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FTC Ruling Might Affect Video Game Reviews
1:40PM Owen Good | A unanimous ruling by the Federal Trade Commission today would update truth-in-advertising language to require the disclosure of “material connections”—hint, hint “cash or an in-kind payment to review a product”—by the recipient of such considerations. More »
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12:30PM Michael McWhertor | The long promised PlayStation Portable entry in Polyphony Digital’s Gran Turismo series has finally arrived, putting the essence of the “Real Driving Simulator” in your pocket. More »
Gran Turismo PSP Review: Steady As A Pace Car
12:30PM Michael McWhertor | The long promised PlayStation Portable entry in Polyphony Digital’s Gran Turismo series has finally arrived, putting the essence of the “Real Driving Simulator” in your pocket. More »
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Spyborgs Review: Not-So-Heavy Metal
8:20AM Mike Fahey | Part man. Part machine. All beat-em up. This is Capcom’s Spyborgs for the Nintendo Wii. More »
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NHL 2K10 Review: Thin-Ice Capades
9:00AM Owen Good | The National Hockey League dropped the puck on a new season Thursday night, turning sports fans’ thoughts to ice — and to hard hitting, fast-paced one-timer-from-the-slot action, qualities that 2K’s NHL title can certainly supply on a console. More »
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MySims Agents Review: Sherlock Didn’t Have To Deal With This
5:30AM AJ Glasser | Sure, England’s famous fictional detective had a cocaine addiction, but Sherlock Holmes never had to put up with his mobile phone going off every fifteen seconds. More »
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4:30AM Luke Plunkett | Last year, EA Sports’ FIFA finally managed to surpass long-time nemesis Pro Evo and emerge as the number one football game in the world, both critically and commercially. Let’s see what it’s managed to do in the 12 months since. More »
FIFA 10 Review: 30-Yard Screamer
4:30AM Luke Plunkett | Last year, EA Sports’ FIFA finally managed to surpass long-time nemesis Pro Evo and emerge as the number one football game in the world, both critically and commercially. Let’s see what it’s managed to do in the 12 months since. More »
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PSP: Attack Of The Minis
4:00AM Brian Crecente | A mammoth update hit the Playstation Store early this morning, bringing with it more than 100 downloadable games. Included in the collection of classics and new full-blown titles were more than a half-dozen PSP Minis. More »
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3:40AM Stephen Totilo | Surprising in more good ways than bad, Dead Space Extraction is the Wii Sports Tennis of so-called hardcore games on the Wii. More »
Dead Space Extraction Review: Frighteningly Good
3:40AM Stephen Totilo | Surprising in more good ways than bad, Dead Space Extraction is the Wii Sports Tennis of so-called hardcore games on the Wii. More »
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Madden iPhone Micro-Review: The Biggest Small-Time Football
7:20AM Owen Good | EA Sports’ Madden franchise didn’t hit the iPhone until the NFL’s first week, trailing Gameloft’s NFL 2010 by a month. Does it deliver what long-time fans should expect? Or is it just a big-name brand’s toehold on a new platform? More »
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7:00AM Stephen Totilo | My mother loves playing Zuma. So does my mother-in-law. While I thought that the plink-plunk-plink-plunk of their favourite game wasn’t for me, I discovered that the sequel might actually be a hardcore gamers’ kind of game, for better and worse. More »
Zuma’s Revenge Micro-Review: Bridging Mum And Son Gap
7:00AM Stephen Totilo | My mother loves playing Zuma. So does my mother-in-law. While I thought that the plink-plunk-plink-plunk of their favourite game wasn’t for me, I discovered that the sequel might actually be a hardcore gamers’ kind of game, for better and worse. More » 
