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$20 Game of the Week: Grand Theft Auto IV (PC, Xbox 360, PS3)

With the release of Grand Theft Auto 3, the GTA series went from a cult hit to a pop culture icon almost overnight. However, as titles such as Vice City Stories painfully illustrated, the series was beginning to run its course. Though it was far from mediocrity, it was becoming obvious that the [...]

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Maximum Letdown: Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu (NES)

A word to the wise: just because something comes from the Far East, makes no sense, and flops commercially, does not make it a cult classic, a good game, or even an above average game for that matter. (Oh, and before you hit us up with any hate mail, I should let [...]

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$20 Game of the Week: Beat Hazard (PC, Xbox Live Arcade)

Like Audiosurf, Beat Hazard’s gameplay is driven by music. You can load a song, or go through a whole album in survival mode, and the gameplay syncs up to your music. You can use any MP3 in your sound collection, but PC gamers have to download an $1 update that allows them to [...]

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Lost Classics: Secret of Mana (SNES)

Square’s Secret of Mana (or Seiken Densetsu 2 as it’s called in Japan) is an action RPG similar to Gauntlet. In fact, it could have almost been considered an early dungeon crawler even before Diablo (of course while Diablo focused on level grinding, SOM focused on story and exploration). Despite its simplicity, [...]

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Sims 3 Late Night Announced

Now I know we got some Poweteers who are Simmers too. We’re not even two months removed from the release of Sims 3 Ambitions, and now EA has just announced the latest addition to the latest addition of it’s franchise.

Details and more after the jump.

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$20 Game of the Week: Fight Night Round 4 (Xbox 360, PS3)

Last console generation, Fight Night and its sequel set new standards for Boxing video games. When the series debuted on Xbox 360 back in 2006 (and on PS3 later that year), the bar was set even further. However, the series was in jeopardy after series creator Kudo Tsunoda was booted from EA after [...]

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Maximum Letdown: Space Trader – Merchant Marine (PC, Mac OSx, IphoneOS, Linux)

Even though it’s a bit immoral, I just love the drug dealing mechanic in GTA Chinatown Wars. It’s quite satisfying trying to make a dollar out of 15 cent by slanging dope. Now what if someone were to take that mechanic, make an entire game based around it, set it in space, make [...]

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$20 Game of the Week: Metal Gear Solid 4 (PS3)

Hideo Kojima’s masterpiece is most likely the reason you bought a PS3, and for good reason. Like its predecessors, Metal Gear Solid 4 bends the rules of video game convention to become a landmark for its generation of gaming, and like its predecessors, it deserves a space on your shelf.

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