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“There are a lot of films out this week, and a lot of them played at TIFF. In fact, we caught a few of them at TIFF after their public screenings, so let’s take a break from our usual format and give them proper capsule reviews!”
Capsule reviews of Blindness and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist; […]
October 3rd, 2008 : Reviews, Columns, Torontoist
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“Well now. The original Arkanoid was (and far more blatantly than Space Invaders) inspired by the original Breakout, only in this case the difference was - to put it charitably - “subtle”. That’s not to say that the things that Arkanoid added aren’t appreciable - moving enemies, power-ups and even bosses were all added to […]
July 27th, 2008 : Reviews, Eurogamer
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“Hey! Did you know that Space Invaders was originally inspired by Breakout? I didn’t - until I looked at Space Invader’s Wikipedia page in a desperate attempt to come up with an interesting fact to begin this review.
As it turns out, it’s not only a suitable theme for this intro, but I can use […]
July 26th, 2008 : Reviews, Eurogamer
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“Let’s admit it: last year we were incredibly spoiled when it came to good writing in games.
Ken Levine and his team at 2K came along and blew us away by using objectivist philosophy to craft a true work of “interactive fiction” with Bioshock at a point where we were still wondering if it was even […]
March 29th, 2008 : Reviews, The Globe and Mail
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“This week I watched as Mario, without mercy, beat Princess Peach around the head, body, and legs with a baseball bat until she could barely grip onto the edge of a dangerous precipice in the Mushroom Kingdom. The second she started to climb her way back up, without a moment’s hesitation, he whacked her so […]
March 15th, 2008 : Reviews, The Globe and Mail
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“It’s nostalgia that binds me to the Contra series. Since I first played ‘Gryzor’ in a caravan park’s amusement arcade in the late ’80s I’ve been a fan of the series, enjoying a great Amstrad CPC port, the brilliant 16-bit Probotector titles and then gritted my teeth through 13 years of terrible Contra games.
Thankfully, Contra […]
January 10th, 2008 : Reviews, Eurogamer
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“This is really a release made for, and by, Castlevania fans. If you don’t think much of the series, this isn’t going to change your mind. I wouldn’t think much of it either if it only included the remake, but the tip-top ports of the original Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Night bump […]
January 3rd, 2008 : Reviews, Eurogamer
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“If you were believe the opinions of many members of the forum for Twin Galaxies, the organisation that tracks videogame world records, and which plays a major role in King of Kong, King of Krap, as they so wittily call it, is the most egregious misrepresentation of the truth since, I don’t know, the Hitler […]
December 9th, 2007 : Reviews, Exclaim!
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“Let it never be said that the world of downloadable content is boring! Since October’s launch of import games on the Wii’s Virtual Console service it feels like the landscape has been constantly shifting: in November Sony opened an online PlayStation Store for PSP owners who don’t own a PS3 (er, most of them) and […]
December 8th, 2007 : Reviews, The Globe and Mail
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“If you’d feel better playing gun games with a controller that’s more like a gun (as some players like to play golf games with a controller that’s ‘more like a golf club’, though we still think they’re mental) Link’s Crossbow Training is a nice little extra but, whatever you do, don’t pick up a Zapper […]
November 26th, 2007 : Reviews, Eurogamer
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