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‘WWE WrestleFest’ Mobile Game Review
Before that pushy World Wildlife Fund got all cranky and lawyered the WWF initials away from pro wrestling, we dug the quarter-chomping arcade game ‘WWF WrestleFest.’ If the ‘Street Fighter II’ cabinet was occupied, ‘WrestleFest’ was our go-to-game.
‘Midway Arcade’ Mobile Game Review
Imagine you could step into a time machine and revisit all your favorite moments. Pretty cool so far, right? Only this time machine doesn’t let you walk around and enjoy yourself — it keeps you locked inside the clunky device, forced to peek out through a muddy, distorted window. When you try to relive your glory days, you end up screwing them up and ruining all your memories.
Microsoft Wants to ‘Further Monetize’ You Like an Animal
Microsoft may not be content with selling us $200-plus consoles, $60 games, $50 controllers and $60-a-year Xbox Live subscriptions. Not to mention subjecting gamers to an endless parade of Xbox 360 ads onscreen. If some bragging from an employee’s online resume is to be believed, the company has got some plans to milk even more money out of gamers.
Hear That Sound? It Could Be the ‘Call of Duty’ Bubble Popping
Ever since ‘Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare‘ mortar-blasted its way onto shelves in 2007, the franchise has been the unchallenged top gun in the shooter wars.
‘Pizza vs. Skeletons’ Mobile Game Review
We’ve sweated out many a sleepless night wondering whatever we would do if skeletal armies assaulted us. The answer, it turns out, was always in our freezers. As ‘Pizza vs. Skeletons’ attests, pizzas are far more than the world’s perfect food. They’re also bouncing discs of undead destruction.
EA Does Trolls a Solid, Lets Them Play Their Own Games Again
In a bungled effort to keep its online play clean, videogame publishing giant Electronic Arts has wielded an iron fist when it came to dealing with trolls.
To Let ‘Sleeping Dogs’ Lie Would Be A True Crime
Fans of Activision’s ‘True Crime’ series have had to wait longer for satisfaction than Tim Tebow (because he’s a self-professed virgin and is saving himself for mar… aw, forget it). But now the series, which was shelved by its original publisher, is back under a different name, with new gaming Goliath Square Enix at its back.
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Nintendo Is Working On Super Mario 4
There’s this obscure character known as “Mario” who has starred in a few Japanese games. It’s not like nearly all of them have been international bestsellers or anything, nor that “Mario” has pretty much been the face of gaming for the past quarter century. The rights to this “Mario” guy are
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‘Star Wars: The Old Republic’ Players Receive Free Month
Last week, ‘Star Wars: The Old Republic’ developer BioWare revealed that it would be showering loyal players with a plethora of goodies, including a free month of play for its most dedicated devotees. The developer drew the line between the worthy Jedi masters and unworthy Padawan Learners at level 50. Anyone abo
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Warning: PlayStation Network Is Going Down Today
The PlayStation Network goes down more often than an Arizona State sorority girl, but sometimes — like today — it’s because Sony plans it that way. Starting at 9 a.m. EST this morning, Sony’s giving a break to the hamsters that keep the PlayStation 3 servers chugging along. After Sony patches up
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‘Star Wars’ For Kinect Game Review
We’re not sure whether the developers of ‘Kinect Star Wars’ actively hate George Lucas’s brainchild and sought to mock it mercilessly, or just don’t understand the appeal of lightsabers and Jedi knights and just threw something together in a crude attempt at sympathizing with the franchise’s fanatics. Whatever the case, ‘Kinect Star Wars’ is the most laughable addition to the family since the 1
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 Game Review
If you’re going to re-release what, at its core, is basically the same game every year and expect fans to keep forking over their $60 again and again, you’d better add something worthwhile.