“Zenith” Review
by Filippo DinolfoFolks, we’ve got to face the facts. As we get older, we get progressively crankier. Things that used to bring us joy now grate on our nerves. We wonder about the ‘the kids these days’ and lament about how things…
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“The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II” Review
by Danreb VictorioFinding out how a story continues after a cliffhanger is often after going through an agonizing wait, and in the gaming industry, that wait tends to be longer than most other forms of entertainment media. So you can bet we were…
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“Madden NFL 17” Review
With just over a week to go until the beginning of the NFL regular season, it is indeed Madden season, and this year’s iteration of the long-running football sim is definitely the best version in over a decade.
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“The King of Fighters XIV” Review
I have to admit that when I first saw the teaser trailer for The King of Fighters XIV (KOFXIV), I was highly skeptical. It gave a brief glimpse of a now fully 3D-modeled game, but promised traditional 2D gameplay. These…
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“Brut@l” Review
I can still remember it like it was yesterday. There I was, running away from some pretty nasty ogres. My HP was really low and I was all out of healing items. I make a last stand in a room…
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“I Am Setsuna” Review
by Patrick MifflinE3 2015, to Square Enix, will undoubtedly go down as the show where the real Final Fantasy XV stood up, and the company’s decade-long AAA investment finally entered the home stretch. It will go down as the show that saw…
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“Street Fighter V” Review
2008’s Street Fighter IV was less a new fighting game than it was a transformative event for the genre’s entire landscape. Seemingly overnight, the fighting game community exploded to near early 90s proportions, and the game itself heralded in a…
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“Batman: The Telltale Series, Episode 1 – Realm of Shadows” Review
by Alex QuevedoOver the last several years, the gaming community has been graced with a string of quality Batman games. Whether you were actually a Batman fan or not didn’t matter. There was no denying that the Batman Arkham series was chock…
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[SDCC 2016] A Look at San Diego’s Sonic 25th Anniversary Party
Sega celebrated Sonic the Hedgehog‘s 25th anniversary on Friday night with a paid party at the House of Blues in San Diego amidst all the Comic-Con craziness, so we decided to celebrate with them.
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“Lumo” Review
If you’re a gamer of the 80’s, chances are you remember playing an isometric puzzle platformer. For me, it was Knight Lore, a game that perplexed me, but also rewarded my patience. Making my way through the numerous rooms of…
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“Pokémon GO” Review
I don’t know how useful this review will be, as I’m pretty sure anybody who was between the ages of seven and 30 during the Pokémon craze of the late 90’s downloaded this app. Yet here we are.
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“Ghostbusters (2016)” Review
Hot on the heels of the highly contested Ghostbusters reboot from Paul Feig comes Activision’s latest arcade style offering to expand what is becoming an entire Ghostbusters universe. While I’d love to get into various reasons why the movie is…
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