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In a franchise that has seen a lot of ups and downs, Super Double Dragon (also known as Return of Double Dragon) wasn’t the biggest hit when it released on the SNES in 1992. The side-scrolling genre had become saturated, and many gamers thought this entry didn’t innovate enough to warrant...

Castlevania. A name which evokes fond memories of feverish days and nights slaying errant vampires, gargoyles and all manner of ungodly creatures. If you’ve played any of the games in this series, you probably know what to expect – stellar platforming, exploration and combat. If you’ve played...

[attachment=17372:Super-Mario-Maker-Wii-U-Review.png] Everyone’s favorite plumber is back. And this time, you literally get to choose your own adventure. Unlike other games which have powerful, but incredibly complicated level editors, Super Mario Maker makes it easy for you to design a...

Batman is a complicated guy. Several times over Batman’s storied history, writers have talked about the emotional and psychological toll his actions have. Is Batman the cause of all of the problems that Gotham currently faces? Has he, as a shining symbol of justice, inadvertently caused the rise...

In The Witcher 3, enemies don’t explode into fairy dust and float harmlessly out of sight. Far from it. Heads roll, limbs are torn and innards are spilled. And yet, the game doesn’t revel in gore just for the sake of it. Each action, each death and each injury is backed by fantastic writing and...

Mortal Kombat X is a fantastic entry into a series that regained it’s footing with the last game. There’s a tremendously entertaining roster of characters, each with distinct fighting styles and fatalities. Even if you don’t head online, there’s plenty of content here to keep you entertained for...

Because for every sub-par, generic zombie game or movie, there is a Dying Light. Something that brings a fresh twist, a new take on the genre. Something which keeps what makes zombies fun intact, and adds variations and mechanics that make zombies fun again. What we have in Dying Light is a...

If you played Smash Bros. on the Wii U, your first thoughts after you look at this edition might be – “Well, this looks like a replica of the 3DS game.” After all, it has the exact same roster and the same plot. And then, once you start playing it, you’ll realize why the Wii U version is the...

Fans of modern RPG storytelling owe a debt of gratitude to Final Fantasy IV. FFI and FFIII had bare-bones stories—the player-characters didn’t even have names!—and while FFII’s story was a bit more elaborate (named Final Fantasy IV GBA Reviewcharacters fighting an ominous empire), it was still...

One of the most pleasant surprises of the end of the PS2’s life cycle were Atlus’s Persona 3 (2007) and Persona 4 (2008), both released in North America long after the next generation of consoles had come out. Battle in these RPGs is party-based combat in standard level-grinding dungeons, but...

Forty-five years ago tomorrow (as I write this), humans set foot on an extraplanetary body, the moon, for the first time. But today we’re here to talk about a more critical (if vaguer) anniversary: it’s been a little over one year since both Bioshock Infinite (March 2013) and The Last of Us...

What’s great about New ‘n’ Tasty: Is that it thoroughly embraces the weirdness of the original. You play as Abe, an alien on a strange planet who is out to free his Mudokon brethren from the evil factory where they’ve all been forced to work. Abe isn’t a superpowered alien, either. He’s just an...

For a game that is riddled with plot holes and missteps, Murdered is a surprisingly engaging experience that keeps you hooked until you reach the eerie climax. On the surface, it has all the problems that would normally cause you to disregard a game altogether within the first hour – lackluster...

In Metal Gear Solid V, you can sky-kidnap sheep with army balloons

While Borderlands 2 stretches the Vita to the absolute edges of its capabilities, the cracks only show in a few places during the game. Largely, this port of Gearbox’s great game remains enjoyable and has most of the charm of the original. The Vita version has a few DLCs and some bonus content...