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New Catherine Screens Reveal Secret Sheep Techniques?

Okay, so I admit, we’ve been criminally lax about providing coverage for Catherine, Atlus’ upcoming erotic puzzle-platforming adventure (a category I think it has more or less cornered). Personally speaking, this ga...

by Rob Thomas

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Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition – Crush! Frag! Review!

Beautiful and bizarre. Dreamlike and disturbing. Gorgeous and grotesque. All of these adjectives and more describe the sweet alien fruits of Chilean development house ACE Team’s labors. Indeed, it may sound like cheap, bo...

by Rob Thomas

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Persona 3 Portable – Crush! Frag! Review!

It’s fairly common knowledge that the original Persona 3 was kind of a big deal. The idea of merging a “dating sim” with the typical grind-fest everyone associates with JRPGs was met with trepidation from virt...

by Rob Rich

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Trauma Team – Crush! Frag! Review!

Releasing only a few months after the 2004 launch of the Nintendo DS, Trauma Center: Under the Knife was one of the earliest and most successful games designed almost entirely to suit the handheld’s fresh interface. Set in th...

by Nate Andrews

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Hexyz Force – Crush! Frag! Review!

Some people might argue that video games are comprised of only mindless violence; presenting gruff, masculine protagonists with muscles on top of their muscles and mowing down hordes of enemies with guns coming out of their ear...

by Beki Sutcliffe

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Demon’s Souls Is $30. No More Excuses.

There was this game, see? And this game, it was magnificent. You got to wander through these dark caves and old castles with nothing but curiosity and a few scribblings on the floor to guide you. You also died alot. Yeah, it wa...

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Persona 3 Portable – Crush! Frag! Preview!

Playing the original Persona 3 back on the PS2 was a joy, but one I was never able to finish. My inability to finish RPGs quickly coupled with the release of Persona 3 FES trapped me in a sort of Persona Purgatory. In short, it...

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3D Dot Game Heroes – Crush! Frag! Review!

It’s no secret that 3D Dot Game Heroes openly apes The Legend of Zelda. I’m not going to try and refute that because it’d be just as pointless as claiming the sky is plaid. So yes, Atlus’ latest does ind...

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Hexyz Force – Crush! Frag! Preview!

If you happen to be the type of person whose brain shuts down at the very mention of “traditional RPG”, then chances are you’d scroll past a game like Hexyz Force without so much as a cursory glance. You could har...

by Nate Andrews

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