Review – BIT.TRIP BEAT (PC)
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Review – BIT.TRIP BEAT (PC)

Gaijin Games |  Nov 2nd, 2010 What do you get when you take the simplicity of Pong, a game that involves hitting small square “balls” with a rectangular paddle, and add in some musical aspects, a bit of plot, and ramp up the play mechanics beyond a 2 player game of tennis?  Whatever it would be, it’s probably pretty close to BIT.TRIP BEAT. Ok, really the only thing they really share in common is hitting balls with paddles and retro styling. The general premise here is that you must deflect a series of rhythmic balls back with your paddle.  They…
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Review – Din’s Curse (PC)

Note, This review originally appeared on DieHardGame Fan and this game was received for free as a review copy. Din’s Curse: Demon WarDeveloper: Soldak Entertainment:Publisher: Soldak entertainmentGenre: RPGRelease Date: February 23rd, 2011 Din’s Curse is a Hack’n’Slash style RPG in the vein of Diablo or Icewind Dale.  Using a random dungeon generator and real time combat and action, it is a more fast paced Role Playing experience than the more traditional turn based and story driven RPG.  Each play through is, by design, different than the previous, though there will be some similar basic ideas and events.  Din’s Curse is…
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Review – Shatter (PC)

Sidhe | March 15th, 2011 I seem to be picking up a lot on Breakout clones lately.  Or maybe it’s just games that at the core are remakes of older classics I’ve been hitting a lot lately.  I suppose it’s an easy gimmick, take something people like, flashy it up and add a new gimmick or two, then throw it out into the world.  I’m not really complaining or anything but Shatter, like BIT.TRIP BEAT and Meteor, has it’s core in the game Breakout. It adds a few gimmicks to help keep it fresh at least. It’s kind of hard…
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Review – Poker Night at the Inventory (PC)

Telltale Games | Nov 22, 2010 So Telltale games, makers of something like 90% of the Adventure games on the market (maybe) had an interesting idea. Why not take the idea of computer poker, and instead of playing against made up kooky PC characters you don’t recognizes, why not throw in a cast of known characters from popular games and nerd sites. Thus, you end up with Poker Night at the Inventory. You play poker against Tycho from Penny-Arcade, The Heavy, of Team Fortress 2 Fame, Telltale’s defacto mascot, Max, from the Sam & max series, and Strong Bad from the…
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Review – Movie – Julie & Julia

2009 – Meryl Streep, Amy Adams So, there aren’t really too many movies about cooking.  There’s probably others but the only other one I can think of off the top of my head is Ratatouille.  If you haven’t figured out yet based on the cooking them of this film and the title containing the name Julia, the movie is about Julia Child. It’s also a movie about some woman named Julie Powell. I say also because this film is essentially two movies in one spliced together in 10 minute segments.  This is possibly the movie’s biggest drawback.  The plot of…
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Review – Nintendo Game & Watch Collection (NDS)

I posted a photo of this game once I finally managed to acquire it to Flickr and it received the comment question “Is it worth it?”.  You see, Game & Watch isn’t your standard Nintendo DS game, it can only be acquired (in the US) through the Club Nintendo Points promotional system.  If you’re unfamiliar with how this works, most Nintendo titles on DS and Wii comes with little slips that include a code.  When you register the game on the Club Nintendo website, you get points.  I’m not positive but I think it’s something like 40 points per game. …
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Review – Movie – Coraline

It’s a little hard to describe this movie without mentioning Alice in Wonderland.  So I’ll just get it out of the way.  This is more or less Alice in Wonderland meets Nightmare Before Christmas.  Not surprising on the latter part since it’s done by the same guy who did Nightmare Before Christmas. With this comparison out of the way, the genre that best describes it would be “Children’s horror” I suppose.  It’s actually rather creepy in many parts, especially in the final third or so of the film.  It’s also the final third where things feel like they fall apart…