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Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD Review

I can't track these changes.

It almost hurts to write that it’s been 13 years since Sega released Banana Blitz back on the Wii. At the time, I know I couldn’t have been more excited that we were about to see a Monkey Ball game that leveraged the motion capabilities of Nintendo’s hit system. However, when it finally released, I wasn’t thrilled with the results. Rather than leveraging the Wii remote in its horizontal orientation, like many other motion-centric games had, it forced you to point forward and contort your arm in awkward ways to tilt the stage. I quickly shelved the game and wrote it off as a failure. I suspect I wasn’t the only one, because after all these years Sega has released an HD remaster of the game leveraging more standard console controls using the analog stick. Unfortunately, the transition has introduced level design changes that bring things to a degree of difficulty that I’ve found to be insurmountable.

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Wolf Fang Review

One of the less mediocre games to come from Data East.

A few months back, Monkey Paws Games began a 6-week campaign to bring several import games to the US.  Among them was Wolf Fang, released this past February on PSN.  Originally released by Data East in 1991 as the arcade sequel to Vapor Trail (Kugah in Japan), Wolf Fang is a game that heavily borrows from the many shoot ‘em ups that came before it.  If you’ve ever played a shooter that involved Vulcan spread shots, miniature helper drones, and anime-inspired character designs, then this game will be very familiar territory for you. On their own, the gameplay elements could be written off as merely generic. But together they form a surprisingly respectable game.

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Backloggers Anonymous Enslaved Part 2

No longer enslaved to Enslaved!

Final thoughts: Pigsy is a pig, Monkey is kinda like a monkey, and Trip is... kinda hot. What, you want to know more? Well listen to the 'cast!

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Backloggers Anonymous Darksiders Part 3

We're done!

I'm gonna keep this brief because frankly, I'm not feeling so great. We finished Darksiders. We had more fun talking about it than we did with the back half of the game. We get into some pretty weird things to talk about like sound effects and... horse physics. Maybe my fever started earlier than I thought.

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Bomb Monkey - Trailer

Available now as an eShop title on the Nintendo 3DS for $4.99.

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Ron Gilbert's Mystery Title is The Cave

A talking cave? Really? That's awesome!

With the release of a “mystery” screenshot the other day, Sega essentially let the cat out of the bag and practically told the world that they would be publishing Ron Gilbert’s pet project being developed at Double Fine.  Today Sega and Double Fine came straight out and confirmed that Ron Gilbert’s secret project, titled The Cave, will be published by Sega in early 2013.

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Sega Publishing Ron Gilbert's Mystery Title?

Sega's mystery photo reveals quite a bit.

Ron Gilbert, the man behind Monkey Island, has been working on something for Double Fine for a bit now.  The game is said to be the studio’s next release, but we’ve gotten little information on it beside a few character portraits.  Today Sega dropped a hint that may lead to much more info coming sooner than later.

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Bomb Monkey Swinging onto 3DS eShop

A quick tweet and a website has revealed this title's existence.

Renegade Kid, the developer behind Mutant Mudds, has teased their new game, Bomb Monkey. Jools Watsham, co-founder of the studio, released the following tweet yesterday.

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New Xbox 360 Bundles Announced

Both include two games and 3 months of Xbox Live.

Larry Hyrb announced yesterday two new Xbox 360 bundles for this holiday season. Both will be available in the coming weeks.

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Toshihiro Nagoshi of Sega Working on Something New

The head of R&D has something new up his sleeve.

At the Tokyo Game Show during a panel, Toshihiro Nagoshi revealed that aside from the latest Yakuza title, he is working on something new.

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