year, the assumption was that their Ignite-engine adaptation of the franchise was well underway, but needed another year in development before it had the polish…
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01 Aug 2014
A big reason why the rise of indie games has been so celebrated is because of how staunchly they tend to represent the hits of old types of gaming often dismissed by today’s larger publishers (many of which, it should…
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20 Jun 2014
Cultural significance. You don’t really associate those two words with much of anything we write about in gaming journalism. Even as mainstream as gaming has become, most of what we think of as major events in the gaming industry come…
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Last year, The Legend of Zelda franchise caretaker Eiji Aonuma, in the midst of an overwhelming sense at Nintendo that the Wii U needed a huge PR push, revealed that a new Zelda title was in the works. Although…
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Thanks to a little bit of ownership drama between Sega and Arc System Works, we haven’t seen the rather unique Guilty Gear franchise in a while. (That’s why we have BlazBlue, as series creator Daisuke Ishiwatari needed something to do…
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by Patrick Mifflin
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11 Jun 2014
For the second year in a row, Nintendo has bucked the traditional big auditorium presentation in favor of one of their now-steady Nintendo Direct addresses. Known for packing a lot of information into each one, however, there was a lot…
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11 Jun 2014
Sony headlined the Monday night festivities at E3 2014. After coming off of a PS4 launch that can only be referred to as historic, E3 gave us a glimpse of what Sony had in store for their next tricks. Were…
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Like many of you, we were paying close attention to the proceedings at the E3 press conferences, and certainly had a lot to take from each one. Here, we’ll be providing our responses to the Microsoft conference that kicked off…
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30 Dec 2013
I’ve maintained since about the time of E3 that 2013 would be the best year for games since the 1990s, even if you subtracted the two system launches last month from consideration, and it has not disappointed in the slightest….
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17 Dec 2013
Now that we are finally cooling down from the latest two system launches — hopefully the last two for several years — I figured it was time for a good debriefing. Let’s recap the (d)evolution of system launches over the years, and…
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The Panzer Dragoon franchise made something of an understated debut in the early days of the Sega Saturn, but was as groundbreaking a rail shooter as its counterpart at Nintendo that started it all, Starfox. Like Starfox, Panzer Dragoon‘s appearances…
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