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Moon Diver – CFD! Review

Moon Diver takes me back. Back to a time of three-button controllers, and 8-meg cartridges. It so reminds me of those old 16 bit games, and how freaking hard they were. A side-scroller, Moon Diver pays homage to classics like S...

by Kristopher Kosie

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Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet – Hands-On Preview

It’s been two years since the first stunning announcement trailer revealed Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet to an unsuspecting gaming audience. Then one year ago, following the announcement of the game’s eventual rele...

by Rob Thomas

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Outland – CFD! Review

Where to begin? We previewed Outland a while back, and it left a very strong first impression. The steady progression into new areas and acquisition of new abilities, coupled with the splendid art style and animation got plenty...

by Rob Rich

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PAX East 2011: Trenched – Hands-On Preview

Alternate history war games, amirite? They’ve been lurking in the corners of our game retailers and video stores pretty much since the early days of interactive entertainment. Some involve legitimately possible branches i...

by Rob Rich

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PAX East 2011: Fallen Frontier – Hands-On Preview

Not too long ago, the world found out that a few folks from Bungie set off to do their own thing. Not too long ago, their budding company, Moonshot Games, announced their first title: Fallen Frontier. Not too long ago, I got to...

by Rob Rich

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The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile – CFD! Review

The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai was somewhat of a popular XBLA title when it came out back in ’09, from what I remember. I also remember that I just didn’t find it all that interesting. Sure, it looked neat, had solid ...

by Rob Rich

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PAX East 2011: BattleBlock Theater – Hands-On Preview

The Behemoth is one of the few developers I can think of with such a strong focus on cooperative games. Sure, the original Alien Hominid was a single player affair, but from then on it seemed as though they were dead-set on cre...

by Rob Rich

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Torchlight (XBLA) – CFD! Review

Chances are you’re at least familiar with Torchlight. Ever since its release on PC some time ago it’s been generally referred to as the pseudo-Diablo everyone’s been playing while they wait for Diablo III. And...

by Rob Rich

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Enjoy Some BurgerTime HD – Courtesy Of MonkeyPaw Games

MonkeyPaw Games (those epic gentlemen behind all the Japanese PSOne Classic imports on PSN) have just announced today that they’re going to try their hand at something new: a retro revival. Not just any revival, a BurgerT...

by Rob Rich

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