Phil Villarreal
‘Xenoblade Chronicles’ Game Review
Released nearly two years ago in Japan and last year in Europe, you’d expect Xenoblade Chronicles to look at least somewhat dated.
‘Kid Icarus: Uprising’ Game Review
Word has it that Nintendo only went with Kid Icarus: Uprising as the subtitle for its new Kid Icarus 3DS game only after ‘Wristbreaker,’ ‘Carpal Tunnel Provider’ and ‘What the Eff is Up With These Controls?’ options didn’t test well in focus groups.
‘MLB 12: The Show’ Game Review
Like a grizzled veteran who rocks a shelf full of MVP trophies and is unthreatened by any up-and-comers on the farm system, ‘MLB 12: The Show‘ no longer has the eye of the tiger. Instead, it just coasts, does the awesome things you expect it to do and calls it a day.
‘Street Fighter X Tekken’ Game Review
‘Street Fighter X Tekken’ reminds us of that bathtub scene in Billy Madison when Adam Sandler pits a bottle of shampoo and conditioner in a deathmatch. It’s nearly as ridiculous a proposition — and somehow just as fitting — to pit the two-dimensional, projectile-happy Street Fighters against the 3D shuffle-meisters from the world of Tekken.
‘Mass Effect 3′ Game Review
All those ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books you read as a child have prepared you for ‘Mass Effect 3.’
How to Clean a Baseball Cap — Last Man Standing
Last Man Standing are articles intended to help the average guy prepare for some of life’s oddest events. It’s just advice. It’s better than being clueless.
Unless you’re a multimillionaire suiting up for an American League Championship Series, it’s tough to pull off the Dustin Pedroia dirty-hat look. Sure, dude
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‘Journey’ Game Review for PlayStation 3
‘Journey’ is a downloadable game, so it doesn’t have a box or manual. But if it did, all it would say is “Don’t stop believin’.”
We Don’t Want to Wake Up from ‘Alan Wake’s American Nightmare’ [REVIEW]
The new trend is for game publishers with just-crazy-enough-to-work sequel ideas to release the games as bite-sized, stand-alone downloads that look and feel just like the disc-based games. That’s how ‘Red Dead Redemption’s’ straight-shooting cowboy John Marston ended up tangling with zombies in ‘Undead Nightmare’ and superhuman rail-surfer Cole Phelps of Infamous infamy ended up becoming a v
‘UFC Undisputed 3′ Wants To Fight For Your Love
When you’re pinned to the canvas with knuckles in your ribs, a knee in your kidney and hundreds of pounds of sweaty man-flesh urging you to tap out before you lose consciousness, it’s definitely time to re-evaluate what you’re doing.
Katy Perry To Have Virtual Sex With Millions Of People
Freshly back-on-the-market pop startlet Katy Perry is getting hot and heavy with ‘The Sims 3: Showtime,’ a new addition to the PC game that allows you to pursue your dreams of becoming a dancer, musician, magician and — maybe it’s just us, but we doubt it — Katy Perry’s virtual boy toy.
‘The Sims: Showtime — Katy Perry’
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‘Amy’ Is Awful Enough To Make You Hate Video Games and Life Itself [REVIEW]
We used to laugh at pundits like this who say video games are worthless trash — or worse, a tool of the devil meant to torment your soul. That is, until we played Amy, which proves those sentiments exactly right.
A vestige of the nearly extinct survival horror genre, the game is horrifying for all the wrong reasons. If y
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App Makes It Almost Too Easy To Crash Weddings
If ‘Wedding Crashers’ taught us one thing, it’s that weddings to which we aren’t invited are far superior to those which we’re required to attend. If it taught us anything else, it’s that crashing weddings is almost a full time job. It involves a ton of recon work.
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