Category: Previews
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Hands-On Preview: Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (Sony PSP)
Alexander Lucard has had a copy of the North American version of the Ogre Tactics remake for a few weeks now. How is it comparing to the original?
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Hand’s On Preview: Prinny 2: Dawn of Operation Panties, Dood! (Sony PSP)
Back in 2009, when Nippon Ichi released Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?, we were all skeptical. After all, Nippon Ichi made strategic and/or tactical RPGs, not platformers. Rhapsody, La Pucelle, Disgaea, Phantom Brave, Makai Kingdom – those games had about as much to do with platformers as Pole Position. However skeptics and naysayers…
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Preview: Killzone 3 Multiplayer Beta
As my Youtube viewers could tell you, I have been out of the multiplayer shooter game for over six years. I was at one point a massive PC FPS freak. I started with Doom and played all the way up through Unreal Tournament 2004 (eleven years of solid frag hunting) before I finally started to…
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Preview: Lionheart: King’s Crusade
Lionheart: King’s Crusade is a new RTS from Paradox Interactive due out on October 8th. Cory Laflin has his hands on a beta build and lets us know if it’s worth purchasing.
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Hands-On Preview: Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts 2011
Activision’s newest game will have its own gun controller, and hunting action like never seen before. Chris Bowen went to New York City to preview it, and tells us what he thinks.
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Hand’s On Preview: Z.H.P.: Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman (Sony PSP)
A game that doesn’t end when the hero is defeated by the bad guy? What madness is this? Alex Lucard gives a sneak peek into Nippon Ichi’s latest offering.
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Demo Impressions: NHL ’11
Chris Bowen, our resident hockey expert, has had some time to play around with the NHL ’11 demo in anticipation of the Sept. 7th release. What did he think of it?
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Hands-On Preview: Two Worlds II
The first Chris and I heard of Two Worlds 2 was back in May, where we got to see an early build of nail’d and the PSP version of TNA Impact, where Aubrey Norris of Southpeak talked enthusiastically about it and extolled its improvement from the original. At our most recent meetup with Southpeak, we…
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Hands-On Preview: nail’d
Back in May, Aileen wrote a preview on a very early build of nail’d which was being touted as a very fast, arcade-y racing game that took all pretences to realism and threw them into the wastebin. It was intended at the time as being the antidote for more realistic games like Gran Turismo and…
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Preview: Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland (PS3)
Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland is the latest (and 18th) game in the Atelier/Mana Khemia. You may not realize the series is that extensive as North America has only received seven games in the series so far: Atelier Iris 1-3, Atelier Annie, and Mana Khemia 1 and 2. As you can see from our…
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E3 2010 First Impressions: Splatterhouse (Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony PS3)
I’ve been a big fan of the Splatterhouse series for several years. The first game was one of the very few reasons I was ever interested in owning a TurboGrafx-16, and it was a fun and horrific game in a sea of otherwise generic crap. The second game, while it was in many respects a…
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E3 2010 First Impressions: Vanquish (Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony PS3)
One of the games I was most heavily anticipating seeing at E3 was the game we’re looking at in this preview, Vanquish. Developed by Platinum Games, the folks behind this year’s exceptional Bayonetta, Vanquish looked to be a Japanese take on the “space marine commits mass genocide against evil alien races/foreign countries” concept, and while…
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E3 2010 First Impressions: Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage (Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony PS3)
For anyone who isn’t as old as I am, Fist of the North Star probably doesn’t have much meaning, but back in the early nineties, a virtually unknown anime film of the same title found its way into retail stores and rental shops, where it was quietly ignored by anyone who wasn’t a fan of…
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Interview With Sanuk Games About Hysteria Project (Sony PS3/PSP)
Hysteria Project is an interesting mix of survival-horror and Full Motion Video, a video game format whose heyday was with games like Night Trap, Dracula Unleashed, Dragon’s Lair and Mad Dog McCree. It came out in April of 2009 for the IPhone and now Sanuk games has brought it to the PSP Minis collection. Being…
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Demo Impressions: Rooms: The Main Building (Nintendo Wii)
What was the worst gift you ever got for your birthday? Mine was a box of cat poop (true story), though even that was probably not as bad as the gift received by the main character of Rooms: The Main Building. Imagine a jigsaw puzzle that transports you to another world where the only means…
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Preview: 2K Marin & Digital Extremes on BioShock 2
Fresh off finishing work on the much-anticipated BioShock 2, the teams at 2K Marin and Digital Extremes have surfaced from the depths of Rapture for a quick breath of air. Thankfully, during this time, Jordan Thomas, Zak McClendon and Hoagy De La Plante from 2K Marin and Mat Tremblay and Jesse Attard of Digital Extremes…
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Preview: Trauma Team (Nintendo Wii)
Trauma Team is a departure from the previous Trauma Center series, with less of a focus on performing operations and an introduction of five new specialties. Recently I was given the opportunity to watch a demonstration of the forensics part of the game. Thus far, it looks to be a treat for those who like…
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Lunar: Silver Star Harmony – Hand’s On Preview (Sony PSP)
On Thursday, January 14th, XSEED released a playable demo of Lunar: Silver Star Harmony onto the PSP. Now I’m a big fan of the original Lunar: The Silver Star and I still own it for the Sega CD, Sega Saturn, Sony PSX and the Lunar Legend remake on the GBA. To say Lunar is one…
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Hand’s On Preview – Calling (Nintendo Wii)
Calling is the upcoming survival horror game from Hudson with a tentative release date of March, 2010. Recently Hudson sent me a demo of the game to try out. Always a fan of survival horror that is more terror than gore, I was pretty excited to give this a chance especially as the crown jewel…
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Demo Impressions: Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! 2 (Sony PSP)
Holy Invasion Of Privacy, Badman! 2: Time to Tighten Up Security! Developer: SCEI/Acquire Publisher: NIS America, Inc. Genre: Strategy Release Date: March 2010 This past July, NIS released Holy Invasion Of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do To Deserve This?, which charged you with raising an army of monsters to squash any heroes who tried…