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Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC – CFD! Review

The last few months have seen a flurry of activity in the Mass Effect universe, what with Mass Effect 2 finally becoming available to PS3 owners, as well as the formal announcement of the third and final installment in the seri...

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Rock Band 3 – Crush! Frag! Review!

When I was in fifth grade, I decided that I wanted to learn how to play a musical instrument, so I picked up a trumpet and joined band class. I’m afraid my curiosity didn’t last long — as I soon learned, instr...

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Metroid: Other M – Crush! Frag! Review!

Nintendo sure has taken some chances with the venerated Metroid series in recent years. When it was announced that Metroid Prime would be bringing the series into 3D — and that it was going to be developed by an American ...

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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Crush! Frag! Review!

In order to successfully reboot a classic video game franchise, you have to go back to the roots of the series, distilling the essence of what made those first games fun, and tossing out all the extra baggage that got heaped on...

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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Crush! Frag! Review!

Okay, here’s the deal: over a decade ago (which is like a century in computer and video game years), Blizzard Entertainment released a real time strategy game called StarCraft. It was met with glowing critical reviews and...

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Castlevania: Harmony of Despair – Crush! Frag! Review!

There are few game series with a longer and more distinguished pedigree than Castlevania. Many now-adult gamers fondly recall playing the first game on the original NES when they were but wee vampire hunters. Decades later, a s...

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Street Fighter and Tekken Form an Unlikely Rivalry

Comic-Con isn’t a video game convention, per se, but that hasn’t stopped the gaming industry from having an increasingly strong presence there every year. So it wasn’t surprising that Capcom had a panel at Com...

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Rock Band 3 Goes Live October 26th

Are you a music game junkie? Is your basement littered with colorful plastic instruments? Did you buy Lego Rock Band just so you could export the songs on the disc and inflate your master Rock Band song library (You know who yo...

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Tim Schafer Badmouths Bobby Kotick, Discusses New Games

Think you have problems with mega-publisher Activision and their outspoken CEO, Bobby Kotick? At least they didn’t decide not to produce your game and later sue you for the rights to the property. So it’s understand...

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