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About "Critical Kate" Willaert

Born on the same day as the Famicom, "Critical Kate" has been playing videogames since the NES days. She enjoys a good story, prefers arcade-style to simulators, and doesn't understand the appeal of recreational frustration. You don't want to run into her in the Facility with Remote Mines.
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BloodRayne: Betrayal

If you’re a gamer who longs for the days of classic Nintendo hack-and-slash platformers, a time when gameplay didn’t involve so much hand-holding—when figuring out the right way to defeat …
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Top 20 Games Nintendo Wouldn’t Release In The US
13 years ago

Top 20 Games Nintendo Wouldn’t Release In The US

Xenoblade Chronicles. The Last Story. Pandora’s Tower. Three games with one thing in common: Nintendo has the worldwide publishing rights, but won’t release them in the US. A popular story …
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Rock Of Ages

Sisphyus has had enough. The mythological character famously destined to roll a boulder uphill for eternity has finally gotten fed up, and has decided to aim his boulder right down …
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Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor

I was searching for a third DS game for a “Buy Two, Get One Free” sale, when James suggested Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor. I wasn’t feeling overly enthusiastic about …
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Is It Worth $169?: The Nintendo 3DS Review

Now that the Nintendo 3DS has dropped in price to $169, if you don’t already own one, you might have wondered recently: is there anything that makes this handheld worth …
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Brink’s Agents Of Change: Too Little, Too Late?

Like Bizarre Creation’s Blur, Brink is a fun yet flawed multiplayer game that was released with major online connection problems, instantly crippling its chances of success.

But where the …
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Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet

I don’t know about you, but the first time I saw Samus Aran exit her ship at the beginning of Super Metroid, I hoped I’d get to fly it at …
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Dead Block

Publisher: Digital Reality / Developer: Candygun Games / Platform: PSN, XBLA

Do you like Plants Vs. Zombies, but wish it contained slightly less plants? Or wish Left 4 Dead had a more cartoony, retro Team Fortress 2 aesthetic? Then chances are Dead Block will be right up your (zombie-filled) alley. With a story that’s equal parts ’50s horror and Reefer Madness-style campy propaganda, Dead Block has the distinction of being possibly the first ever third-person tower defense survival horror scavenger hunt zombie game. Read More

Ms. Splosion Man

I don’t envy Twisted Pixel. Putting so much work into developing what was sure to be 2011’s Sexist Game of The Year, only to watch Duke Nukem Forever swoop right …
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Trailer Analysis: Dead Island
13 years ago

Trailer Analysis: Dead Island

Axis Animation’s trailer for Deep Silver’s Dead Island accomplished a surprising feat: it introduced a brand new property (and one saddled with a fairly generic title, at that), without …
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