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Posted February 4th 2010 by Will Davey.
That's right. Sega's new Sonic title, previously known as "Project Needlemouse," has finally been outed as Sonic the Hedgehog 4, a downloadable game coming in parts, the first being Episode 1. The game aims to take the series back to its roots, with new 3D graphics on a 2D plane, but in the same locations and the same gameplay Genesis fans know and love. Check the trailer in the rest of the post.
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Posted February 4th 2010 by Brandon Schmidt.
Survival horror games, by and large, have been an equal blend of shooter and scarefest. Lately, though, the Wii has seen a few deviations in the genre with the release of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and the upcoming Calling. These types of games retain an investigative element but have you react to conflict by running away rather than trying to put a shotgun blast through it. I recently had a chance to play a demo build of the game that, while needing some polish, definitely had me curious to see where the story would go and the means by which the developers would attempt to creep me out.
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Posted February 2nd 2010 by Adam Glasgow.
Most comics blow. Without any kind of guidance, even thinking about finding a comic to read that doesn't suck is a little overwhelming. Lucky for you I'm here to make the process easier! Every so often I pop in these parts and point out some books that are easy to find and accessible to even the most casual comic book reader. And most importantly, you have my personal guarantee that these comics don't suck.
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Posted January 31st 2010 by Oliver Chen.
I clocked over 200 hours playing Phantasy Star Online for the GameCube. Despite never actually going online due to the need for a monetary subscription and the lack of a GCN Modem, I spent plenty of time plumbing the mysteries of Ragol with my friends and family. So when Sega announced Ĝ (or Zero, depending on how willing you are to open up Character Map) with the promise of portability and free online play through Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, I hyped myself up for the game immediately. Were my expectations met? Only partially.
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Posted January 30th 2010 by Adam Glasgow.
I really hate reality television and generally refuse to watch it, but for whatever reason, reality shows involving cakes intrigue me. Whether it's Ace of Cakes or those Food Network cake baking challenge-deals, I'm always happy to waste a few hours of my life glued to the couch excitedly watching to see what these strange, obsessive people will do with fondant (for those not in the know, fondant is a special kind of frosting that's used mostly on fancy or wacky looking cakes). I blame this cake fixation for my initial interest in Fairytale Fights. The game's cartoony landscape looks intriguingly like a delicious frosted good. Despite its generally poor reception, I decided to give in and try it out. Unfortunately my cake fetish has, for the first time in my life, betrayed me.
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Posted January 26th 2010 by Frankie Aguilar.
When I was just a little tyke, walking around aimlessly in an arcade looking for something worth spending my hard earned quarters on, I came across a machine that would be the gold standard against which I would compare every other fighter. I was 10, and the game was X-Men vs. Street Fighter. This crossover brawler brought us, for the first time, a tag-team based fighter that would inspire so many other such outing for years to come. Capcom would go on to create the SNK vs. Capcom series due in large to the success of its Marvel vs. Capcom titles. These games were huge hits in arcades and on home consoles alike, and with their huge rosters and trademark Capcom polish, were the cream of the crop for 2D fighters. It was only a matter of time before Capcom found another IP to milk for another crossover game: this time it's the 1960s Japanese Animation company, Tatsunoko.
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Posted January 25th 2010 by Will Davey.
Darksiders is a game that is, for the most part, made up of ideas from other games. This action-adventure title's overall structure is scarily similar to that of The Legend of Zelda series, and you'll see plenty of similarites to the Devil May Cry series in the combat system. However, rather than flat-out copying them, Darksiders simply embraces these mechanics and places them in an environment and setting that you've never see them in before. It's for that reason that playing something that you already have in another game isn't a bad thing, but rather a modern take on a classic idea.
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Posted January 24th 2010 by Brandon Schmidt.
With 2010 well upon us and our thoughts turned to what the year will bring, it's a good time to look back and reflect on the year that was. While the releases of a number of highly-anticipated titles being pushed back was a recurring theme, 2009 still brought us a lot of strong efforts from both big developers and small.
The N-Philes crew with all our quirks, likes, and personal biases would like to present to you our top three individual choices for game of the year of 2009. As varied as both our staff and all of you fans are, there's sure to be something in here we can all agree on, right? ....Right?
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