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“Persona 4 Arena: Ultimax” Review

author image by Patrick Mifflin | PlayStation 3 Reviews Xbox 360 | 0 Comments | 13 Oct 2014

Out of all of the games and spinoffs that comprise the long-running Shin Megami Tensei franchise, none has been so singled out as a strong brand unto itself as has Persona 4. Although remakes of past titles have certainly not…

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“NHL 15” Legacy Review

author image by Patrick Mifflin | PlayStation 3 Reviews Xbox 360 | 0 Comments | 09 Oct 2014

EA Sports NHL is consistently a high point of the EA Sports lineup, and in EA’s annual catalogue as a whole. Every year, Sean Ramjagsingh and his team at EA Sports Canada do a great job of refining an already…

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“The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky” Review

author image by Patrick Mifflin | PC Reviews Steam | 0 Comments | 22 Sep 2014

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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“NHL 15” Next-Gen Review

author image by Patrick Mifflin | PlayStation 4 Reviews Xbox One | 0 Comments | 22 Sep 2014

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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“1001 Spikes” Review

author image by Patrick Mifflin | Nintendo 3DS Nintendo Wii U Platforms PlayStation 4 PlayStation Vita Reviews Steam Xbox One | 0 Comments | 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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FOR SALE: Capcom

author image by Patrick Mifflin | Articles Features Nintendo 3DS Nintendo DS Nintendo Wii Nintendo Wii U PlayStation 3 PlayStation 4 PlayStation Portable PlayStation Vita Xbox 360 Xbox One | 0 Comments | 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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E3 2014 Preview: “The Legend of Zelda”

author image by Patrick Mifflin | E3 2014 Nintendo Wii U Previews | 0 Comments | 12 Jun 2014

  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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E3 2014 Preview: “Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-“

author image by Patrick Mifflin | E3 2014 PlayStation 3 PlayStation 4 Previews | 0 Comments | 12 Jun 2014

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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E3 2014: Press Conference Analysis – Nintendo

author image by Patrick Mifflin | Articles Console E3 2014 Features Handheld Nintendo 3DS Nintendo Wii U Previews | 0 Comments | 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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E3 2014: Press Conference Analysis – Sony

author image by Patrick Mifflin | Articles E3 2014 Features PlayStation 3 PlayStation 4 PlayStation Vita Previews | 0 Comments | 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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E3 2014: Press Conference Analysis – Microsoft

author image by Patrick Mifflin | Articles E3 2014 Features Previews Xbox One | 0 Comments | 11 Jun 2014

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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Patrick’s Top 10 Games of 2013

author image by Patrick Mifflin | Best of 2013 Features Nintendo 3DS Nintendo Wii U PC PlayStation 3 PlayStation 4 PlayStation Vita Xbox 360 Xbox One | 0 Comments | 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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