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Motorstorm: Arctic Edge
“When you look at the name Motorstorm: Arctic Edge, it’s easy to expect the tried and tested Motorstorm template but on snowy mountains. These assumptions are all well and good, but let it be said that Motorstorm: Arctic Edge has variety and character - a winning combination. Evolution Studios have…” Read more »
Tiger Woods PGA Tour ‘10
“It’s been several years now since EA revolutionised golfing videogames by introducing the analogue control method, driving yet another universal sport into the virtual market as a serious contender for the most essential sports game of the year. Since this however, Tiger’s most profitable endorsement has developed and matured, but…” Read more »
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
“While Grand Theft Auto has been making waves with its recent more serious approach to storytelling, a few frumpy fans have been pining for the old days. In the old days, Grand Theft Auto was all about spectacle. Planes and chainsaws! Miniguns and tanks! Back when cameras were locked high…” Read more »
Dissidia: Final Fantasy
“Final Fantasy: anyone who’s ever pressed an X button is familiar with Square’s behemoth that is the Final Fantasy series of turn-based RPGs. They’re a collection of epic tales matched only by their fiercely memorable cast – good luck bumping into a gamer who has never heard the name Sephiroth…” Read more »
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona
“Translating games has always been a wobbly area of the industry. Ever since Cats first declared “All your base are belong to us!” and Kefka let loose the vitriolic insult “Spoony Bard”, the localization - or as some see it, bastardization - of various Japanese games has been a hot…” Read more »
Interview: Persona Localization Team
“Bart Robson: The original PlayStation port of Persona featured some wild deviations from the Japanese original. How faithful is this new translation? Aram Jabbari: We can’t speak for the previous localization, but we are very confident that the script in SMT: Persona for PSP is as accurate and faithful to…” Read more »
Steambot Chronicles: Battle Tournament
“Steambot Chronicles is something of an antithesis to the standard open-world style of gameplay. Instead of over-the-top violence or hard-edged criminals taking center stage, the game was populated with cheerful, airy characters, coffee shops, Victorian architecture, and a relaxed, carefree attitude to completing missions. Of course, it wasn’t totally passive:…” Read more »
Crimson Gem Saga
“A note to anyone involved in making a sequel to anything, ever: titles are important. While it would be nice and organized if everyone just slapped a “2″ on successive titles, that hardly breeds confidence in the care taken in the rest of the game. If all they could come…” Read more »
Hammerin’ Hero
“Thanks to its relative power, the PSP has been a breeding ground for quite a few ambitious portable titles - Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories pushed open-world gameplay into a tiny package, SOCOM and other games like Syphon Filter featured robust online multiplayer, and God Of War: Chains of…” Read more »
Star Ocean: Second Evolution
“The RPG genre has come under a fair bit of scrutiny this past year, with most of them simply failing to excite. Whether it be a lack of ideas, a bland storyline or cumbersome combat, this recent slew of mediocre titles has not given gamers much confidence in the genre….” Read more »
Class of Heroes
“What did you major in when you graduated? Political Science? Law? Liberal Arts? Forget all that; when I grow up, I want to major in dungeon crawling. Class of Heroes is an upcoming RPG from Atlus that promises to teach students the proper way to adventure. With a robust character…” Read more »
Hammerin’ Hero
“ When we were kids, we were all subjected to movies about feisty young go-getters fending off some kind of giant evil corporation with their street smarts. Of course, no one ever got hurt, and the corporation’s claim to evil fame was along the lines of, “gee, the CEO is…” Read more »
Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam VS Gundam
“Straight from the arcade and onto your PSP, Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam VS Gundam is a port of a very popular Japanese arcade game using one of the country’s most-beloved franchises. The original features the Gundam franchise’s most popular mobile suits and pilots duking it out in a fast-paced 3rd…” Read more »
SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1
“Ah, nostalgia – it can blind even the most critical of gamers. It raises smiles and brings on the kinds of memories that linger in the mind for years and years. It is why we value retro games so highly, and tend to forgive their recurrent and obvious flaws. It…” Read more »
Buzz! Brain Bender
“Imagine this. Bandera, Texas, it’s 1880, the sun is blazing fervently, soon to fall behind the dusty horizon. ‘The Old Brain Saloon’ stands prominently amongst an otherwise generic cowboy town, tumbleweeds and everything. A shadowed figure sits by the corner of the bar, sipping on a light beer and irritating…” Read more »
LocoRoco 2
“LocoRoco 2 is insanely cute. There, it had to be said. Imagine a list of the cutest games to ever grace our beloved culture and right there at the top would be LocoRoco 2 - yes, even above its forebear. If there was a cuteness competition between videogame characters, then…” Read more »
R-Type Tactics
“As gamers, we tend to create our own innate rules when it comes to certain genres. Any game that carries a license should be approached with caution, no matter how fun it looks. Puzzle games will never be as good as Tetris and any spin off game that carries the…” Read more »