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  • Review: Arkanoid Live! 360 Arcade

    Arkanoid Live! Genre: Puzzle Developer: Taito Corporation Publisher: Microsoft Release Date: 05/06/2009 Years ago, man would thrust tiny metal symbols into brightly-lit, uncaring machines for his gaming joy. Designed to separate quarters from humans as fast as possible, arcades of that era were home to simplistic graphics, rapid gameplay, and unforgiving difficulty. Into that grinder,…

  • Review: Droplitz (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Droplitz Developer: Blitz Games Publisher: Atlus Genre: Puzzle Release Date: 06/24/09 Atlus USA, mostly known for its amazing knack of hand picking quality Japanese titles out for U.S. gamers, is looking to make a splash on the casual downloadable title scene with the Blitz-developed liquid puzzler Droplitz. While on the surface, the game may look…

  • Review: Droplitz (iPhone)

    Droplitz Developer: Blitz Arcade Publisher: Atlus USA Genre: Puzzle Release Date: 6/24/2009 I’m two for two so far in iPhone game reviews; Knights Onrush was a good game and it looks like – so far – that the issues I had with it have been patched around. Toki Tori is actually one of my contenders…

  • Review: Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires (Sony PS3)

    Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires Developer: Omega Force Publisher: Koei Genre: Strategy/Hack and Slash Release Date: 06/23/2009

  • Review: Naruto Shippuden: Ninja Council 4 (Nintendo DS)

    Naruto Shippuden: Ninja Council 4 Developer: Aspect Digital Publisher: Tomy Genre: Platformer/Action Release Date: 06/02/2009

  • Review: DinerTown Detective Agency (PC)

    DinerTown Detective Agency Developer: Absolutist Publisher: Playfirst Genre: Puzzle Release Date: 06/25/09 The Diner Dash series has spawned many a spin-off, such as the Wedding Dash series, Cooking Dash, Fitness Dash, and Dinertown Tycoon, just to name a few. Those games involve some frenzied clicking and the need to keep track of many things at…

  • Review: Still Life 2 (PC)

    Still Life 2 Publisher: Encore (Microids in Europe) Developer: GameCo Genre: Adventure Release Date: 08/11/2009 Ah Still Life. Such a complicated history. The original Still Life was the second game in the Post-Mortem series by a French/Canadian (as opposed to French-Canadian) development studio called Microids. The first Still Life game was met with rave reviews…

  • Review: The Conduit (Nintendo Wii)

    The Conduit Genre: First Person Shooter Developer: High Voltage Studios Publisher: SEGA Release Date: 06/30/09 Ever since The Conduit was announced, there has been a nearly absurd amount of hype about the game. Compared to the other recently released games for the Wii, The Conduit sticks out like Michael Jackson at a preschool graduation. There…

  • Review: Guitar Hero: Smash Hits (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Guitar Hero: Smash Hits Developer: Beenox Publisher: Activision Genre: Rhythm Release Date: 06/16/09 While Dictionary.com explains the verb “milking” in a variety of ways such as “to extract; draw out,” oddly enough, I didn’t see Guitar Hero mentioned anywhere on the page. However, if gamers receive more entries such as Guitar Hero: Smash Hits, the…

  • Review: Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood Developer: Techland Publisher: Ubisoft Genre: First Person Shooter Released: 06/30/09 Ah, the Wild West. Many tales have been told about the taming of the West, often in the movies. A lot of them have even been enjoyable. Not so many of these tales have been told in videogames. Maybe…

  • Review: Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Ghostbusters: The Video Game Genre: Third-Person Shooter Developer: Terminal Reality Publisher: Atari Release Date: 06/16/09

  • Diehard GameFAN Presents Not One…but TWO Overlord II Contests!

    Hey everyone, we here at Diehard GameFAN has teamed up with Codemasters, publishers of Overlord II, Overlord: Dark Legend and Overlord: Minions to bring you, our readers, the chance to win copies of your own Overlord video games. Both contests are quite different from the other, so feel free to participate in both. Contest #1:…

  • Review: Dawn of Discovery (Nintendo Wii)

    Dawn of Discovery Developer: Keen Entertainment Publisher: Ubisoft Genre: City Building, Real Time Strategy Release Date: 06/23/09

  • I Only Play Here Because It Beats Starving

    Everyone knows about World Football’s (that’s Soccer to you Americans) greatest transfers. Players like Cristiano Ronaldo moving to Real Madrid for the ridiculous amount of 132 Million US dollars and Real Madrid President Perez boasting about a transfer budget in the vicinity of 800 million Euros which means they can pretty much buy out buy…

  • Review: Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Retro PS2)

    Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Subsistence version) Publisher: Konami Computer Entertainment Japan Developer: Kojima Productions & Konami Computer Entertainment Japan Genre: Stealth-Action Original Release Dates: November 14, 2004 (NA) – December 16, 2004 (JP) Subsistence Release Dates: March 14, 2006 (NA) – December 22, 2005 (JP) As I’m sure anyone who reads this stuff…

  • Review: Memento Mori (PC)

    Memento Mori Publisher: Got Game Entertainment Developer: Centauri Production Genre: Adventure Release Date: 07/29/2009 “Memento Mori” is a Latin phrase meaning, “Remember you shall die/Remember that you are mortal.” Although this phrase was in reference to a great Roman battle, it has since come to mean painting Death in art thanks to Christian artists

  • Review: Flower, Sun and Rain (Nintendo DS)

    Flower, Sun and Rain Genre: Adventure Developer: Grasshopper Manufacture Publisher: Xseed Games Release Date: 06/15/09 Goichi Suda, AKA Suda51, is one of those developers who puts the artistic merit of the product ahead of everything else. As a result, many of the games coming from his development house, Grasshopper, are divisive products amongst gamers.

  • Review: Crimson Gem Saga (Sony PSP)

    Crimson Gem Saga Publisher: Atlus USA Developer: IRONNOS Genre: Turn Based RPG Release Date: 05/26/2009 I know, this is a little late, but no one agreed to do this review and I picked this up in my spare time when I had free moments between my normal workload here at DHGF.

  • Review: Magic: The Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Magic the Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers Developer: Wizards of the Coast / Stainless Games Publisher: XBOX LIVE Arcade Genre: Strategy & Simulation, Card & Board Release Date: 06/17/09 Ah nostalgia, you gotta love it. There was a time in my life about 15 years ago when my life was consumed by the addiction of…

  • Review: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Sony PS3)

    Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Developer: Luxoflux Publisher: Activision Genre: Action Release Date: 6/23/2009 So a few months ago I’d written up a brief summary of 25 years of Transformers games, and commented that we really hadn’t been given one that matched up to what most fans wanted out of a Transformers game (sorry Alex,…