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Championship Calibur

The soul still burns for a select few
Ten years ago, you couldn’t take a step through the electronics department without knocking over a stack of crappy fighting games.

By: MITCH KRPATA | August 19, 2008

Follow the leader

Geometry Wars 2 shoots and scores
What makes a man lust for the high score?

By: MITCH KRPATA | August 12, 2008

Fantastic voyage

A classic RPG gets made over
This is a nostalgia trip worth taking.

By: RYAN STEWART | August 04, 2008

Dream on

Aerosmith can’t make Guitar Hero sing again
It is somehow fitting that the Guitar Hero series should follow the trajectory of the countless rock bands who achieve too much success too soon.

By: MITCH KRPATA | July 28, 2008

Civil service

Sid Meier brings Revolution to the people
The upshot of all this building and scheming is that you can turn Paris into an Aztec city and settle Fyodor Dostoevsky in Tenochtitlan.

By: RYAN STEWART | July 21, 2008

Back to the future

A new generation of Space Invaders
Of all the things to love about games, the best is when one comes out of nowhere to knock you upside the head.

By: MITCH KRPATA | July 15, 2008

Tour bust

The wheels come off for Guitar Hero
It’s more pleasant than being eaten by a T. Rex.

By: MITCH KRPATA | July 08, 2008

War of words

The final Metal Gear Solid doesn’t go down quietly
“War has changed,” Solid Snake tells us, both at the beginning and at the end of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots . He would know.

By: MITCH KRPATA | July 01, 2008

Block party

Indiana Jones goes Lego
Somehow I missed out on the whole Lego video-game universe.

By: AARON SOLOMON | June 24, 2008

Blood sport

Ninja Gaiden II scores a flesh wound
To judge by the way they’re portrayed in video games, ninjas are suffering from an identity crisis.

By: MITCH KRPATA | June 17, 2008

Bourne to lose

Action, but no thrills, in this Conspiracy
The Bourne Conspiracy is a video game not directly based on the Bourne films starring Matt Damon — a fact its makers have taken great pains to obscure.

By: MITCH KRPATA | June 10, 2008

Inherit the wind

The Wii’s first original, downloadable content
One of the most exciting aspects of this console generation has been each platform’s approach to downloadable content.

By: MITCH KRPATA | June 03, 2008

Fitter, happier?

Nintendo offers its new workout plan
Nintendo’s newest runaway sensation is, of all things, an exercise game.

By: MADDY MYERS | May 27, 2008

Helter-skelter

The World Ends with a bang, not a whimper
New gameplay quirks erupt from The World Ends with You like popcorn from an industrial-strength popper.

By: MITCH KRPATA | May 19, 2008

Citizen Kane? Or ‘Citizen You’?

Grand Theft Auto IV puts the player behind the wheel
Anyone who wants to know what makes a video game a video game — what makes it different from movies, television, books — can find the answer in Grand Theft Auto IV .

By: MITCH KRPATA | May 15, 2008

Shell on wheels

The Nintendo Wii’s kart attack
Unless Nintendo is planning to drop a surprise Kid Icarus remake on us, Mario Kart Wii will be one of its last franchises to make the leap to the next generation.

By: MITCH KRPATA | May 07, 2008

Polar excess

The brutal but beautiful Ikaruga
Warning: if you’re the type to scream profanities and toss controllers when a game is too difficult, you’ll want to give Ikaruga a wide berth.

By: MITCH KRPATA | April 28, 2008

Sex, violence and video games

Reconciling the irreconcilable
Popular culture has always had a bogeyman. These days, it’s most often video games being accused of leading the nation’s youth astray.

By: MITCH KRPATA | April 23, 2008

Unkindest cuts

Ninja Gaiden suffers a lethal blow
Some advice for game developers: just because the Nintendo DS has a microphone does not mean you have to shoehorn the mic into every DS game.

By: RYAN STEWART | April 22, 2008

Zack attack

A stellar prequel to Final Fantasy VII
One of the enduring images from 1997’s Final Fantasy VII was a short cinema showing the rogue warrior Sephiroth disappearing into a wall of flame.

By: MITCH KRPATA | April 15, 2008

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