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Familiarity be damned, this game feels like a deliberate labor of love from Retro Studios.

Does Strider really do anything new? Not really.

My one recommendation: take your time...enjoy a little bit of the tale and keep it in the background as a great break from real life.

Garden Warfare is fun, and the time I've spent with it so far has been among the best on the Xbox One.

Matt Stone and Trey Parker have a video game to be proud of, even if it's not perfect.

Yoshi’s New Island is amazing from beginning to charming end. Don’t hesitate for a second to buy it folks, unless you hate smiling.

It isn't the completely revolutionary game changer some thought it would be, but it's certainly a huge shot in the arm for the genre.

If Dark Souls II can't even bother to let me experiment, practice, and enjoy at my own leisure, why should I bother with it?

Aside from some skinned knees earned by stumbles through the story, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is a great starting point for this generation's big Metal Gear Solid experience. I'm more excited than I might've been otherwise for The Phantom Pain. With that in mind, it would be a lie if I didn't say that The Phantom Pain, appropriately named in this case, haunts every corner of this game. Everything feels like a taste of what is to come. Call it a demo or a prologue, it isn't a full game.

I'm glad I had my PlayStation in time, because inFamous: Second Son might be the first platform exclusive to make the system worth buying.

Mario Golf: World Tour is easily the best sporting effort from Camelot in a long time.

A solid core overcomes the aesthetic missteps.

Parts of the game don't work, but they don't take away from what it's trying to do.

Nintendo's created a heck of a Mario Kart game that's great for fans and newcomers alike. It's what this series should be.

Machine Games mixed an old school shooter with interesting, well-written characters to make something that adds up to more than the sum of its parts.

The whole package, at $9.99, is a good deal for Wii U owners looking to dive into a puzzle game. Pushmo World works on that level.

Watch_Dogs was supposed to be the chosen one, but it's neither the coming of the new generation nor a particularly good game.

Everything Shovel Knight does, it does incredibly well. It's balanced enough so that both old-timers and newcomers can find something to enjoy, and never once does it falter in its mission of paying tribute to classics.

The soundtrack and gameplay come together to give what initially seems like a small package a lot of replay value.

As far as the new generation of NHL 15 is concerned, this package isn't nearly strong or complete enough to justify an immediate purchase.