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Ninja Gaiden 3
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A once-imaginative series succumbs to fatigue.
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Ridge Racer
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The damage isn’t limited to the onscreen action in this troubled racing game.
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Journey
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A beautiful game doubles as a spiritual pilgrimage.
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Silent Hill: Downpour
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A return trip to Silent Hill finds the town hasn’t kept up with the times.
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Mass Effect 3
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To the stars: The second Mass Effect sequel puts would-be blockbuster movies to shame.
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SSX
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A classic snowboarding game gets a worthy, if not always better, update.
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Binary Domain
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See robot? Kill robot.
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Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2
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Remember part one? Get ready for déjà vu.
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Uncharted: Golden Abyss
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Nathan Drake: The Early Years.
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Asura’s Wrath
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Some experiments don’t turn out that well.
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PlayStation Vita
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Sony supplies a solid, though familiar, platform for handheld fun.
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PlayStation Vita Launch Games
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The Vita's launch lineup is nothing if not predictable.
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Twisted Metal
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The latest version of the car combat staples offers more than just mindless destruction, though there’s plenty of that too.
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The Darkness II
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Light-averse tentacle creatures need love too.
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Resident Evil: Revelations
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Survival horror for 3D fans on the go.
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Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning
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You might have played this sort of game before but this is a good excuse to play it again.
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SoulCalibur V
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A fighting franchise smooths out the action and ramps up the excitement.
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Final Fantasy XIII-2
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The lastest Final Fantasy chapter is dopey, beautiful, and impossible to resist.
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Scarygirl
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A graphic-novel-derived game gets the look right, but not the gameplay.
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Amy
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A survival horror game tests players’ patience.
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NFL Blitz
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A skewed take on football takes the sport to silly x-tremes.
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Mighty Switch Force
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A puzzle platformer lets players shift reality.
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Star Wars: The Old Republic
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Star Wars gets an MMO to call its own.
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The Adventures Of Tintin
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A game fails to do right by a venerable hero
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Trine 2
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Physics and spellcasting go side by side in this sequel.
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Where Is My Heart?
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A strange game asks players to take its title literally.
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Mario Kart 7
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Mario Kart hasn’t changed much, but that’s okay.
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Fortune Street
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Don’t call it Monopoly.
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King Of Fighters XIII
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Things don’t change much the 13th time around for a venerable fighting franchise.
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Corpse Party
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The title’s scary. The game’s even scarier (for a while).
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Rayman Origins
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How to out-Mario Mario.
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Need For Speed: The Run
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A coast-to-coast racing game takes too many shortcuts.
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The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword
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The latest Zelda installment combines excitement and heart.
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Saints Row: The Third
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An open-world crime game steps out of the GTA shadow.
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Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
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A franchise lurches forward.
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