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Bermuda Triangle: Saving the Coral provides a mildly interesting diversion for the budget-minded DS gamer. The game uses crystal tropical seas and colorful coral reefs as the setting for a familiar “match three” mechanic. read more »
 Innovation in video games is rare, especially in a tight economy, but
Fret Nice takes the two necessary steps into innovation while still
remaining safe: it's an XBLA game (inexpensive distribution and low
development budget), and it combines two successful genres: rhythm
(specifically guitar) and platform games.read more »
For most of our married life my wife and I have owned cockatiels including one specimen named Ender who greeted my wife with a lecherous wolf-whistle every morning. Our current feathered companion goes by the name of Bingley and spends much of his time whistling the theme to The Andy Griffith Show. read more »
When the brother Miller released the original Myst in 1993 they probably had no idea it would spawn a game franchise that would eventually include four more games, a short-lived on-line version, several novels and a handful of remakes of the original game. 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 »  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 »
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?
