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Archive - Jan 2010 Throw Bowling from Wii Sports, Mario Kart-style weapons, and a handful
of aliens and monsters into a blender, and you get...No! WAIT! NOT
LITERALLY! STOP! OH, THE HUMANITY!!!read more »
Tell you what - go read my review of Guitar Hero 5. Now pretend that I said all that stuff about a game that featured a lot of Van Halen songs, and skip the parts about DLC and the DS. Yay! Review done! Because this is basically a Van Halen-heavy track pack. So what do we have to talk about? The songs and their lyrics! read more »  Which
is more important in a game, play mechanics or graphic quality? The
Final Fantasy series has excelled since Final Fantasy VII in graphics
that push each successive console's capabilities, especially in its
cutscenes, but Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Crystal Bearers breaks
through the weakness of its predecessors by merging the beauty of its
cutscenes with the game engine, creating a completely seamless game
play experience.read more »
 The video game industry has become huge, a multi-billion dollar
industry, far from the early days of Pong and Pac-Man. As it has
blossomed, it has developed its own trends and set its own records. To
commemorate the industry's various accomplishments, the Guinness Book
of World Records has published a specific volume just for video games,
the Guinness World Records 2010 Gamer's Edition.read more »
 The MX vs. ATV series has been the series by which all other motocross
games are judged, but each new rendition doesn't always step up from
the previous rendition, so how does this version measure up?read more »
 Broken crayons are ubiquitous in most households with children or
grandchildren. Why throw them out when you can reuse them? That's the
idea behind the Crayola Crayon Maker. Combine broken crayons into a
tray, heat with a light bulb (Easy Bake Oven-style), and pour the
melted wax into a mold. That's pretty much all there is to it.read more »
Playmobil Pirates is a product that doesn’t seem to have a clear idea of what it wants to be. It’s based on the popular “imaginative play” figures that are aimed at younger children. The gameplay comes off as a simplified, linear version of Sid Meier’s Pirates. The content (which earned it an E10+ rating) veers into the adolescent periodically. read more »
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Sky Crawlers - Innocent Aces is a pretty game. And parts of the music make me wish I had a better sound system at home to play it on. But some clunky design choices outside of the actual gameplay prevent me from giving it an enthusiastic recommendation. 
Licensed games typically have a well-earned reputation for being pretty bad. Normally, I would have looked at this, seen that it was based on a James Patterson book, and walked away, shaking my head. And to be honest, the budget price wouldn't have boosted my curiosity either. I'd have put it back on the shelf and walked away... and missed out on the most fun I've had on the DS in months. It's as though someone read my mind while I was asleep, and created a game targeted directly at all my sweet spots. 
What can I say about Guitar Hero: Van Halen? Hmmmm... Well, we didn't know we'd gotten a copy until we'd come back from visiting family over the holidays? Ummmm... it's Guitar Hero?
