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Should more games let you cheat your way through them?
Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge released for Wii U this past November and just arrived in Europe earlier this month. This revamp of the Xbox 360/PS3 game refurbishes a number of that version’s faults—namely, a treacherous level of challenge—but also balances this difficulty with newly-implemented touch
Will banning "region-locking" bring world peace?
‘We the People’ is a section of the White House’s official web presence that allows for the public to make their demands heard. One vocal and prolific contributor to popular games forum NeoGaf, Cheesemeister, has begun a petition to ban region-locking in games, movies and other software. So what’s a
The best response to Next-Gen rumors? Ironic juvenile derision.
Cue the whispering voices and film noir soundtrack. “Developer sources” have told VG24/7 that the next Playstation will be 50% more powerful than the next Xbox. Oh, is that right? The report goes on to say, While PS4 will have greater grunt than [Xbox] 720, however, the Microsoft machine has signifi
Happy MLK Day. We’ll see you tomorrow.
Celebrate the life of a great man with friends and family. Normal posting will resume tomorrow.
This mutant Gameboy can play all Nintendo games from 16 bits down
The Gameboo is a bit of maker brilliance. The hero who runs Casing the Joint, eight months ago, set out on a project to rip out the viscera of an old Gameboy and rebuild it, stronger and faster. The new guts come from a Dingoo Technologies A330, a handheld system that supports a variety of emulators
