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Posted in Challenging Conventions Features

Challenging Conventions 2: The Enigma of Brutal Legend, the RTS.

What do you get when you mix real-time strategy, hack-and-slash action, role-playing game-style leveling, and spell casting? The answer is Brütal Legend, a game seemingly…

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Posted in Features Rumor Killers Top Ten

The Ten Worst Game Spinoffs

While the “Top Ten Best Game Spinoffs” highlighted games that brought something more to an existing game or series, there is the other side of…

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Posted in Features Rumor Killers

Rumor Killers: Phoenix Wright on the Wii, A New Smash TV, and Instruments by Dhani?

Phoenix Wright heading to the Wii? It looks like those pesky age-ratings boards, in their never-ending and legally required quest to slap arbitrary age ratings…

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Posted in Another Look Features

The Press’ Double Standard for Violence in Media

Last week, a now infamous video of controversial Modern Warfare 2 footage was leaked. It showed that it would be possible in a portion of…

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Posted in Another Look Features

Spoony Bard 5: BioWare’s Design Iteration Through Tropes

If you have ever played one of the other BioWare RPG games, like Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic, or Mass Effect, Dragon Age…

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Posted in Another Look Features

Playing Frankenstein With Survival Horror

If there is one thing we all love, it is being so scared that our sleep pattern is messed up for a week. While video…

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