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New Silent Hill: Downpour Screens Seem Kinda Familiar

Konami released a new batch of screenshots today for the upcoming Silent Hill: Downpour today and I dunno if it’s just me, but something seems vaguely familiar here. Maybe it’s just the mountains and trees and all t...

by Rob Thomas

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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...

by John DeLuca

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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...

by John DeLuca

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E3 2010: Metal Gear Solid: Rising Gets Slice-tacular New Trailer, Watermelons!

In stunning fashion, Microsoft’s E3 presser kicked off with an extended look at Call of Duty: Black Ops, followed by Hideo Kojima’s presentation of Metal Gear Solid: Rising, the Raiden-enabled third-person action title by K...

by Sage Knox

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Hard Corps: Uprising Footage Is Unsurprisingly Sexy

In case you haven’t heard, we’re getting a new Contra. Kind of. You see, Konami has decided to give Arc System Works (of Guilty Gear fame) the task of bringing us a 2D side-scrolling shooter that shares everything f...

by Rob Rich

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E3 Returns for 2010 and CFD! is There! (…Sort of)

Another Summer is upon us and along with the customary triple shot of shorts, suntan lotion and stifling heat comes yet another alliterative hat-trick in the form of the video game industry’s biggest trade show: the Elect...

by Rob Thomas

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Rocket Knight – Crush! Frag! Review!

Have you ever looked back at your childhood video game collection and thought: “Where the hell did I get that game from?” That one random game with no connection to any of your favorite series. Was it a gift from an estrang...

by Scott Thompson

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Win Rocket Knight For PSN – Crush! Swag! Destroy!

What’s this? Another giveaway? Of course it is! Because CFD! loves you all just that much. And this time around, we’ve got actual games up for grabs – specifically Konami’s recent 2.5D updating of a much...

by Rob Thomas

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Akira Yamaoka Departs Konami After 16 Years

For those who hadn’t heard, it seems that after close to two decades of employment, Akira Yamaoka is leaving Konami for as-yet unknown pastures; game music blog Original Sound Version posted last week that they had receiv...

by Rob Thomas

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